Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Griffin Dunne2017-10-11
7.2
92 min
Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor.
Cast
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Joan Didion | Self | Unowned |
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Griffin Dunne | Self | Unowned |
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Hilton Als | Self | Unowned |
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David Hare | Self | Unowned |
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Phyllis Rifield | Self | Unowned |
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Amy Robinson | Self | Unowned |
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Shelley Wanger | Self | Unowned |
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Harrison Ford | Self | Calvin and Nobbs |
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Tom Brokaw | Self | Unowned |
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Susanna Moore | Self | Unowned |
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Vanessa Redgrave | Self | Zac E. Chan |
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Robert Silvers | Self | Unowned |
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Calvin Trillin | Self | Unowned |
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Anna Wintour | Self | Unowned |
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Patricia Hearst | Self | Unowned |
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Janis Joplin | Self | Unowned |
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Tuesday Weld | Self | Unowned |
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Jim Morrison | Self | Unowned |
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Bobby Beausoleil | Self | Unowned |
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Oliver North | Self | Unowned |
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Jim Didion | Self | Unowned |
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Charles Manson | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Leslie Van Houten | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Linda Kasabian | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Patricia Krenwinkel | Self (archive footage) | Unowned |