The New Yorker Theater

And Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-14566-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 767 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Talbot, Toby

Weitere Mitwirkende

Scorsese, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Martin ScorseseAcknowledgmentsReel 1: The TheaterGenesis of the Theater Flashback How the Theater Got Its NameOpening ProgramsA Family StoreStruggles and Obstacles of an Art HouseMatineesBrief EncounterWalking to WorkCinephilesMonday Nights: Special SeriesA Phone CallPeter BogdanovichEvents of 1968KidsGuest BooksThings That Bug an Exhibitor and an AudiencePayoffsReel 2: DistributionBernardo BertolucciJean-Luc GodardOusmane SembenePoint of OrderNew Yorker FilmsCinema Novo and Latin American FilmsCataloguesAlain TannerJack GelberNagisa OshimaSatyajit Ray and Ismail MerchantJacques TatiYasujiro OzuDreamlandProblems of DistributionA Last HurrahShoahReel 3: On LocationNew Yorker BookstoreBox OfficeCandy-Counter TalesReel 4: Film CriticsManny FarberAndrew SarrisPauline KaelVincent CanbyReel 5: FestivalsCannesBerlinFassbinderPost-Toronto: 2001Reel 6: DemolitionThe End of New Yorker FilmsReel 7: Epilogue: An Ongoing ReelAppendix 1: Program Notes (sample pages)Appendix 2: American Theatrical Premieres at the Cinema StudioAppendix 3: American Theatrical Premieres at the Lincoln Plaza CinemasGuest Books/Sample PagesLedger from the New Yorker Theater (sample pages)Index

Über Autor(innen)

Toby Talbot, a native New Yorker, has been an Upper Westsider since the 1950s. She and her husband Dan Talbot first owned and ran the New Yorker Theater in the 1960s, and then Manhattan's Cinema Studio and Metro Theater in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. They now own and run Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Talbot is the author of A Book About My Mother, Early Disorder, numerous childrens' books, and many translations, among them Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without A Name, Cell Without a Number. She has taught Spanish literature at Columbia College and New York University, was formerly the education editor of El Diario de Nueva York, and now teaches documentary film at the New School University in New York.