TEETH is the story of a young girl who is anatomically…peculiar. Click the film still below to watch the trailer…and be glad that you only need one toothbrush.
TEETH opens January 18 @ the Village East Cinema. Visit www.villageeastcinema.com for more info.
PERSEPOLIS, the Jury Prize winner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language film, opens December 25 at the Angelika New York and January 18 at the Angelika Houston.
Widely regarded as one of the best films of the year, PERSEPOLIS is directed by Iranian New York Times op-ed comic Marjane Satrapi, who joins forces with acclaimed French comic Vincent Paronnaud to write and direct the animated and affecting story of Marjane, a conflicted young girl who is coming of age in Iran during the Islamic revolution. The story follows her as she grows into a young woman and poignantly depicts the struggle she and her family face in choosing between her safety and her desire to retain her roots in Iran.
Below is the trailer for the film, as well as an exclusive clip from the film.
When an internet pioneer like Barry Schuler, one of AOL’s original trailblazers, supports the notion that Big Brother is indeed always watching you, one has to believe it might be the truth. Schuler is a prominent producer on writer - director Adam Rifkin’s new film LOOK, a provocative fictional account of what he purports to be a pervasive, post-911 phenomenon that has been sweeping the United States - the placement of video surveillance cameras in virtually every spot imaginable. Rifkin, who became aware of how prevalent these cameras are when he was photographed speeding through a yellow light, has created a realistic portrait of this “spy-cam” type footage by shooting the film entirely in surveillance-friendly locations with unrecognizable actors. Shot on authentic looking film, Rifkin placed his cameras next to real surveillances cameras in places like dressing rooms, parking lots, 7-11’s and ATMs to recreate reality - and the results are scarily accurate.
The Hollywood Reporter calls LOOK
“a fascinating feature”, and Rifkin was also featured in Newsweek’s “Fast Chat” Column.
Rifkin filmed a small preview feature for us, which you can watch below.
LOOK opens on December 14 @ the Angelika New York. Click here to purchase tickets.
Mr. Turturro completed his rounds at the Angelika Dallas this weekend by hosting a Q&A after his Saturday evening screening of ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES. Enjoy the video below, and don’t forget to scroll down for our exclusive, one-on-one interview!
John was nice enough to take a minute between trying on cowboy hats, making the social rounds in our cafe and watching his film on the big screen to sit down with us for a brief one-on-one interview and a behind-the-scenes look at ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES. Watch the video below.
Revered New York Times critic Manohla Dargis calls director Richard Kelly’s SOUTHLAND TALES a “funny, audacious, messy and feverishly inspired look at America and its discontents”, and proclaims that the film “has more ideas, visual and intellectual, in a single scene than most American independent films have in their entirety…”.
Dargis is not one to dish out such high praise on a regular basis, it goes without saying that SOUTHLAND TALES is not to be missed! The film is playing now @ the Angelika New York and opens this Friday, 11/16 @ the Angelika Dallas. Click here to read the full review,
and check out the trailer below.
Khalid Abdalla was nice enough to hang out and answering some questions from our audience after last week’s screening of THE KITE RUNNER. Check it out below, and don’t miss THE KITE RUNNER, opening 12/14 @ the Angelika Plano.
We sat down with director Amir Bar-Lev as he told us a little bit about the making of his documentary: a fascinating story that starts out as the unveiling of a child prodigy and veers into unpredictably controversial territory that places a four-year-old kid and her family in the eye of an art-world storm.
Pras, hip-hop artist and founding member of the Fugees, premiered his new film “Skid Row” @ the Village East Cinemas this weekend. In the documentary, Pras goes undercover for nine days and nights as a homeless man on LA’s Skid Row in hopes of making a statement about the state of street life in America Day. After the show, Pras stuck around along with Orlando Ward of LA’s Midnight Mission to answer your questions…check it out below.
THE RAPE OF EUROPA, opening September 14 @ the Angelika New York, brings what Variety critic Ronnie Scheib calls “a radically new perspective to World War II and the Holocaust.” The film is narrated by Joan Allen, and breathtakingly chronicles the Third Reich’s deliberate destruction of some of Western Europe’s most valuable art.
Read the entire review and check out the trailer below.
