The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies by Talbot, Toby -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Reel 1. The Theater

Genesis of the 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 Appendix 1: Program Notes

Appendix 2: American Theatrical Premieres at the Cinema Studio Appendix 3: American Theatrical Premieres at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Guest Books/Sample Pages Ledger from the New Yorker Theater Index Photographs and Stills