Talbot In Love with Movies

From New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55489-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talbot, Daniel

Talbot, Toby

Weitere Mitwirkende

Herzog, Werner

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Appendix: Excerpts from Dan Talbot’s Festival Notes
Appendix: Stanley Kauffmann Interviews Dan Talbot
Appendix: Dreams on My Screen
Credits
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Talbot (1926–2017) founded and ran the New Yorker Theater, Cinema Studio, Metro Theater, and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas as well as the distribution company New Yorker Films. Born in the Bronx, he was an Upper West Sider for almost sixty years.

Toby Talbot is the author of A Book About My Mother (1980) and The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies (Columbia, 2009). She has taught Spanish and Latin American literature at Columbia and New York University and documentary film at the New School, and has translated numerous works from Spanish, including Jacobo Timerman’s Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number.