Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017Griffin 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.
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Joan Didion
as Self
Griffin Dunne
as Self
Hilton Als
as Self
David Hare
as Self
Phyllis Rifield
as Self
Amy Robinson
as Self
Shelley Wanger
as Self
Harrison Ford
as Self
Tom Brokaw
as Self
Susanna Moore
as Self
Vanessa Redgrave
as Self
Robert Silvers
as Self
Calvin Trillin
as Self
Anna Wintour
as Self
Patricia Hearst
as Self
Janis Joplin
as Self
Tuesday Weld
as Self
Jim Morrison
as Self
Bobby Beausoleil
as Self
Oliver North
as Self
Jim Didion
as Self
Charles Manson
as Self (archive footage)
Leslie Van Houten
as Self (archive footage)
Linda Kasabian
as Self (archive footage)
Patricia Krenwinkel
as Self (archive footage)