2010 ACADEMY AWARD® NOMINEE
2010 GOLDEN GLOBE® NOMINEE
Grand Jury Prize winner and Golden Palm nominee this year at Cannes, writer/director Jacques Audiard (READ MY LIPS, THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED) continues his specialty in the underground crime genre with his fifth feature: A PROPHET. A huge success at the French box office, the film represents France as the official submission at the Oscars this year, for which it received a nomination. This internationally critically acclaimed prison drama stars newcomer Tahar Rahim as Malik, a part Arab, part Corsican teen condemned to six years in prison. Confronted by the leader of the Corsican gang (Niels Arestrup â?? THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED) currently ruling the prison, Malik is forced to carry out a number of missions to prove himself and, as he rises through the prison ranks, secretly devises his own criminal network.

Advance Tickets
Angelika New York: Feb 26th
Angelika Plano: Mar 12th

KILLING KASZTNER director, Gaylen Ross, hosts special Question and Answer events this weekend at the Angelika Film Center in Houston, immediately following the showtimes below. Click here for Advance Tickets.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010
4:35PM , 7:00 PM

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2010
2:10PM , 4:35PM , 7:00PM

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2010
2:10PM , 4:35PM

Join BEESWAX Director Andrew Bujalski (MUTUAL APPRECIATION, FUNNY HA HA) for a special Question & Answer event immediately following the 8:00PM show Friday and the 1:10PM show Saturday! Angelika Film Center Dallas.

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It’s that time of year again – Academy Award® season! The 2010 nominations arrived today with a few surprises and a few sure bets. At the Angelika in New York City, Dallas, Houston & Plano, as well as through the Angelika in Hawaii program (Oahu & Maui), we’re excited to exhibit multiple nominees across diverse categories.

ABC’s Oscar® site offers a printable ballot – catch up on the films you missed and mark your predictions. The year’s best films, directors and talent will be decided on Sunday, March 7th!

(From SmART Film – Marian Luntz, Houston Chronicle)
One of the year’s best documentaries, Fred Wiseman’s La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet is now playing at the Angelika Film Center.  The Chronicle’s rave review joins a long list of praises this extraordinary film has inspired.  Octogenarian Wiseman is a master of the observational style of filmmaking: his subjects reveal themselves with no voiceovers and no talking heads.  This film, his 38th, goes behind the scenes of this legendary dance company through rehearsals, meetings, and performances, in an absolutely captivating way.  You’ll be surprised when its 2 1/2 hours are over…(more)

NOW PLAYING: Houston and Dallas

Don’t miss the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday & catch up on multiple nominees at the Angelika before the ceremony.
Showtimes & tickets

OPENS TODAY: Dallas & Houston (advance tickets)
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS
Paying tribute to the late Academy Award winner Heath Ledger in his final role, THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS is a fantastical morality tale set in the present-day. Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding othersâ?? imaginations, Dr. Parnassus (Christopher Plummer) heads up his â??Imaginariumâ??, a travelling show where audience members must choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom. Directed by Academy Award winner Terry Gilliam (MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL , LIFE OF BRIAN , FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS), THE IMAGINARIUM also features Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law.

OPENS 02/05 AT THE ANGELIKA NEW YORK
A festival favorite, pulling in an impressive 19 awards including seven Robert Awards (Danish Oscars®), TERRIBLY HAPPY is Denmarkâ??s official entry for consideration in the Academy Awardsâ??® Foreign Language Film category. Reminiscent of the Coen Brothers BLOOD SIMPLE and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, TERRIBLY HAPPY displays a unique, often macabre vision of the darkest depths to which people will go to achieve security and belonging. Robert (Jakob Cedergren) is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position. Robertâ??s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in and he quickly spirals downward in this darkly comedic tale.

The National Board of Review (NBR) named its top picks on Thursday, crowning Jason Reitman’s third feature – UP IN THE AIR -  the year’s best film. The Angelika is proud to exhibit the award-winning films  listed below, which are currently playing or schedule to open soon at multiple Angelika locations.See AngelikaFilmCenter.com for showtimes & tickets in your city.

Best Film
UP IN THE AIR

Top Films
(In alphabetical order) AN EDUCATION, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, INVICTUS, THE MESSENGER, A SERIOUS MAN

Best Foreign Language Film
A PROPHET

Top Foreign Films
THE MAID, REVANCHE, THE WHITE RIBBON

Top Documentaries
GOOD HAIR

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
GABOUREY SIDIBE, Precious

Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut
OREN MOVERMAN, The Messenger

Best Director
CLINT EASTWOOD, Invictus

Best Adapted Screenplay
JASON REITMAN and SHELDON TURNER, Up In The Air

Special Filmmaking Achievement
WES ANDERSON, The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Freedom Of Expression
INVICTUS