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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
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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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