At the movies: Salinger
Starring: Edward Norton, Judd Apatow and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Directed by: Shane Salerno.
An unprecedented documentary film which takes a look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
It features interviews with 150 subjects, including J.D. Salinger’s friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who have never spoken on the record before, as well as film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen.
Scott Berg and Elizabeth Frank talk about Salinger’s influence on their lives, their work and the broader culture.
The film is the first work to get beyond the Catcher in the Rye author’s meticulously built-up wall: his childhood, painstaking work methods, marriages, private world and the secrets he left behind after his death in 2010.
It opens at cinemas on Friday.
