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In love with movies : from New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas / Daniel Talbot, Toby Talbot, Werner Herzog.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talbot, Daniel, 1926-2017, author.
- Talbot, Toby, author.
- Herzog, Werner, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Talbot, Daniel, 1926-2017.
- Talbot, Daniel.
- Motion pictures--Distribution.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture industry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Daniel Talbot changed the way the Upper West Side-and art-house audiences around the world-went to the movies. In Love with Movies is his memoir of a rich life as the impresario of the legendary Manhattan theaters he owned and operated and as a highly influential film distributor.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Foreword, by Werner Herzog
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fragments from the Dream World
- Part 1: Early Years
- Nueva York
- The New Yorker Theater
- Theater Diary: 1960
- The Ideal Movie House
- Other Side of the Tracks
- What to Play
- Bella and the Critic
- Chandler Brossard
- Part 2: Those Who Made Me Laugh
- Mae West and W. C. Fields
- The Marx Brothers
- Part 3: Unsung Film Pioneers
- Collectors
- Early Distributors
- Ed Harrison's Indian Idol
- Mel Novikoff: West Coast Perfectionist
- Presenting Don Rugoff: Manhattan Exhibitor Like No Other
- Part 4: Acquisitions
- Emile de Antonio and the Making of Point of Order
- New Yorker Films
- My Dinner with André
- Rules of the Game
- Part 5: Directors in My Life
- Yasujiro Ozu
- Nagisa Oshima
- Ousmane Sembène
- Roberto Rossellini
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Wim Wenders
- Werner Herzog
- Part 6: Shoah
- Claude Lanzmann
- A Memory Project
- Part 7: More Directors
- Agnès Varda
- Jacques Tati
- Glauber Rocha
- Jean Eustache
- Part 8: Criteria
- From the Safety of My Living Room
- Rozhinkel
- Miura
- "Ignatz, don't go so deep."
- Minyan
- Part 9: Reflections
- Clusters of Fragmented Moments
- The New Frankness
- Death Equals Freedom
- Take to the Streets
- Part 10: Portraits
- Pete Martin and the New Yorker Bookshop
- Pauline Kael: Fueled by Fire
- Vincent Canby: With Brains and Heart
- Toscan: Gaumont's Wit
- The Indomitable Lia van Leer: Founder of the Jerusalem Cinematheque
- Kieslowski, Malle, and Mastroianni: Three Lives and Three Deaths
- Gianni Amico and Jacques Demy: Journal Excerpts
- Part 11: Upper West Side Cinemas
- Upper West Side
- All Seats 1.00 at All Times
- Cinema Studio
- The Metro
- The Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
- The Nuts and Bolts of Running a Movie Theater.
- Festivals
- Epilogue, by Toby Talbot
- Excerpts from Dan Talbot's Festival Notes
- Stanley Kauffmann Interviews Dan Talbot
- Dreams on My Screen
- Credits
- Index
- Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-55489-3
- OCLC:
- 1266191971
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