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The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
Toby Talbot
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Description for The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
Hardback. Num Pages: 400 pages, 76 black and white photos. BIC Classification: APF; BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 774.
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 screened for an eager audience, including the city's most influential producers, directors, critics, and writers. Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Susan Sontag, Andrew Sarris, and Pauline Kael, among many others, would make the New Yorker their home, trusting in the owners' impeccable taste and incorporating much of what they viewed into their work. ... Read more
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 screened for an eager audience, including the city's most influential producers, directors, critics, and writers. Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Susan Sontag, Andrew Sarris, and Pauline Kael, among many others, would make the New Yorker their home, trusting in the owners' impeccable taste and incorporating much of what they viewed into their work. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231145664
SKU
V9780231145664
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About Toby Talbot
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
Will give readers with more than a casual interest in movies a look at some key people who influenced New Cinema. Library Journal [The New Yorker Theater] will certainly appeal to film buffs, to New Yorkers, and to celebrity watchers. And there are valuable materials for cinematic historians as well.
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