Flagship location (The Cable Building, NoHo, New York City) The original Angelika Film Center & Café was opened by film producers Joseph and Angelika Saleh in 1989. The New York Angelika, which is located at
The Cable Building on the corner of
Houston and
Mercer Streets, is the flagship cinema.
Other locations Additionally, Angelika Film Center has opened six additional locations, one of which has closed: • In 1997, it opened a theater in
Houston, which was closed August 29, 2010. • In 2001, an Angelika opened in the
Mockingbird Station in
Dallas, Texas • In 2004, an Angelika opened in
Plano, Texas. • On October 9, 2015, a new location opened in
San Diego's North County, which was converted from a Reading Cinemas, another brand under its parent company, Reading International. •
Village East by Angelika in New York City, built in 1926, opened under the Angelika brand in 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
IFC Films. 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
blog 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. On March 5, 2021, they rebranded the Cinema 123 in
Midtown Manhattan and Village East Cinemas in
Greenwich Village 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. ==See also==