* ”Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker” (2001)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Caryn James |date=May 13, 2001 |title=Neighborhood Report: CRITIC’S VIEW; How The New Yorker Took Wing In Its Larval Years With Ross |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/nyregion/neighborhood-report-critic-s-view-new-yorker-took-wing-its-larval-years-with.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119053537/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/nyregion/neighborhood-report-critic-s-view-new-yorker-took-wing-its-larval-years-with.html |archive-date=January 19, 2012}}</ref><ref>Quick Vids by Gary Handman, [[American Libraries]], May 2006.</ref>
* ”Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker” (2001)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Caryn James |date=May 13, 2001 |title=Neighborhood Report: CRITIC’S VIEW; How The New Yorker Took Wing In Its Larval Years With Ross |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/nyregion/neighborhood-report-critic-s-view-new-yorker-took-wing-its-larval-years-with.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 24, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119053537/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/nyregion/neighborhood-report-critic-s-view-new-yorker-took-wing-its-larval-years-with.html |archive-date=January 19, 2012}}</ref><ref>Quick Vids by Gary Handman, [[American Libraries]], May 2006.</ref>
* ”Very Semi-Serious” (2015)
* ”Very Semi-Serious” (2015)
* ”[[The New Yorker at 100]]” (2025), a documentary about the magazine’s centenary
* Wes Anderson’s ”[[The French Dispatch]]” (2021) is an overt homage to the magazine;<ref>{{Cite magazine | url = https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/the-new-yorker-writers-and-editors-who-inspired-the-french-dispatch | title = The New Yorker Writers and Editors Who Inspired The French Dispatch | last = Overbey | first = Erin | magazine = The New Yorker | date = September 24, 2021 | access-date = February 14, 2024 | archive-date = February 14, 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240214154916/https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/the-new-yorker-writers-and-editors-who-inspired-the-french-dispatch | url-status = live }}</ref> the film consists of several long-form “stories”, all in the style of various ”New Yorker” contributors.
* Wes Anderson’s ”[[The French Dispatch]]” (2021) is an overt homage to the magazine;<ref>{{Cite magazine | url = https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/the-new-yorker-writers-and-editors-who-inspired-the-french-dispatch | title = The New Yorker Writers and Editors Who Inspired The French Dispatch | last = Overbey | first = Erin | magazine = The New Yorker | date = September 24, 2021 | access-date = February 14, 2024 | archive-date = February 14, 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240214154916/https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/the-new-yorker-writers-and-editors-who-inspired-the-french-dispatch | url-status = live }}</ref> the film consists of several long-form “stories”, all in the style of various ”New Yorker” contributors.
* Upcoming [[Marshall Curry]] documentary about the magazine’s centenary (2025)<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Deadline |last=Grobar |first=Matt |title=New Yorker Centennial Doc From EP Judd Apatow Heading To Netflix |url=https://deadline.com/2025/01/new-yorker-centennial-doc-judd-apatow-netflix-1236266145/ |access-date=July 30, 2025 |date=January 24, 2025}}</ref>
===Films based on ”New Yorker” articles===
===Films based on ”New Yorker” articles===
The New Yorker in film
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The New Yorker magazine and its history have served as the source of inspiration for multiple films. Additionally, fiction and nonfiction pieces appearing in the magazine have been regularly adapted for the big screen.
Films about The New Yorker
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In Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, a film about the Algonquin Round Table starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker, Sam Robards portrays founding editor Harold Ross trying to drum up support for his fledgling publication.
The magazine’s former editor, William Shawn, is portrayed in Capote (2005), Infamous (2006), and Hannah Arendt (2012).
