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.
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