A Consumer’s Guide to the Joan Didion Documentary

By Oronte. In October 2014 I discovered a Kickstarter campaign by Griffin Dunne—actor, director, and nephew of Joan Didion—whose goal was to finance “the first and only documentary being made about Joan Didion.” Dunne would be co-director. The working title was “We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live,” a line from her White Album, which, stripped of context, sounds both hopeful and self-justifying. More...