This year marked a hundred years since the birth of The New Yorker, and a documentary about the magazine’s past and present, “The New Yorker at 100,” is now streaming on Netflix. The director is the Academy Award winner Marshall Curry, and Judd Apatow served as an executive producer. They sat down to talk about the process behind the film with Jelani Cobb, a longtime staff writer for the magazine and the dean of the Columbia Journalism School. The trio discussed how they approached depicting a century of journalism history on film, their own relationships to The New Yorker, and what makes David Remnick so hard to interview. This interview took place at the 2025 New Yorker Festival.

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The creators of the film, now streaming on Netflix, on capturing the publication on film and how the magazine’s editorial process resembles a colonoscopy. 

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Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary

Marshall Curry and Judd Apatow on “The New Yorker at 100,” a Documentary

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