Editing The New Yorker (section)

=== Cinema ===
''New Yorker'' articles have been regular sources for motion pictures. Both fiction and nonfiction pieces have been adapted for the big screen, including ''[[Coyote vs. Acme]]'' (2026), based on [[Ian Frazier]]'s article of the same name; ''[[Spiderhead]]'' (2022), based on George Saunders's story ''Escape from Spiderhead''; ''[[Flash of Genius (film)|Flash of Genius]]'' (2008), based on a true account of the invention of the intermittent windshield wiper by [[John Seabrook]]; ''[[Away from Her]]'', adapted from Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came over the Mountain", which debuted at the 2007 [[Sundance Film Festival]]; ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]'' (2007), similarly based on [[Jhumpa Lahiri]]'s novel, which originated as a short story in the magazine; ''[[The Bridge (2006 documentary film)|The Bridge]]'' (2006), based on [[Tad Friend]]'s 2003 nonfiction piece "Jumpers"; ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (2005), an adaptation of the short story by [[E. Annie Proulx|Annie Proulx]] that appeared in the October 13, 1997, issue; [[Jonathan Safran Foer]]'s 2001 debut in ''The New Yorker'', which later came to theaters in [[Liev Schreiber]]'s debut as both screenwriter and director, ''[[Everything Is Illuminated (film)|Everything Is Illuminated]]'' (2005); [[Michael Cunningham]]'s'' [[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]'', which appeared in ''The New Yorker'' before becoming the film that garnered the 2002 Best Actress Academy Award for [[Nicole Kidman]]; ''[[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation]]'' (2002), which [[Charlie Kaufman]] based on [[Susan Orlean]]'s ''[[The Orchid Thief]]'', written for ''The New Yorker''; Frank McCourt's ''[[Angela's Ashes]]'' (1999), which also appeared, in part, in ''The New Yorker'' before its film adaptation was released in 1999; ''[[The Addams Family (1991 film)|The Addams Family]]'' (1991) and its sequel, ''[[Addams Family Values]]'' (1993), both inspired by the work of ''New Yorker'' cartoonist [[Charles Addams]]; [[Brian De Palma]]'s ''[[Casualties of War]]'' (1989), which began as a ''New Yorker'' article by Daniel Lang; ''[[Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]'' (1999), starring Hilary Swank, which began as an article in the magazine; ''[[Iris (2001 film)|Iris]]'' (2001), about the life of Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, the article written by Bayley for ''The New Yorker'' before he completed his full memoir, the film starring Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent; ''[[The Swimmer (1968 film)|The Swimmer]]'' (1968), starring [[Burt Lancaster]], based on a John Cheever short story from ''The New Yorker''; ''[[In Cold Blood (film)|In Cold Blood]]'' (1967), the widely nominated adaptation of the 1965 nonfiction serial written for ''The New Yorker'' by [[Truman Capote]]; ''[[Pal Joey (film)|Pal Joey]]'' (1957), based on a series of stories by John O'Hara; ''[[Mister 880]]'' (1950), starring [[Edmund Gwenn]], based on a story by longtime editor [[St. Clair McKelway]]; ''[[The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]]'' (1947), which began as a story by longtime ''New Yorker'' contributor James Thurber; and ''[[Junior Miss]]'' (1941) and ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis (film)|Meet Me in St. Louis]]'' (1944), both adapted from [[Sally Benson]]'s short stories.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}