The 2015 documentary Very Semi-Serious, directed by Leah Wolchok and produced by Wolchok and Davina Pardo (Redora Films), presents a behind-the-scenes look at the cartoons of The New Yorker.[1]
List of films about The New Yorker
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Films based on New Yorker articles
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Multiple notable films have been directly adapted from articles appearing in The New Yorker, including Brokeback Mountain (2005), an adaptation of the short story by Annie Proulx that appeared in the October 13, 1997, issue[5]; Michael Cunningham‘s The Hours, which was excerpted in The New Yorker before becoming the film that garnered the 2002 Best Actress Academy Award for Nicole Kidman[6]; and Adaptation (2002), which Charlie Kaufman based on Susan Orlean‘s The Orchid Thief novel, itself adapted from a New Yorker article.[7]
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| 2026 | Coyote v. Acme | Dave Green | “Coyote v. Acme,” by Ian Frazier; February 26, 1990[8] |
| 2022 | Spiderhead | Joseph Kosinski | “Escape from Spiderhead,” by George Saunders; December 20 & 27, 2010[9] |
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Flash of Genius (2008), based on a true account of the invention of the intermittent windshield wiper by John Seabrook; Away from Her, adapted from Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain”, which debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival; The Namesake (2007), similarly based on Jhumpa Lahiri‘s novel, which originated as a short story in the magazine; The Bridge (2006), based on Tad Friend‘s 2003 nonfiction piece “Jumpers”; Brokeback Mountain (2005), an adaptation of the short story by Annie Proulx that appeared in the October 13, 1997, issue; Jonathan Safran Foer‘s 2001 debut in The New Yorker, which later came to theaters in Liev Schreiber‘s debut as both screenwriter and director, Everything Is Illuminated (2005); Michael Cunningham‘s The Hours, which appeared in The New Yorker before becoming the film that garnered the 2002 Best Actress Academy Award for Nicole Kidman; Adaptation (2002), which Charlie Kaufman based on Susan Orlean‘s The Orchid Thief, written for The New Yorker; Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes (1999), which also appeared, in part, in The New Yorker before its film adaptation was released in 1999; The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams Family Values (1993), both inspired by the work of New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams; Brian De Palma‘s Casualties of War (1989), which began as a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang; Boys Don’t Cry (1999), starring Hilary Swank, which began as an article in the magazine; Iris (2001), about the life of Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, the article written by Bayley for The New Yorker before he completed his full memoir, the film starring Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent; The Swimmer (1968), starring Burt Lancaster, based on a John Cheever short story from The New Yorker; In Cold Blood (1967), the widely nominated adaptation of the 1965 nonfiction serial written for The New Yorker by Truman Capote; Pal Joey (1957), based on a series of stories by John O’Hara; Mister 880 (1950), starring Edmund Gwenn, based on a story by longtime editor St. Clair McKelway; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), which began as a story by longtime New Yorker contributor James Thurber; and Junior Miss (1941) and Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), both adapted from Sally Benson‘s short stories.[citation needed]
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- ^ Hoffman, Jordan (2015-11-19). “Very Semi-Serious review – droll doc goes inside the New Yorker’s cartoon shed”. The Guardian. Archived from the original on May 1, 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ Caryn James (May 13, 2001). “Neighborhood Report: CRITIC’S VIEW; How The New Yorker Took Wing In Its Larval Years With Ross”. The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2011.
- ^ Quick Vids by Gary Handman, American Libraries, May 2006.
- ^ Overbey, Erin (September 24, 2021). “The New Yorker Writers and Editors Who Inspired The French Dispatch”. The New Yorker. Archived from the original on February 14, 2024. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
- ^ Proulx, Annie (October 10, 1997). “Brokeback Mountain”. The New Yorker (published October 6, 1998). Retrieved July 30, 2025.
- ^ Cunningham, Michael (September 20, 1998). “A Room at the Normandy”. The New Yorker (published September 13, 1998). Retrieved July 15, 2025.
- ^ Orlean, Susan (January 23, 1995). “Orchid Fever”. The New Yorker (published January 15, 1995). Retrieved July 30, 2025.
- ^ Frazier, Ian (February 26, 1990). “Coyote v. Acme”. The New Yorker. Retrieved August 27, 2025.
- ^ Saunders, George (December 20, 2010). “Escape from Spiderhead”. The New Yorker. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
