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Science on Screen: APOLLO 13 with Dean Dennis Irwin, Ph.D

Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon

The Athena Presents: Science on Screen — a Science Movie Mash-Up.
A project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Coolidge Corner Theater. The Science on Screen program pairs with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging and offer dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.
Dr. Irwin will talk about the technological, political, and societal context at the time of the Apollo 13 mission. He will also deliver a personal message from one of the Apollo 13 astronauts.

Since 1985, Irwin has worked on inertial precision pointing systems with astronomical applications including the Spacelab Instrument Pointing System and the Hubble Space Telescope. He has also provided test data analysis services for Space Shuttle Main Engine flight readiness and safety decisions.

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Running Time: 140 minutes140 MIN
PG Rated
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Spring Sustainability Series: THE MESSENGER

Watch Trailer Director: Su Rynard

Su Rynard’s wide-ranging and contemplative documentary The Messenger explores our deep-seated connection to birds and warns that the uncertain fate of songbirds might mirror our own. Moving from the northern reaches of the Boreal Forest to the base of Mount Ararat in Turkey to the streets of New York, The Messenger brings us face-to-face with a remarkable variety of human-made perils that have devastated thrushes, warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks and many other airborne music-makers.

“Their findings unequivocally caution on the necessity of averting the birds’ extinction because they are an integral part of the ecological system… The slow-motion close-ups alone should convince you these magnificent creatures are well worth the effort.” – Martin Tsai, The Los Angeles Times

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Running Time: 89 minutes89 MIN
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4/20: REEFER MADNESS

Watch Trailer Director: Louis J. Gasnier
Writer(s): Lawrence Meade, Arthur Hoerl, Paul Franklin
Cast: Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles

MARIHUANA IS THAT DRUG—A VIOLENT NARCOTIC—AN UNSPEAKABLE SCOURGE—THE REAL PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE!
Enjoy the cult classic, “granddaddy of all so-bad-it’s-good” films. A high-school principal accounts a story illustrating the dangerous consequences of marijuana use.
One of the most absurdly earnest exercises in paranoia you’ll ever have the good fortune to see. — Time Out

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Running Time: 68 minutes68 MIN
PG Rated

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UNAPOLOGETICALLY SPOKEN: Premieres Friday, April 21st

Unapologetically Spoken examines how performance art allows individuals to explore and express the many facets of their identity. A Trew Story Production, this student made documentary follows 3 poets as they prepare for a performance art show and highlights what it takes to give a performance and the affects those performances have on the audience.

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SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN – Nelsonville Music Festival Screening Party

Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Writer(s): Malik Bendjelloul
Awards: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Athena Cinema and Nelsonville Music Festival present a one night only screening of the Academy Award winning film: Searching for Sugar Man.

Searching for Sugar Man tells the incredible true story of Rodriguez, the greatest ’70s rock icon who never was. Discovered in a Detroit bar in the late ’60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, they recorded an album which they believed would secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon. The film follows the story of two South African fans who set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation leads them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.

The legendary Rodriguez will play Nelsonville Music Festival this year on Friday, June 2nd! It seemed only fitting to screen the acclaimed documentary that led to the discovery of his amazing music by a whole new generation. This event is FREE! We will also have discounted tickets available for NMF and much more!

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Running Time: 86 minutes86 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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ARTS/West presents a Ratha Con special screening of: THE ASSASSIN’S APPRENTICE and OCCUPANTS

The Athena Cinema is proud to be a sponsor of the 2017 annual, Ratha Con. Ratha Con is Athens, Ohio’s only pop culture convention and it encourages community members to geek out and connect with other fans like them. In conjunction with ARTS/West the Athena will be showing two special film screenings by award winning director Russell Emanuel.

Occupants

Running Time: 81 minutes
Director: Russell Emanuel
Writer: Julia Camara
Cast: Robert Picardo, Briana White, Michael Pugliese

Occupants is a film about Annie, an award-winning documentarian and her husband Neil. Annie and Neil embark on a “30 Days of Clean Living” documentary, setting up cameras all over their house to document their new eating habits. By doing so, half of their cameras capture a parallel version of themselves – a version that isn’t what they expected, with horrific results.

