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SEX AND THE CITY CONTEST AT THE ANGELIKA

admin — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:02:55 +0000

If you’ve ever sat around and wondered why you can’t make your living writing sex columns, or looked in the mirror and sworn you were Samantha Jones’ long lost twin, the Angelika Film Center is giving you the chance to prove your case.

SEX AND THE CITY finally hits the big screen on Friday, May 30th, and in honor of the long-awaited, much anticipated release, the Angelika Film Center invites you to participate in our exclusive SEX AND THE CITY LOOK-A-LIKE contest.

Patrons are invited to either write their own Carrie Bradshaw-style column, or dress up like their favorite character - send us your column or your photo, and we’ll pick our favorites. One winner in each category gets $150 in Angelika Cinemoney and their entry featured on this blog. Two runners up in each category get $75 worth of Cinemoney.

Also in honor of the big premiere, the Angelika Dallas will be serving cosmos all week long, so make sure to join us! SEX AND THE CITY opens on Friday, May 30th. See you there!

CONTEST DETAILS

How to enter:
You can enter in either one (but not both) of the below categories:

Write your own Carrie Bradshaw-style column. While the topic choice is yours, please keep it under 350 words. If the written word isn’t your thing, you can also try dressing up as your favorite SATC character - snap a photo of yourself and e-mail it to us (clothing required).

Official Rules:

Entries must be received by midnight on 5/29/2008 to be considered eligible
Please send all entries to angelikasubmissions@gmail.com.
Written entries must be 350 words or less. Photo entries are to be sent in .jpg format only and are to be no larger than 2 MB. Any written work with pornographic or x-rated implications will not be considered. Any photos containing nudity or sexually explicit content will not be considered. The Angelika Film Center reserves the right to define said terms at its discretion.
Contestants must be at least 18 years old to enter
There will be a winner and a runner up in the both the look-alike category and the written category. First place winners will receive $150 Angelika Cinemoney and runners-up will receive $75 Cinemoney.
Only 1 entry per contestant
By entering this contest, contestants acknowledge and agree that, if chosen as a winner or runner-up, their entry will be featured on the Angelika Film Center website (www.angelikafilmcenter.com), the Angelika Blog (www.angelikablog.com) or both.
The Angelika Film Center will own all submissions. Entries cannot be returned to contestants. Digital entries are strongly encouraged.
No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited.

Poultrygeist a NY Mag critic’s pick

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:03:02 +0000

Lloyd Kaufman’s latest Troma flick POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD won a thumbs up from New York Mag. Featuring no shortage of zombie chickens, a few song and dance numbers and a serious fast-food scandal, the campy cult legend will not disappoint his followers and fans.

Click here to read the review from NY Mag, and don’t miss POULTRYGEIST, opening this Friday, May 9 at the Village East Cinema.

And so it begins…SEX AND THE CITY craziness invades internet and earth

admin — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:10:06 +0000

Love it, hate it….pretend to hate it but really love it… whatever your feeling is, there’s a good chance you probably feel something about the upcoming SEX AND THE CITY movie. But if you’re still undecided, it seems that it won’t be too tough to find ample assistance in making up your mind. The first reviews, articles and “extended teasers” have popped-up this week, showing early signs of what’s bound to be a havoc-reeking Gucci-storm of reviews, press and non-stop media coverage until the May 30th premiere.

FoxNews.com called it “the Neiman Marcus catalog on steroids”, which, depending on your interests/values/opinion of steroids, is [intentionally?] vague and kind of indeterminate. New York Magazine also ran a feature-story on Sarah Jessica Parker in which they conclude that she is a total down to earth New Yorker- mom-at-the-playground lady who acts and “looks her age” (although the cover-photo seems to indicate she is still smitten with her favorite “glam-freak” Carrie Bradshaw pose), and YouTube has come upon a four-and-a-half minute sneak peak/press junket extravaganza that might have uber-fans tripping over their Manolos on the way to be first at the box office.

Glamorous, fun movie-version of the best television series ever created? It’s too early to say, but either way, you should probably still check it out, or risk feeling socially irrelevant until mid-June.

SEX AND THE CITY: THE MOVIE opens Friday, May 30 at the Angelika Dallas & Houston and at the Cinemas 1,2,3 and East 86th St. Cinemas in NYC.

Full articles/video at:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354130,00.html
http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/46660/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc6-k89Ht00

New Clips from BLOODLINE

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:53:57 +0000

Director Bruce Burgess’ controversial new film investigates the existence of a Jesus Christ/Mary Magdalene bloodline, a subject that has been at the head of a swirling debate for centuries. Below are two clips from Burgess and his film crew.

The first follows an exploration into underground tomb in the mountains of the Languedoc region of southwest France has been discovered, which may help substantiate the existence of a Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene bloodline.

The second features Bruce Burgess as he reflects on his meetings with members of the Priory of Sion.

BLOODLINE opens May 9 at the Village East Cinema.

