New Yorker Films

For over forty-five years, New Yorker Films has been Americas leading source for the films on the cutting edge of world cinema. The company was founded in 1965 by Daniel Talbot as an outgrowth of his legendary movie house, the New Yorker Theater. Unable to obtain several crucial foreign titles, Talbot was obliged to import them himself. Early acquisitions such as Bertoluccis BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, Godards LES CARABINIERS, and Sembenes BLACK GIRL established New Yorkers still vital tradition of presenting the worlds most innovative, artistically significant, and politically engaged films. Controversial and challenging works considered untouchable by other distributors have been regularly taken on by New Yorker (and often turned into surprise hits), including Jacques Rivettes self-reflexive masterpiece CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING, Chantal Akermans feminist landmark JEANNE DIELMAN...,and Claude Lanzmanns monumental Holocaust documentary SHOAH, to mention just a few. Always on the ale...