February 24, 2011

The gang from BROTHERHOOD – Lou Taylor Pucci, Trevor Morgan, Jon Foster, and director Will Canon – stopped by the Angelika last week to talk about independent filmmaking, fraternity pranks, and and why the tagline for the movie could’ve been “BROTHERHOOD, Like Going to a Water Park Without All the Pee”…

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival, BROTHERHOOD is about a college freshman who finds himself blindfolded in the back of a van dealing with the fact that he has to rob a convenience store as the final step of his initiation into the Sigma Zeta Chi fraternity. Filmed on location in Arlington, Texas, this well crafted and superbly acted indie shows how a college fraternity initiation can go horribly wrong. BROTHERHOOD is now playing at the Angelika Dallas – tickets are available online at www.AngelikaFilmCenter.com 

February 18, 2011

We had an outstanding preview screening of EVEN THE RAIN on Tuesday – but if you missed that, now’s your chance to catch Gael Garcia Bernal’s latest starring role.The film opens today at the Angelika with a full schedule.Watch the trailer below or head over toIMDB.com for an exclusive clip, then purchase tickets online for this moving, critically acclaimed film.

“One of the most urgent and certainly among the most beautifully shot documentaries to hit the big screen in recent memory” – Manohla Dargis, NY Times 

THE LAST LIONS, an incredible documentary from award-winning filmmaking duo Dereck & Beverly Joubert, opens today at the Angelika New York and The Paris Theatre.Narrated by Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons, THE LAST LIONS tells the real-life story of an ostracized lioness and her two cubs fighting for survival in Botswanaâ??s Okavango Delta, one of the last regions where lions can live in the wild. Faced with dwindling land and pressures from the hunting of lions, the lionessâ??s struggle to escape to safety on Duba Island is deftly captured by the Jouberts. Taking into account that big cats are at the very top of the food chain, their rapidly approaching extinction will cause a complete ecosystem collapse unless we take action. Through gorgeous panorama and a touching back story, THE LAST LIONS brings to light the importance of protecting these beautiful creatures, the last lions of our planet under moral and government mandate.JOIN US THIS WEEKEND FOR A SPECIAL Q&A WITH DERECK & BEVERLY JOUBERT:Friday 2/18 following the 7:20PM show at the AngelikaSaturday 2/19 following the 7:20PM show at the Paris

February 15, 2011

Dallas’ Adam Conway sat down with Channing Tatum to discuss his experience filming THE EAGLE, Academy Award winning Director Kevin MacDonald’s (ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER) Roman Empire epic.

THE EAGLE is now playing – see www.ConsolidatedTheatres.com or www.ReadingCinemasUS.com for showtime and ticket information.

February 14, 2011

 

EVEN THE RAIN, Spain’s critically acclaimed entry to the Academy Awards, opens this Friday 2/18 at the Angelika New York – but Angelika Blog readers have a chance to win tickets to an advance screening tomorrow!

 

 

ABOUT THE FILM:

This powerful story, starring Oscar-winning actors Gael García Bernal (BABEL, AMORES PERROS) and Luis Toscar (TAKE MY EYES) follows two men whose journey to Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus lands them at opposite ends of a moral and political battle that not only hinders the shoot, but also spurs a violent civil war over basic human rights.  

 

THE SCREENING:

TUESDAY, 2/15 @ 7:00p AT THE VILLAGE EAST CINEMA

 

HOW TO WIN TICKETS:

1. Follow @CityCinemasNYC or @AngelikaNewYork

2. Retweet our post, “Win tickets for you+guest to sneak preview of EVEN THE RAIN set during #water uprising in Bolivia. At the Village East 2/15″

3. Check your inbox tomorrow – we’ll let you know if you’re on the list!

 

February 1, 2011

Friday 2/4 through Thursday 2/10, see international sensation HOME for FREE at the Village East.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s first feature film makes its US premiere this weekend. Arthus-Bertrand’s aerial photography is renowned for its sweeping views of Earth’s most impressive landscapes. He explains his unique environmental perspective and self-taught art in a New York Times article:

â??No one is an environmentalist by birth,â? he said, â??It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.â?Mr. Arthus-Bertrand first found inspiration in a small, solitary experience, when three decades ago he painstakingly observed a family of lions in Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.â??The lions taught me photography,â? Mr. Arthus-Bertrand said. â??They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.â?A former actor with no higher education, Mr. Arthus-Bertrand described himself as a â??violent child,â? attending 15 different schools as a boy. He discovered aerial photography working as a hot-air balloon pilot in Kenya. From the air, he explained, you see the world differently, and borders disappear.For years he shot photos for the Paris-Dakar rally, Club Med catalogs and various clients in Morocco. In 1992 he stumbled across the notion of â??sustainable developmentâ? in an article in the newspaper Le Monde, and that serendipitous moment changed his life.â??I didnâ??t know what it was,â? he said, â??but started looking into concepts such as fair trade and ozone layer.â?His work on â??Earth From Aboveâ? made him an environmentalist, he said. Over eight years, he photographed about 160 countries and read dozens of books on environmental issues. Few publications were willing to publish his work at first. He sold prints to pay for his flights and mortgaged his apartment to finance the book.â??Earth From Aboveâ? has come to be viewed in France as the bible of aerial photography and has spawned similar books like â??Paris From the Airâ? and â??New York From the Air.â? For Mr. Arthus-Bertrand, the experience has been â??like winning the lottery.â?

(Full article here)Reserve your FREE tickets online now at www.VillageEastCinema.com – use Fandango promo code NYCHOME.Bringing a large group? Contact Andrew Smoker at 212.871.6839 to make arrangements for 10 or more.