Blue Sky Icon TikTok Icon

The Met: Live in HD: Handel’s AGRIPPINA

Language: Itallian

As the imperious title empress, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of Handel’s tale of deception and deceit. Harry Bicket conducts Sir David McVicar’s wry new production, which gives this Baroque black comedy a politically charged, modern updating.

Admission $18 (students & children $8)

OHIO Student: Free

Thanks to Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.

Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:

Click on showtimes below for individual tickets.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 250 MIN250 MIN
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

HONEY BOY: Last Day Tuesday, December 24th

Watch Trailer Director: Alma Har'el
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe

From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har’el brings to life a young actor’s stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalizing his childhood ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har’el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as Otis Lort, navigating different stages in a frenetic career. LaBeouf takes on the daring and therapeutic challenge of playing a version of his own father, an ex-rodeo clown and a felon.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 93 min93 MIN
R Rated
Closed Captioning is available for this film. Open Captioning is available for this film. Listening Aids are available for this film. Descriptive Aids are available for this film. This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

It’s an intensely personal project for writer and star Shia LaBeouf, one that walks a thin tightrope but pays off beautifully.

Alissa Wilkinson
Vox
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Science on Screen® with Dr. Temple Grandin

Watch Trailer

Limited seating available!

Please note that the Frontiers In Science Lecture in Baker Center Ballroom, on Monday evening at 7:30 p.m., is un-ticketed and seating is available on a first-come, first serve basis.

 

Join us for a pre-show talk from Dr. Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University.

Her talk will be followed by a sensory friendly screening of the HBO biopic, Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes. Our projectionist will keep sound levels slightly below the set range and keep some lights on to create a comfortable setting for all patrons, including those on the autism spectrum.

About the speaker

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Temple Grandin’s achievements are remarkable because she was an autistic child. At age two she had no speech and all the signs of severe autism. Many hours of speech therapy, and intensive teaching enabled Temple to learn speech. As a teenager, life was hard with constant teasing. Mentoring by her high school science teacher and her aunt on her ranch in Arizona motivated Temple to study and pursue a career as a scientist and livestock equipment designer.

Dr. Temple Grandin obtained her B.A. at Franklin Pierce College in 1970. In 1975 she earned her M.S. in Animal Science at Arizona State University for her work on the behavior of cattle in different squeeze chutes. Dr. Grandin was awarded her Ph.D in Animal Science from the University of Illinois in 1989 and is currently a Professor at Colorado State University.

About the film

Director Mick Jackson teams with screenwriters Christopher Monger and William Merritt Johnson to tell the story of autistic icon Temple Grandin, a woman who refused to let her disorder limit her true potential. Adapted from Grandin’s own writings, the film allows the audience to experience the world much like she does while recounting her colorful life and remarkable achievements from childhood to adulthood.

Doors open at 12:00 p.m.

Event begins at 12:30 p.m.

Science on Screen events offer free admission but are ticketed. Tickets are available in person at the Athena Cinema one week in advance.

For more information on Dr. Grandin’s Frontiers in Science lecture, Educating All Kinds of Minds, click here.

Return

Return

Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

 

Free admission to this event is provided by Arts for OHIO.

 

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 107 min107 MIN
PG Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Sustainability Series: THE WOMAN WHO LOVES GIRAFFES

Watch Trailer Director: Alison Reid

In Celebration of World Wildlife Day March 3rd!

Dr. Anne Innis Dagg re-traces the steps of her groundbreaking 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild – and discovers a startling contrast between the world of giraffes she once knew and the one it has become. Weaving through the past and present, her harrowing journey gives us an intimate look into the factors that destroyed her career and the forces that brought her back.

Free admission and post-show discussion, as part of the Spring Sustainability Series.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 83 min83 MIN
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

Alison Reid deserves high praise for fine storytelling, combining ecology and social-justice issues while focusing on a woman ahead of her times, whose ambitions were thwarted by institutional sexism.

