Last night’s Academy Awards proved fruitful for the Coen Brothers’ much acclaimed thriller NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, which took home 4 trophies including Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and the always coveted Best Picture award.

Other big winners included fan favorite JUNO screenwriter Diablo Cody (Best Original Screenplay), Daniel Day-Lewis for his role in THERE WILL BE BLOOD (Best Actor), Alex Gibney’s documentary TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE (Best Documentary Feature) and Austria’s THE COUNTERFEITERS (Best Foreign Language Film).

For a complete list of winners, visit Variety, and visit www.angelikafilmcenter.com to find out when and where you can see all of last nights winners and nominees.

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Rising star Taylor Momsen makes her indie film debut next month in PARANOID PARK, Gus Van Sant’s totally enthralling new film that has critics (and regular people who were lucky enough to catch it on the festival circuit) raving.

Fourteen-year-old Momsen, who recently shot to enormous fame with her role as Jenny on the Gossip Girl , invited us to chat with her about her role in this moody, adolescent drama that will make you glad you’re not in high school anymore.

Click the PARANOID PARK still below to watch the video interview.

PARANOID PARK opens March 7 @ the Angelika New York and March 14 @ the Angelika Dallas and Houston.

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In honor of Radiolab’s season premiere episodes entitled LAUGHTER, the Angelika brings you more exclusive video clips. In our first clip, we watch Joe Randazzo, associate editor of The Onion, and Radiolab host Jad Abumrad discuss the evolution and anatomy of the laugh (and watch as they demonstrate some of their favorite laughs). Click below to view.

This second clip is best left to be explained by Abumrad: “The first episode of our new season is all about why we laugh. I know, it seems like a stupid question. We laugh because something is funny, right? Actually, the scientists we talked to say that laughter has little to do with humor. It’s usually about social interactions, and, more specifically, power. Tyler Stillman, a psychologist at Florida State University, used a joke about a two muffins in an oven to show that a bad joke can get a big laugh, so long as a boss is telling it to an employee. Sadly, it doesn’t work the other way around. It seems the person in power laughs least. Here at Radio Lab, we like to test things out for ourselves. So we used the WNYC offices as our own little laboratory, and tried to find out if it’s true that our bosses are funnier than us, even when they aren’t. Here’s what we saw.” Click below to view.

Don’t forget about the listening premiere this Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Angelika New York.

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Radiolab is holding its Season Premiere Listening Party, au gratis, on Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Angelika New York - first come first serve and hope to see you there!

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Radiolab, the syndicated, top-rated NPR program is premiering its 4th season at the Angelika New York on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7pm. The free “listening premiere”, held in conjunction with WNYC public radio, is open to the first 203 lucky fans to arrive at the theater - attendees will be treated to some pretty cool guests, including one of The Onion’s hilarious editors, an underground musical act and the chance to meet the Radiolab hosts themselves!

Hosted by award winning, cult-journalist heroes Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab airs locally on WNYC and takes an accessible, documentary-style, intelligent (and kind of odd) approach to tackling existentialist-friendly topics and current events (past shows have featured such titles as Morality, Beyond Time, & Who Am I).

For more info, visit the Radiolab Website. And keep checking back at our blog for exclusive media from a some of the [wacky] participants….

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IN BRUGES, a fresh, twisted take on the hit-man genre, opened this year’s Sundance Film Festival to plenty of rave reviews. Academy Award winning director (for the short film Six Shooter) and Tony nominated playwright Martin McDonagh makes his full-length feature-film debut with this medieval black comedy starring Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes and Brendan Gleason.

The ever-entertaining McDonagh sat down with us in Dallas to discuss the film and stayed for a Q&A with our audience after screening the film. Click the still below to check out both videos, and don’t forget that IN BRUGES opens 2/8 at the Angelika New York and 2/15 at the Angelika Houston & Plano.

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