The New Yorker Theater: A Talbot Legacy is a film that anyone who loves movies, especially if you’ve loved movies over the last 60 or so years needs to see. The reason I say that is because the Talbot’s basically shaped how and what we see thanks to the Talbots and their New Yorker Theater.
The film is the story of the Talbots, as told to us by Dan Talbot from beyond the grave. It’s the story of how the Talbots met, boned over the movies and then started to run the New Yorker where they started to run not only art films, but older films that hadn’t been screened in years – thus proving that there was a market for the old stuff and causing revival houses to open up across the country. There is a ton more to the story, including how the theater eventually was the foundation for New Yorker Films which made all sorts of important and interesting titles more accessible to the viewing public.
I loved this film. This was a huge ball of nostalgia for me, not so much because of the theater but because the New Yorker meant something to a young cinephile in the NYC area. What they screened mattered and what they did bled off the screen their and ended up in my neighborhood revival/art houses.
This film is an absolute blast- whose explosion in your heart will be determined by how big a movie nut you are.
I don’t know what else to say other than if you love the movies this film is a must see.
(The film is going to be part of a longer feature detailing the lives of the Talbots)
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