Tonight the New York Film Festival will honor Dan and Toby Talbot and their the legendary, erstwhile New Yorker Theater in a special event marking the publication of Toby Talbot’s The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies. New York cinephiles know the Talbots well. Pioneers in bringing international “art” cinema to American shores, the Talbots opened their famed Upper West Side New Yorker Theater in 1960 and began their distribution company, New Yorker Films—which, sadly, closed its doors last year—five years later. Through both of these enterprises, the couple were responsible for introducing New Yorkers (including such budding filmmakers and critics as Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Andrew Sarris, Pauline Kael, and Molly Haskell), and the rest of the country, to the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Yasujiro Ozu, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Ousmane Sembene, among many others.
Tonight’s event will feature a conversation with the Talbots and filmmaker Jonathan Demme, hosted by Haskell, on the Talbots’ legacy, followed by a screening of one of New Yorker Films’ most noted releases, Louis Malle’s My Dinner with Andre, which was a huge hit at the 1981 New York Film Festival.
1981
110 min
Color
1.66:1
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