The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

[56 min; 1987; English]
Director: Aviba Slesin

Recipient of the Oscar Award for Best Documentary, Features, Academy Awards 1988; and Lilian Gish Award for Excellence in Documentary, Los Angeles Women in Film Festival 1987.

Throughout the "Roaring '20s," a flock of the decade's most vibrant writers gathered daily to dine at New York City's Algonquin Hotel. Here the likes of Edna Ferber, Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and Harpo Marx socialized and philosophized while crafting works that captured the era's high-class ambitions and ultimate decadence. In this Oscar-winning documentary, Aviva Slesin uses the Round Table as a focal point to explore how the Jazz Age shaped these artists' relationships and lives.