Angelika Film Center is a

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chain in the

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that features

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s. It operates theaters in

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. Its headquarters are in

History and locations

Flagship location ( The Cable Building, NoHo, New York City)

The original Angelika Film Center & Café opened in

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neighborhood in 1989. The New York Angelika, which is located at The Cable Building on the corner of

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and Mercer Streets, is the flagship cinema.

Other locations

Additionally, Angelika Film Center has opened 6 additional locations, one of which has closed: *In 1997, it opened a theater in

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, which was closed August 29, 2010.Culturemap.com
The Angelika suddenly closes: Houston loses its downtown film center. Retrieved on 2010-08-29 *In 2001, an Angelika opened in the

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ABOUT US
. Angelika Film Center. Retrieved on 2008-04-26. *In 2004, an Angelika opened in

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. *In the fall of 2012, an Angelika opened an 8-screen theater in the Mosaic District of

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. *In the summer of 2014, Angelika started operating a "Pop-Up" theater in

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, with plans for an expansion that ultimately fell through in the summer of 2016. *On October 9, 2015, a new location opened in

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’s North County. *

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in New York City, built 1926, opened under the Angelika brand 2021 Angelika 57, an art cinema in midtown Manhattan on 57th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, operated between 1993 and 1997.

Additional history

From 1997 to 2005, the Angelika Film Center was used as the set for ''At The Angelika'', a weekly TV series distributed by

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. The show moved to the IFC Center on Sixth Avenue and changed its name to ''At the IFC Center'' when that venue opened in June 2005. The Angelika launched a

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where they post their own video and written interviews with directors and actors that are involved with the films they show. The Angelika Film Center is owned by Reading International and iDNA, Inc. In ''Snowball Effect: The Story of

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'' (on the ''Clerks X'' DVD)

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and

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recall attending movies at the Angelika (notably

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's debut ''

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''). The film also mentions the disastrous first public screening of ''Clerks'' at the Independent Film Feature Market (the IFFM) and has a scene with Smith and

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standing outside the theatre. In November 2015,

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invited the public to join him in the Cable Building location as he watched the 29 movies that feature him back-to-back. While taking short coffee breaks, LaBeouf could be viewed almost continuously on a live-stream. On March 5, 2021, they rebranded the Cinema 123 in midtown Manhattan and Village East Cinemas in

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under Branded by Angelika. Both theaters previously operated as City Cinemas before their purchase in 2000 by Citadel Cinemas, an affiliate of Reading Entertainment, which were in turn consolidated on December 31, 2001 to form Reading International, the parent company of Reading Cinemas, which owns and operates the Angelika Film Center.

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