Foreword by Martin ScorseseAcknowledgmentsReel 1: The TheaterGenesis of the Theater Flashback How the Theater Got Its NameOpening ProgramsA Family StoreStruggles and Obstacles of an Art HouseMatineesBrief EncounterWalking to WorkCinephilesMonday Nights: Special SeriesA Phone CallPeter BogdanovichEvents of 1968KidsGuest BooksThings That Bug an Exhibitor and an AudiencePayoffsReel 2: DistributionBernardo BertolucciJean-Luc GodardOusmane SembenePoint of OrderNew Yorker FilmsCinema Novo and Latin American FilmsCataloguesAlain TannerJack GelberNagisa OshimaSatyajit Ray and Ismail MerchantJacques TatiYasujiro OzuDreamlandProblems of DistributionA Last HurrahShoahReel 3: On LocationNew Yorker BookstoreBox OfficeCandy-Counter TalesReel 4: Film CriticsManny FarberAndrew SarrisPauline KaelVincent CanbyReel 5: FestivalsCannesBerlinFassbinderPost-Toronto: 2001Reel 6: DemolitionThe End of New Yorker FilmsReel 7: Epilogue: An Ongoing ReelAppendix 1: Program Notes (sample pages)Appendix 2: American Theatrical Premieres at the Cinema StudioAppendix 3: American Theatrical Premieres at the Lincoln Plaza CinemasGuest Books/Sample PagesLedger from the New Yorker Theater (sample pages)Index