The New Yorker Theater and other scenes from a life at the movies /
The nation didn't know it, but 1960 would change American film forever, and the revolution would occur nowhere near a Hollywood set. With the opening of the New Yorker Theater, a cinema located at the heart of Manhattan's Upper West Side, cutting-edge films from around the world were scree...
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Columbia University Press,
[2009]
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Table of 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.