Bruce DeMara
Toronto Star
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

THE LIGHTHOUSE

Watch Trailer Director: Robert Eggers
Writer(s): Robert Eggers, Max Eggers
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe

From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

 

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 110 MIN110 MIN
R Rated
Closed Captioning is available for this film. Open Captioning is available for this film. Listening Aids are available for this film. Descriptive Aids are available for this film. This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

It leaves you dazed, terrified and elated, and it signals Eggers as one of the most exciting directors working today.

Joseph Walsh
Time Out
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

(CANCELLED) The Met: Live in HD: Wagner’s DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

Watch Trailer Language: German

*This production has been cancelled and will no longer be airing at the Athena Cinema on March 14th.*

From the Metropolitan Opera:

“In light of the evolving coronavirus COVID-19 situation and in consultation with the office of the Mayor of New York City, Saturday’s performance of Der Fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera has been canceled. Therefore the scheduled Live in HD transmission has also been canceled. The Met is following the lead of the city, state, and federal elected officials, as well as the recommendations of the Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). We apologize for any inconvenience.”

Evgeny Nikitin takes the stage as the mysterious seafarer searching for salvation. Director François Girard, whose mesmerizing production of Parsifal recently wowed Met audiences, returns to stage Wagner’s eerie early masterwork.

Admission $18 (students & children $8)

OHIO Student: Free

Thanks to Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.

Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:

Click on showtimes below for individual tickets.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 139 MIN139 MIN
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Women Pioneers: SUFFRAGETTE

Watch Trailer Director: Sarah Gavron
Writer(s): Abi Morgan
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter

Maud (Carey Mulligan) is a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life.

Free admission, as part of our Women Pioneers Series, celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage.

Post-show discussion with OU’s Dr. Carey Snyder.

This spring, the Athena is proud to present four profound films celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. All shows feature intros and post-show talks, and all shows are free admission.

This series is sponsored by Ohio University Libraries, School of Film, Multicultural Center, Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Margaret Boyd Scholars, English Department, History Department, Women’s Center, and Arts for Ohio.

Click here for a full listing of events celebrating the centennial.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 106 minutes106 MIN
PG-13 Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

It's always compelling; you feel grateful, watching, that this story is being told at all.

Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

FANTASTIC FUNGI DAY

Watch Trailer Director: Louie Schwartzberg

“Fantastic Fungi,” the critically lauded and audience-loved documentary makes its return to The Athena Cinema for one night only in a worldwide streaming event. A simulcast featuring director Louie Schwartzberg, mycologist Paul Stamets and other special guests included.

Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom offer us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 74 min74 MIN
Not Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

One of the year's most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing and yes, immensely entertaining triumphs.

Matt Fagerholm
RogerEbert.com
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

JOKER: Last Day Thursday, November 14th

Watch Trailer Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz

Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Joker” stars Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, alongside Oscar winner Robert De Niro, and is directed, produced and co-written by Oscar nominee Todd Phillips.

“Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck (Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 122 min122 MIN
R Rated
Closed Captioning is available for this film. Open Captioning is available for this film. Listening Aids are available for this film. Descriptive Aids are available for this film. This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

This is a truly nightmarish vision of late-era capitalism - arguably the best social horror film since Get Out - and Joaquin Phoenix is magnetic in it.

Philip De Semlyen
Time Out
Read full story · Comments { 0 }

WHERE’S MY ROY COHN?: Last Day Thursday, November 7th

Watch Trailer Director: Matt Tyrnauer

One of the most controversial and influential American men of the 20th Century, Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.

Share this Film

Click on Showtimes to Get Tickets Online
Running Time: 97 min97 MIN
PG-13 Rated
Closed Captioning is available for this film. Open Captioning is available for this film. Listening Aids are available for this film. Descriptive Aids are available for this film. This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

"Where's My Roy Cohn?" makes it clear that his influence is still felt today, all the way to the White House.

Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
Read full story · Comments { 0 }