The New Yorker Theater and other scenes from a life at the movies
By: Toby Talbot.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780231145664; 9780231145671; 9780231519823
Subjects: Talbot, Toby; Talbot, Daniel; New Yorker Theater (New York, N.Y.) -- History; Motion picture theater owners -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Motion picture theaters -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Martin Scorsese; title: Reel 1: The theater. Genesis of theater; title: Flashback; title: How the theater got its name; title: Opening programs; title: A family store; title: Struggles and obstacles of an art house; title: Matinees; title: Brief encounter; title: Walking to work; title: Cinephiles; title: Monday nights: special series; title: A phone call; title: Peter Bogdanovich; title: Events of 1968; title: Kids; title: Guest books; title: Things that bug an exhibitor and an audience; title: Payoffs; title: Reel 2: Distribution. Bernardo Bertolucci; title: Jean-Luc Godard; title: Ousmane Sembene; title: Point of order; title: New Yorker Films; title: Cinema novo and Latin American films; title: Catalogues; title: Alain Tanner; title: Jack Gelber; title: Nagisa Oshima; title: Satyajit Ray and Ismail Merchant; title: Jacques Tati; title: Yasujiro Ozu; title: Dreamland; title: Problems of distribution; title: A last hurrah; title: Shoah; title: Reel 3: On location. New Yorker bookstore; title: Box office; title: Candy-counter tales; title: Reel 4: Film critics. Manny Farber; title: Andrew Sarris; title: Pauline Kael; title: Vincent Canby; title: Reel 5: Festivals. Cannes; title: Berlin; title: Fassbinder; title: Post-Toronto: 2001; title: Reel 6: Demolition; title: The end of New Yorker Films; title: Reel 7: Epilogue: an ongoing reel.