“Occupants” is a tense and very eerie thriller that Emanuel and writer Julia Camara crafts in to an entertaining and absolutely compelling film — Felix Vasquez, Cinema Crazed

 

The Assassin’s Apprentice

Running Time: 12 minutes
Director: Russell Emanuel
Writer: Paul Hickman
Cast: Marina Sirtis, Robert Picardo, Tarah Paige

A master assassin (Robert Picardo) sends his rebellious apprentice (Tarah Paige) on her first solo hit – but things don’t go according to plan.

A talkback with director Russell Emanuel will follow the screenings.

Originally from San Francisco, Russ Emanuel grew up in both Japan and the United States, garnering an international viewpoint of the world throughout his childhood. After graduating from the University of Southern California to study Cinema-Television, International Relations and Japanese (and gaining more production experience at the UCLA Extension Program), he founded Russem Productions in 2002, in order to promote his short films including Her Knight (2003), the award-winning Girl With Gun (2005), and the documentary Restoration of Paradise (2014).

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THE EAGLE HUNTRESS: Last Day Thursday, January 19th

Watch Trailer Director: Otto Bell
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Aisholpan

*CaptiView® Closed Caption & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions.

The Eagle Huntress follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been handed down from father to son for centuries. Set against the breath-taking expanse of the Mongolian steppe, The Eagle Huntress features some of the most awe-inspiring cinematography ever captured in a documentary, giving this intimate tale of a young girl’s quest the dramatic force of an epic narrative film. After months of training her eagle with her father, Aisholpan is ready to test her abilities. She enters a renowned competition, the Golden Eagle Festival, and faces off against 70 of the greatest Kazakh eagle hunters in Mongolia. The most arduous challenge is yet to come, as the rite-of-passage for every young eagle hunter is to take part in a hunt. Aisholpan must ride with her father deep into the frigid mountains and endure 40 below zero temperatures and perilous landscapes to prove she is a true eagle huntress.

The Eagle Huntress is executive produced and narrated by Star Wars‘ Daisy Ridley.

“An enchanting tale of girl power.” — Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times

 

 

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Running Time: 87 min87 MIN
G Rated

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LOVING: Last Day Monday, January 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer(s): Jeff Nichols
Cast: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton
Awards: GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS - Best Actor (Drama), Best Actress (Drama)

*CaptiView® Closed Caption & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions.

From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since.

“The real artistry of Loving… is in the quiet grace Negga and Edgerton bring to one of recent history’s most important romances.” -USA Today

“It doesn’t trumpet its importance obnoxiously, and it’s packed with performances of quiet power, with Negga as the breakout.” -BuzzFeed News

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Running Time: 123 min123 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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It doesn’t trumpet its importance obnoxiously, and it’s packed with performances of quiet power, with Negga as the breakout.

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Science on Screen: HIDDEN FIGURES with Dr. Sarah Wyatt

Watch Trailer Director: Theodore Melfi
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe

Science on Screen℠ is a project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Coolidge Corner Theater. The Science on Screen program pairs with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging and offer dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

Dr. Sarah Wyatt is a professor in Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University and a long time space enthusiast.  Her research focuses on plant responses to gravity, and in 2015, she was fortunate enough to fly one of her experiments aboard the International Space Station.

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me-on-a-ledgeDr. Sarah Wyatt will speak at the Science on Screen event with “Hidden Figures”

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Running Time: 127 minutes127 MIN
PG Rated
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Inauguration Day: IDIOCRACY

Watch Trailer Director: Mike Judge
Writer(s): Mike Judge
Cast: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Private Joe Bowers (Wilson), the definition of “average American”, is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program, set 545 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he’s easily the most intelligent person alive.

“There’s a good chance that Judge’s smartly lowbrow Idiocracy will be mistaken for what it’s satirizing, but good satire always runs the risk — of being misunderestimated.”-The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin

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Running Time: 84 minutes84 MIN
R Rated

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