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English
Pages
352

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The New Yorker Theater and other scenes from a life at the movies
2009, Columbia University Press
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43092, B
Library of Congress
PN1998.3.T3424 A3 2009, PN1998.3.T3424A3

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 352 p., [25] p. of plates :
Number of pages
352

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24115077M
Internet Archive
newyorkertheater0000talb
ISBN 10
0231145667, 0231145675, 0231519826
ISBN 13
9780231145664, 9780231145671, 9780231519823
LCCN
2009019806
OCLC/WorldCat
320798545

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