Griffin Dunne chronicles the life and work of his aunt, Joan Didion
NEW YORK - Griffin Dunne hadn't always planned to make a film about his aunt, the celebrated essayist and novelist Joan Didion. But when they collaborated on a trailer for her 2011 memoir, "Blue Nights," he realized Didion was long overdue for the documentary treatment.
"I asked her and from the moment she said yes, I said, 'Oh, boy, I'm in for it now. This person means a lot to a lot of people,'" recalls Dunne over the course of lunch at a Ukrainian diner near his downtown apartment. The years-long labor of love, aided by a Kickstarter campaign, has finally resulted in "Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold," arriving Friday on Netflix.
The actor-director-producer has created a sometimes surprising portrait of an author known for writing about the cultural
