It was also legendary for the film notes and programs it distributed at the theater. Novelists, critics, filmmakers, and artists such as Terry Southern, Jonas Mekas, and Jules Feiffer wrote critical assessments on a variety of movies.
Click on the links below to read some examples of the New Yorker's film notes:
- Jules Feiffer on Gold Diggers of 1933
- Jonas Mekas on Shors
- Chandler Brossard on Dead of Night
- Harold Humes on The Last Laugh
- Robert Brustein on Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
- Eugene Archer on The Woman Alone (Sabotoage)
- Jack Gelber on Foolish Wives
- Terry Southern on A Star Is Born (1937 version)