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Sundance Film Festival hit GUN HILL ROAD - which opened last weekend as the highest grossing independent film in the nation - continues through this weekend at the Angelika. Director Rashaad Green spent the weekend answering questions and discussing this moving film to sold out audiences every night, and we’re excited to announce he’ll be back for more Q&As!

WEDNESDAY 8/10 following the 6:00PM and 8:00PM shows

THURSDAY 8/11 following the 6:00PM and 8:00PM shows

FRIDAY 8/12 following the 8:00PM and 10:30PM shows

SATURDAY 8/13 following the 8:00PM and 10:30PM shows

SUNDAY 8/14 following the 4:00PM show

Advance tickets are available online.

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Buck Brannaman, the real life horse whisperer and star of Sundance Film Festival Audience Award Winner BUCK, visited the Angelikas Dallas and Plano opening last weekend to speak with Gwen Reyes of KSCS 96.3 Big Country and speak to audiences at the theaters. Check out the video below, then head over to our website to purchase tickets for this incredible documentary, playing at least through 7/14 at both Dallas and Plano.

ABOUT BUCK:

BUCK, a richly textured and visually stunning film, follows true American cowboy Buck Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. A real-life “horse-whisperer”, he eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. Winning the Audience Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, BUCK is about an ordinary man who has made an extraordinary life despite tremendous odds.

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PAGE ONE: A YEAR INSIDE

THE NEW YORK TIMES

JOIN US THIS WEEKEND AT THE ANGELIKA NEW YORK

FOR A SPECIAL Q&A FOLLOWING THE 6:15PM & 7:30PM SHOWS:

FRIDAY, JUNE 17 - REPORTER BRIAN STELTER

SATURDAY, JUNE 18 - DIRECTOR ANDREW ROSSI

ABOUT PAGE ONE:

Premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, PAGE ONE continues the tradition of great fly on the wall documentaries. Documentarian Andrew Rossi (EAT THIS NEW YORK, LE CIRQUE) deftly gains unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. Writers like Brian Stelter, Tim Arango and David Carr track print journalism’s metamorphosis even as their own paper struggles to stay vital and solvent, while their editors and publishers grapple with controversial new sources and new online pay walls. Meanwhile, rigorous journalism is thriving as PAGE ONE gives us an up close look at how the most venerable US newspaper comes to fruition very day.

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Jeff Lipsky (FLANNEL PAJAMAS, 2006 Sunday Film Festival Grand Jury Prize nominee) returns to the Angelika this week with TWELVE THIRTY. His latest intimate portrait stars Jonathan Groff (Jesse St. James on GLEE) as a virginal 22-year-old aspiring architect who pursues erotic encounters with two sisters and their mother in the upper-middle-class Langley family of Iowa City.

Mr. Lipsky spent the weekend at the Angelika Dallas regaling audiences with entertaining stories about the production of this and his other films. Watch one of the Q&A sessions, moderated by the Dallas Video Society’s Bart Weiss, below:

TWELVE THIRTY is playing at the Angelika Dallas now through this Thursday, May 26 - tickets are available online.

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Nominee for Best Animated Feature at this year’s Academy Awards THE ILLUSIONIST came out on DVD this week. Director of the Dallas Video Association Bart Weiss hosted a Q&A with animator Justin Hall and production manager Fiona Hall in February to welcome them to the neighborhood (they had recently moved to Dallas!) and discuss this lovely film.

Check out the video below, then add THE ILLUSIONIST to your Netflix queue!

ABOUT THE ILLUSIONIST
Academy Award nominee Sylvain Chomet (THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE) directs this adaptation of a never before produced script written by legendary French filmmaker Jacques Tati. Set in post-war Edinburgh, this exquisitely animated, mostly silent homage to the stage entertainer. At once melancholy and heartwarmingly nostalgic, THE ILLUSIONIST tells the tale of a vaudeville magician who, forced out of the limelight by the rise of rock ‘n’ roll, must face the inevitable fact that there may no longer be a place for him in show business.