Q&A with TRACEY FRAGMENTS director Bruce McDonald

admin — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:32:35 +0000

Bruce McDonald directs Academy Award nominated it-girl Ellen Page in the explosive TRACEY FRAGMENTS. The film follows Page as an emotionally unstable teenager navigating through a dangerous urban metropolis in search of her missing younger brother. Creatively edited in split-screen style, some have called this surreal story a modern day CATCHER IN THE RYE - McDonald takes a second to elaborate on that as well as some of our other questions below. THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS opens May 9 at the Village East Cinema.

Q: Did you have Ellen Page in mind to play Tracey before officially beginning the casting process?
A: We auditioned many actresses. Ellen was always on the radar. We met in person and discussed our mutual admiration for Patti Smith and the search was over.

Q: Do you think the success of JUNO will help draw new Ellen fans to the this film?
A: JUNO’s success will definitely draw new audiences of Ellen Page admirers to The Tracey Fragments much in the same way Rolling Stones fans herded toward Jean Luc Goddard when Godard made 1+1 Symphony For The Devil in 1968.

Q: How would you describe Tracey as a character?
A: She is whip smart, moody and romantic, she tends to exaggeraate everything which is a nice way to say she’s a bit of a liar. Tracey is Patti Smith at 15 years old.

Q: Maureen Medved, who wrote the original novel, also wrote the screenplay – was she quick to jump on board? What was her opinion about turning the novel into a film?
A: I optioned the novel by sending Maureen my cowboy boots in the mail – express – Toronto to Vancouver. The boots secured the deal and Maureen hesitated not for a moment on writing the screenplay. She had a very clear plan for the adaptation from novel to screen. She knew which large chunks of the novel to leave aside. Maureen has seen every film ever made – except for Crash (II), Far from the Madding Crowd and Ang Lee’s first movie. She understood that the book and the movie are completely different mediums and the best adaptations are often quite different from the original source.

Q: It seems like there have been a lot of films recently that focus on teenagers dealing with very serious, adult-like problems (JUNO, PARANOID PARK)… THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS is no exception… do you think this reflects at all on the state of the youth, or what it might actually mean to be fifteen?
A: Yes. These are all films made by people who listen well, who are trying to receive and channel that teenage world rather than trying to create the usual – and rather entertaining teenage worlds of Frankie Avalon, Josie and the Pussycats, The Brady Bunch, John Hughes movies, Hanna Montana or Britney Spears. Tracey has a lot more in common with Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye than she does with Hermione or Harry of the Harry Potter franchise.

Q: Why did you choose the band Broken Social Scene to score the film?
A: They are my favorite band. I love their music.

Q: What are you hoping audiences take from the story?
A: I hope the audiences take some hope from the story and some deeper respect for the wild and crazy- beautiful struggle of what it is to be fifteen.

The Tracey Fragments trailer

admin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:59:50 +0000

The Tracey Fragments, starring JUNO’s Ellen Page, opens May 9th at the Village East Cinema. Check out the trailer below.

The Visitor

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:16:12 +0000

THE VISITOR’S writer/director Thomas McCarthy (THE STATION AGENT) and star Richard Jenkins stopped by the Angelika Dallas, rounding out our recent press tour and giving us some inside info about the making of their upcoming film. Watch the video below.

THE VISITOR opens at the Angelika Dallas & Plano on Friday, May 2.

Snow Angels

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:45:02 +0000

SNOW ANGELS writer/director David Gordon Green and star Sam Rockwell stop by the Angelika couch for a quick interview. Watch below.

Catch SNOW ANGELS now at the Angelika Dallas.

Not your average chorus

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:09:31 +0000

Young @ Heart is a senior citizen’s choir group. They have been described as “old fogies singin’ songs”, but they aren’t singing Mary Had a Little Lamb. Tackling Kid Rock, Coldplay, The Clash, The Ramones and some choice disco, these folks are not the grandparents next door.

Two lovely choir members, Dora B. Morrow and Jack Schnepp, choral director Bob Cilman and the film’s director Stephen Walker, stopped off at the Angelika Dallas during a press tour to answer a few of our questions. Watch what they had to say below.

YOUNG@HEART opens at the Angelika Dallas & Plano on Friday, April 18. Seriously, don’t miss it.

Water Lilies is not appropriate for toddlers.

admin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:14:01 +0000

The hormones just about drip off the screen in WATER LILIES (NAISSANCE DES PIEUVRES), a sexually charged story about teenage French girls coming of age and wrestling, both literally and figuratively, with hetero and homosexual urges. Set amid an all-girls synchronized water ballet group, the film abounds in locker room and shower scenes populated by pubescent girls in various states of undress. Dirty old (and young) men and lesbians of every stripe will be the enthusiastic audience for this ravishing, painfully perceptive depiction of sexual awakenings among the young and the horny.

WATER LILIES, directed by Céline Sciamma, opens at the Angelika Houston and the Angelika Dallas on Friday, June 27.