Angelika Film Center
18 W. Houston Street,
New York,
NY
10012
18 W. Houston Street,
New York,
NY
10012
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Photo of the Angelika Film Center courtesy Nick’s Classic American Theatres.
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Here and here are 2009 shots of the Angelika Film Centre
Gotcha. Sounds like typical UA.
Those would be ads for openings that never occurred, not an odd situation in New York.
Once the right officials were properly bribed, the opening could then proceed.
This is what I found in the New York Times. The ad apparently ran on August 18th to August 20th, 1989.
By the way, all those films you mention were wide runs all over New York, not move-overs from the Angelika. The Angelika was intentionally opened with only specilised films.
KingBiscuits,
New theatres often have screening before opening but the Angelika did not officially open until September 29 and was a UA run house for several years, not one week.
Hey, it looks like that the August 18th, 1989 “false” opening did occur. After having been delayed from July 21st (a July 28th showing of Turner and Hooch was listed but played at the Cinema 3rd Avenue instead), the theatre opened as a United Artists theatre for one weekend. The films shown were Shell Shock, Emma’s Shadow, Cheetah and Let It Ride. After that week ended, the Criterion Center got Let It Ride and I don’t know who got Cheetah in the moveover). Wired was scheduled to open on August 25th there but instead played at the 8th Street Playhouse.
Approx. 1140 seats total
Renewing link.
Yesterday. Down escalator still out of service. Armrest in back row of Auditorium 6 broken. Popcorn : fantastic.
Here is a recent shot of the Angelika at night.
The first mainstream film to play at the Angelika was Look Who’s Talking on October 20th, 1989. I guess that they wanted some easy money (Look Who’s Talking was huge when it came out).
Four auditoriums, that is.
Actually, only four were open on September 29th, 1989. The fifth opened on October 4th, 1989 with Streetwise (I think it was a reissue of the 1985 film) and nine days later, all six were filled with Streetwise ending and Breaking In and Drugstore Cowboy opening.
There is an Angelika Film Center in Houston, Dallas and Plano.
The Angelika Film Center does indeed have a location in Houston, TX.
The actress' name is pronounced the same as the city in Texas. The street in NYC is pronounced HOW-ston St.
How quaint that the Angelika be located on Houstan Street a perfrect homage to the actress Angelika Houstan!
The theatre opened on September 29th, 1989 after being delayed from an opening date of August 18th, 1989. The premiere engagements were Shell Shock, Emma’s Shadow, The Navigator and Shirley Valentine. The former two were releases by Angelika Films and had their U.S. premieres at the theatre. Only four films are shown here but I imagine that Shirley Valentine and another film were interlocked.
I’ve never been to this theatre but I know two people who saw The Assassination Of Jesse James on opening night and really enjoyed the film. They also liked the theatre and its atmosphere, trains and all. Later on, they tried to book the film for their theatre (the Moxie Cinema in Springfield, Missouri) but were unable to do so due to another theatre getting it.
The film WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? was showh here at this theater on June 6, 2008
Here are some films that were shown at the ANGELIKA FILM CENTER from 2002 to today.
3/15/02- HARRISON’S FLOWERS
11/10/06- FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS
7/25/08- BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER movie list from 2002 to today.
