Daniel Talbot

In Love with Movies (eBook, ePUB)

From New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas
Redaktion: Talbot, Toby

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"All that I do is go out and look at films and choose the ones I want to play-films that stimulate, and give some insight into our lives. I hope that people will come, but if they don't, that's okay too."

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.

Talbot and his wife, Toby, opened the New Yorker Theater in 1960, cultivating a loyal audience of film buffs and cinephiles. He went on to run several theaters including Lincoln Plaza Cinemas as well as the distribution company New Yorker Films, shaping the sensibilities of generations of moviegoers. The Talbots introduced American audiences to cutting-edge foreign and independent filmmaking, including the French New Wave and New German Cinema.

In this lively, personal history of a bygone age of film exhibition, Talbot relates how he discovered and selected films including future classics such as Before the Revolution, Shoah, My Dinner with Andre, and The Marriage of Maria Braun. He reminisces about leading world directors such as Sembène, Godard, Fassbinder, Wenders, Varda, and Kiarostami as well as industry colleagues with whom he made deals on a slip of paper or a handshake.

In Love with Movies is an intimate portrait of a tastemaker who was willing to take risks. It not only lays out the nuts and bolts of running a theater but also tells the story of a young cinephile who turned his passion into a vibrant cultural community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231554893
• Artikelnr.: 62567451

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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