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DALLAS International Film Festival hit SKATELAND opens this weekend at the Angelika Dallas - director Anthony Burns, actor Heath Freeman, writer/producer Brandon Freeman, and producer Justin Gilley will be in attendance at the 7:10PM show tomorrow evening, Saturday 5/21 for a Q&A following the show!

We sat down with Mr. Freeman last week to discuss the film - watch the interview below, then head over to Fandango to purchase tickets for the 7:10PM Saturday show before they sell out!

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THE FIRST GRADER opens this Friday at the Angelika Film Center New York.  Q&As with Director Justin Chadwick will follow the Friday, 5/13 and Saturday 5/14 7:30pm shows. Director Justin Chadwick, producer Sam Feuer and star Naomie Harris stopped by earlier this week to sign our Wall of Fame! 

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Tickets for the Angelika are available online. THE FIRST GRADER will also be playing at the Beekman - check their website for showtimes, ticket, and Q&A info.

About THE FIRST GRADER:

One of the biggest crowd pleasers of this year’s festival circuit, FIRST GRADER is the unlikely true story of Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, and 84-year-old Kenyan farmer and former Mau Mau tribesman who took advantage of his country’s new free-education program to attend the first grade and learn to read.  Reluctant to admit an octogenarian alongside 6-year-olds, the school authorities also let tribal rivalries contribute to their suspicion of Maruge.  The film was the runner up to THE KING’S SPEECH for the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival, won the Audience Award at Doha Tribeca Film Festival and was embraced by audiences at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival, where it debuted.  Director Justin Chadwick (THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, BBC’s BLEAK HOUSE) strikes a perfect balance between humor and tragic gravity, resulting in an uplifting story likely to stir the hearts of audiences worldwide.

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Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram, and director Keith Bearden spent the weekend with us to discuss their hilarious new film MEET MONICA VELOUR. They’ll be back for a Q&A tonight 5/1 following the 7:10PM show - tickets are still available at online.

ABOUT MEET MONICA VELOUR:

In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram, TV series UNFABULOUS) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall, SEX AND THE CITY), his favorite ‘80’s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet. A starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush, befriends Monica, further complicating her difficult life. Kim Cattrall gives a career-defining performance in this offbeat love story that appeals to the dreamer – and the nerd – in all of us.

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“I have seen pictures of Stan’s work and it is still incredible . . . but it doesn’t come close to the catharsis of seeing it on an epic scale. No one owns a tv big enough to truly experience this film. “

EARTHWORK is the true story of real life crop artist Stan Herd (played by Academy Award nominee John Hawkes) who leaves his native Kansas to risk it all, planting his unique, rural art form in New York City with the help of a group of homeless characters on a plot of land owned by Donald Trump.

Filmmaker Chris Ordal graciously answered our questions about his debut feature film and will be available with the real life Stan Herd for your questions at Q&A sessions following the 7:30PM shows on Friday and Saturday.

This is your debut feature film, how did you choose the subject?

It sounds crazy, but I knew the second I heard a friend casually mention Stan’s New York story that I was going to make a film about it - and not in a general sense - I had an immediate vision of a narrative feature exploring that single episode of Stan’s life, focused on his relationship with the homeless growing in concert with the art he was planting and exploring what that work of art did to those characters. It was a literal gut reaction; I just had a hunch and went with it.I had been wanting to make my debut feature something that set itself apart from other independent films, but I wanted to do so in a way that emphasized story and not style or shock value. I wasn’t interested in making a calling card, I was focused on making a film whose story would be as relevant many years from now as it was the moment I wrote it. When Stan’s story landed in my lap, it just fit. You only get one chance to make your first film, and EARTHWORK is the story that most inspired me.

How did you first hear of crop artist, Stan Herd?

I was going to school at KU…

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