4/12/02- THE SALTON SEA
4/19/02- THE CAT’S MEOW
4/19/02- ENIGMA
8/2/02- FULL FRONTAL
8/9/02- THE GOOD GIRL
9/20/02- SECRETARY
9/27/02- MOONLIGHT MILE
10/25/02- FRIDA
11/8/02- FAR FROM HEAVEN
12/27/02- NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
3/7/03- CITY OF GOD
4/18/03- A MIGHTY WIND
5/15/03- THE MATRIX RELOADED
10/3/03- THE STATION AGENT
10/17/03- SYLVIA
11/26/03- THE COOLER
3/26/04- NED KELLY
7/2/04- AMERICA’S HEART AND SOUL
7/2/04- BEFORE SUNSET
7/16/04- THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR
8/6/04- OPEN WATER
10/8/04- STAGE BEAUTY
10/22/04- THE MACHINIST
12/15/04- MILLION DOLLAR BABY
12/17/04- BEYOND THE SEA
12/22/04- HOTEL RWANDA
12/29/04- A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG
1/14/05- THE CHORUS
6/22/05- MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
6/24/05- RIZE
8/5/05- BROKEN FLOWERS
8/5/05- JUNEBUG
8/12/05- GRIZZLY MAN
9/16/05- PROOF
9/30/05- CAPOTE
10/7/05- THE SQUID AND THE WHALE
11/23/05- THE LIBERTINE
11/23/05- SYRIANA
12/9/05- MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS
2/24/06- TSOTSI
3/31/06- BRICK
4/7/06- KINKY BOOTS
4/14/06- HARD CANDY
5/5/06- ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
6/9/06- THE HEART OF THE GAME
7/21/06- CLERKS II
8/18/06- THE ILLUSIONIST
9/15/06- CONFETTI
9/22/06- THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP
9/30/06- THE QUEEN
10/6/06- LITTLE CHILDREN
12/15/06- THE GOOD GERMAN
12/20/06- THE PAINTED VEIL
12/27/06- NOTES ON A SCANDAL
12/27/06- PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER
2/2/07- FACTORY GIRL
2/23/07- THE LIVES OF OTHERS
3/9/07- THE NAMESAKE
4/13/07- YEAR OF THE DOG
5/18/07- THE GOLDEN DOOR
6/1/07- DAY WATCH
6/8/07- LA VIE EN ROSE
6/15/07- FIDO
6/22/07- YOU KILL ME
6/29/07- EVENING
7/4/07- RESCUE DAWN
7/27/07- ARCTIC TALE
8/3/07- BECOMING JANE
9/14/07- SILK
9/21/07- THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
9/28/07- FEAST OF LOVE
9/28/07- TRADE
10/5/07- THE GOOD NIGHT
10/12/07- LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
10/26/07- RAILS & TIES
11/2/07- DARFUR NOW
11/16/07- LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
11/16/07- MARGOT AT THE WEDDING
11/28/07- THE SAVAGES
11/30/07- THE DIVING AND THE BUTTERFLY
12/7/07- THE WALKER
12/25/07- PERSEPOLIS
2/8/08- IN BRUGES
2/29/08- CITY OF MEN
3/14/08- FUNNY GAMES
3/19/08- UNDER THE SAME MOON
4/4/08- MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS
4/11/08- SMART PEOPLE
5/2/08- SON OF RAMBOW
6/6/08- THE PROMOTION
7/3/08- THE WACKNESS
8/1/08- FROZEN RIVER
From the time Angelika opened in 1989, I attended many times on twice-annual trips to New York. Like Lincoln Plaza and other art houses, it was a place to see foreign and independent movies before they reached my hometown of Pittsburgh PA.
That said, I never enjoyed my trips Downtown to the Angelika because those six subterranean dungeons were dreary and uncomfortable. Once while in the nicest one, beneath the lobby, I found the ceiling was leaking into buckets.
After an experience in the mid to late 1990s, though, I resolved never to return and never did:
I had arrived late in the morning and purchased two tickets immediately – one for the first show in one auditorium and the other for the second performance in a different auditorium.
The food in the lobby had become so pricey I resolved to make do with the popcorn downstairs. I took the long escalator ride down and became the first customer of the morning at the popcorn stand.
While I waited for a bucket from the morning’s first batch, the attendant carried a large bucket of unpopped kernels toward the popcorn machine to pour the kernels into the top.
Just at that moment something knocked him in the feet, and the bucket of unpopped kernels was launched at least a foot into the air. The attendant looked down immediately, even as the kernels were ascending, and gasped, “What a big rat!”
I was stunned, as if someone had punched me, and I involuntarily took a step or two backwards from the concession stand. All of a sudden a rat the size of a tomcat darted out from behind the concession satand and made two sharp left turns. The attendant, who now had a ton of kernels to sweep up, and I looked at each other as if to say, “Did you see what I just saw?”
I got right back on the escalator, went to the ticket taker at the top and said I wanted my money back for both movies.
He phoned the manager’s offioce and said, “Some guy out here wants his money back for two movies” and, after pausing to listen to the manager, said to me, “Why?”
“Because there’s a big rat running around the popcorn stand downstairs,” I said.
The ticket taker said into the phone, “He said we have rats.” Without another word, he hung up the phone and nodded at me to go out to the box office. The young lady in the box office immediately answered her phone (presumably a call from the manager) and issued me my refunds without delay.
So I did get my money back, but I never returned.
When I told a New York friend about the experience, she responded, “And that’s why I won’t go to the Quad, either.” – Ed Blank
exterior shot taken nov 2007
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