The New Yorker Theatre and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies

Foreword by Martin Scorsese
Acknowledgments
Reel 1: The Theater
Genesis of the 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
Appendix 1: Program Notes (sample pages)
Appendix 2: American Theatrical Premieres at the Cinema Studio
Appendix 3: American Theatrical Premieres at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
Guest Books/Sample Pages
Ledger from the New Yorker Theater (sample pages)
Index