The Art of World Animation: Zarafa – Two Days Only Saturday, October 17th & Sunday, October 18th

Watch Trailer Director: Rémi Bezançon and Jean-Christophe Lie
Writer(s): Alexander Abela and Rémi Bezançon
Cast: Max Renaudin Pratt, Simon Abkarian and François-Xavier Demaison

Under a baobab tree, an old man tells a story to the children around him: The story of the friendship between Maki, a little boy, and Zarafa, an orphaned giraffe. Hassan, Prince of the Desert, is instructed by the Pasha to deliver Zarafa to France. But Maki has made up his mind to do everything in his power to stop Hassan from fufiling his mission and to bring the giraffe back to its native land – even if it means risking his own life.

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Running Time: 78 minutes78 MIN
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Sustainability Series: COTTON ROAD

Watch Trailer Director: Laura Kissel
Writer(s): Laura Kissel
Language: English

Americans consume nearly 20 billion new items of clothing each year. Yet few of us know how our clothes are made, much less who produces them. COTTON ROAD follows the commodity of cotton from South Carolina farms to Chinese factories to illuminate the work and industrial processes in a global supply chain.

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Running Time: 72 minutes72 MIN
Not Rated
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Sustainability Series: OPEN SESAME

Watch Trailer Director: M. Sean Kaminsky
Cast: Bill McDorman, Vandana Shiva, Jeffrey Smith
Language: English

One of the world’s most precious resources is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving documentary illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink… but given far less attention.

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Running Time: 82 minutes82 MIN
Not Rated
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Digging for Fire: Leaving Thursday, September 24th

Watch Trailer Director: Joe Swanberg
Writer(s): Joe Swanberg, Jake Johnson
Cast: Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom

Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim’s discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn’t want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.

“Equal parts film noir, relationship drama, dark comedy and mood piece, Digging for Fire is a movie made by someone who clearly loves the art of movies.” -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

“…an attractively shot, gracefully edited and, finally, emotionally satisfying mystery about the nature of marriage itself.” -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

“The film has an appealing honesty and an enjoyably low-key comic style.” -A.O. Scott, New York Times

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Running Time: 85 min85 MIN
R Rated

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Grandma: Leaving the Athena Thursday, October 1st

Watch Trailer Director: Paul Weitz
Writer(s): Paul Weitz
Cast: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden

Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle’s granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.

“A sublime match of performer and role.” – David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

“It gives a national treasure who never asked to become one, Lily Tomlin, a showcase to display everything she’s got as a performer, especially the offhand courage to not play at being likable.” – Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News

*Closed Caption and Visual Impairment devices are available for this film.

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Running Time: 79 min79 MIN
R Rated

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Sustainability Series: BLACK ICE

Watch Trailer Director: Maarten van Rouveroy
Language: English

When a Greenpeace ship was seized at gunpoint by Russian special forces, the “Arctic 30” were thrust into headlines all over the world, facing up to 15 years in prison and finding themselves at the center of a bitter international dispute. Russia charged the crew, from 18 different countries, with piracy and hooliganism. But their resolve to try and stop oil drilling in the Arctic was never broken.

*Free admission provided by Environmental Studies Program at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs, Alden Library, Athena Cinema, the College of Arts & Sciences Sustainability Studies and Food Studies Themes and Office of Sustainability at Ohio University.*

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Running Time: 53 minutes53 MIN
Not Rated
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Sustainability Series: JUST EAT IT

Watch Trailer Director: Grant Baldwin
Writer(s): Jenny Rustemeyer, Grant Baldwin
Cast: Grant Baldwin, Jenny Rustemeyer, Dana Gunders
Language: English

Jen and Grant dive into the issue of food waste from farm, through retail. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year, they pledge to survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away. But as Grant’s addictive personality turns full tilt towards food rescue, the ‘thrill of the find’ has unexpected consequences.

 

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Running Time: 75 minutes75 MIN
Not Rated
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Knowing the Future: FANTASTIC VOYAGE

Watch Trailer Director: Richard Fleischer
Writer(s): Harry Kleiner (screenplay), David Duncan (adaptation)
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien
Language: English

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Presented with FREE ADMISSION by the College of Arts & Sciences’ Knowing the Future theme. Check out more films showing this semester as part of the Knowing the Future Series.

“Their voyage through the body’s bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era.” TV Guide’s Movie Guide

“With such titles as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, the 1960s proved to be a particularly rich decade for science fiction cinema, and Fantastic Voyage stands as one of the period’s most imaginative efforts.” – Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

 

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Running Time: 100 minutes100 MIN
PG Rated

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND presented by OU Libraries

Watch Trailer Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Writer(s): Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William Cameron Menzies, Lewis Carroll
Cast: Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields

This star-laden, 1933  of Lewis Carroll’s novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll’s sequel, Through the Looking Glass. Showing one night only as part of Ohio University Libraries celebration of 150 years of Alice in Wonderland! Admission is free.

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Running Time: 76 minutes76 MIN

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Phoenix: Leaving Thursday, September 17th

Watch Trailer Director: Christian Petzold
Writer(s): Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Language: German

A spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany in the stunning new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Barbara, Jerichow). Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, Nelly emerges with a new face, one similar but different enough that her former husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), doesn’t recognize her. Rather than reveal herself, Nelly walks into a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise as she tries to figure out if the man she loves may have been the one who betrayed her to the Nazis. Evoking the shadows and haunted mood of post-war Berlin, Phoenix weaves a complex tale of a nation’s tragedy and a woman’s search for answers as it builds towards an unforgettable, heart-stopping climax.

“Provocative, profoundly moving and the acting is virtuosic.” -John Anderson, Newsday

“‘Phoenix’ is an intoxicating witches’ brew, equal parts melodrama and moral parable, that audaciously mixes diverse elements to compelling, disturbing effect.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“Beautiful and mysteriously powerful from beginning to end.” -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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Running Time: 98 minutes98 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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