Toby Talbot, who with her husband, Dan, cultivated an erudite and eclectic audience of American cinephiles by exhibiting and distributing foreign and independent films in humble art houses in New York City and across the country, died on Sept. 15 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. The cause was complications of Guillain-Barré syndrome, her daughter Sarah Talbot said. For six decades, Toby and Dan Talbot operated four pioneering art-house cinemas on the Upper West Side of Manhattan (the New Yorker Theater, from 1960 to 1973; Cinema Studio, from 1977 to 1990; the Metro Theater, from 1982 to 1987;...