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The New Yorker Theater and other scenes from a life at the movies / Toby Talbot.
LIBRA PN1998.3.T3424 A3 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talbot, Toby.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Talbot, Toby.
- Talbot, Daniel.
- New Yorker Theater (New York, N.Y.).
- Motion picture theater owners--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Motion picture theater owners.
- New Yorker Theater (New York, N.Y.)--History.
- Motion picture theaters--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Motion picture theaters.
- History.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 352 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Foreword / by Martin Scorsese
- Reel 1: The theater. Genesis of theater
- Flashback
- How the theater got its name
- Opening programs
- A family store
- Struggles and obstacles of an art house
- Matinees
- Brief encounter
- Walking to work
- Cinephiles
- Monday nights: special series
- A phone call
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Events of 1968
- Kids
- Guest books
- Things that bug an exhibitor and an audience
- Payoffs
- Reel 2: Distribution. Bernardo Bertolucci
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Ousmane Sembene
- Point of order
- New Yorker Films
- Cinema novo and Latin American films
- Catalogues
- Alain Tanner
- Jack Gelber
- Nagisa Oshima
- Satyajit Ray and Ismail Merchant
- Jacques Tati
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Dreamland
- Problems of distribution
- A last hurrah
- Shoah
- Reel 3: On location. New Yorker bookstore
- Box office
- Candy-counter tales
- Reel 4: Film critics. Manny Farber
- Andrew Sarris
- Pauline Kael
- Vincent Canby
- Reel 5: Festivals. Cannes
- Berlin
- Fassbinder
- Post-Toronto: 2001
- Reel 6: Demolition
- The end of New Yorker Films
- Reel 7: Epilogue: an ongoing reel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231145664
- 0231145667
- 9780231145671
- 0231145675
- 9780231519823
- 0231519826
- OCLC:
- 320798545
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