13 records matched your query       

Author:

Talbot, Toby.

Title:

The New Yorker Theater and other scenes from a life at the movies / Toby Talbot.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiii, 352 p., [25] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Talbot, Toby.
Talbot, Daniel.
Motion picture theater owners--New York--New York--Biography.
New Yorker Theater (New York, N.Y.)--History.
Motion picture theaters--New York--New York--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0231145675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231145671 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231145667 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231145664 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)320798545

LCCN:

2009019806

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)