New Documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold Now Streaming on Netflix

Quick note: Net­flix just launched a new doc­u­men­tary Joan Did­ion: The Cen­ter Will Not Hold. It’s a por­trait (nat­u­ral­ly) of the now 82-year-old lit­er­ary icon, Joan Did­ion, that’s direct­ed by her own nephew Grif­fin Dunne. If you have a Net­flix account, you can start stream­ing the 90 minute doc­u­men­tary here. If you don’t, you could always sign up for Net­flix’s 30-day free tri­al.

If you read the reviews of the film (at the New York­er, New York Times, NPR, etc), you’ll hear echoes of what God­frey Cheshire has to say over at RogerEbert.com:

A fond and appre­cia­tive por­trait of one of Amer­i­can journalism’s super­stars, “Joan Did­ion: The Cen­ter Will Not Hold” may not con­tain any rev­e­la­tions that will sur­prise those who’ve fol­lowed Didion’s elo­quent, often auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal writ­ing over the years. But the fact that it was made by her nephew, actor/filmmaker Grif­fin Dunne, gives it a warmth and inti­ma­cy that might not have graced a more stan­dard doc­u­men­tary.

Again, you can start stream­ing here…

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