Masters Mix Tape: THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Watch Trailer Director: Penelope Spheeris
Cast: Alice Bag Band, Alice Bag, Claude Bessey

“See it in a theater… where you can’t get hurt,” The Decline of Western Civilization provides a no-holds barred look at the underground punk scene in the late 70s/early 80s. After its midnight release in 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police wrote a letter to director Penelope Spheeris, (who went on to direct two sequels as well as the cult classic Wayne’s World), demanding that she never show the film in Los Angeles again. She did not obey his request.

Feat. Alice Bag Band • Black Flag • Circle Jerks • Catholic Discipline • Fear • Germs • X

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Running Time: 100 minutes100 MIN
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A bracing, stimulating and technically superb close-up look at the LA punk scene, pic is pitched at a perfect distance to allow for simultaneous engagement in the music and spectacle, and for rueful contemplation of what it all might mean.

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Universal Premiere: HAPPY DEATH DAY

Watch Trailer Director: Christopher Landon
Cast: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine

Blumhouse (Split, Get Out, Whiplash) produces an original and inventive rewinding thriller in Happy Death Day, in which a college student (Jessica Rothe, La La Land) relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity. Happy Death Day is directed by Christopher Landon (Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) and written by Scott Lobdell and Landon.

See Happy Death Day more than a week before its release date for FREE at the Athena! Tickets will not be available for pre-sale. Tickets will become available at the box office starting at 4PM on the day of the show, and will be given out on a first come, first serve basis.

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Sustainability Series: TIDEWATER, RAINMAKERS OF NGANYI, & THE CALL FROM THE SEA

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Tidewater

Tidewater explores the challenge of sea level rise in Virginia and North Carolina, encompassing Hampton Roads, arguably the region whose vulnerability most affects our overall national security. An area rich in diversity and historical significance, it is the second most vulnerable community in the U.S. to sea level rise, after New Orleans. Tidewater will highlight the innovative whole-of-government problem-solving model being pioneered by local leaders.

Rainmakers of Nganyi

Researchers at Kenyan universities were faced with a problem: the weather forecasts that they were providing weren’t being taken seriously. The people did not trust the scientific forecasts and listened only to traditional rainmakers. So the researchers began to use rainmakers as communication agents in an attempt to convince people to listen to their forecasts. But then they started to notice striking similarities between their predictions and those of the rainmakers. Were they really forecasters? Were they really meteorologists? And can they make it rain?

The Call from the Sea

The Bajau are an indigenous, sea nomadic group that live on top of the ocean in Indonesia. This short documentary looks at the ocean through the Bajau’s eyes. A poetic, personal story about the fragile state of the ocean and the people who live closest to it.

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WIND RIVER

Watch Trailer Director: Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones

Wind River is a chilling thriller that follows a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past (Jeremy Renner) to investigate the murder of a local girl on a remote Native American Reservation in the hopes of solving her mysterious death. Written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, Wind River also stars Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, Julia Jones, Kelsey Asbille, and James Jordan.

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Running Time: 111 minutes111 MIN
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The mood is tense, the characters are well-drawn and director-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan has crafted some of the best dialogue of any movie this year.

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Food on Film: BUGS

Watch Trailer Director: Andreas Johnsen
Cast: Josh Evans, Roberto Flore, Ben Reade

 

Series Description:
What’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner are universal questions, and what’s on your plate reveals much about your culture and society. The Food on Film series serves up films that highlight not only the cuisines of different countries but also ways in which the food we eat tells the stories of our lives.

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Each film screening will be followed by a discussion.

Will eating insects save our Earth?

Insects as food is a hot topic. Particularly over the last few years, since the UN recommended edible insects as a resource to combat world hunger, they have been heralded for their taste by cooks and gastronomes, for their low ecological impact by environmentalists and for their nutritional content by public health scientists. It would seem that insects are the new superfood that will fix all our problems of global food security.

For the past three years, a team from Copenhagen-based Nordic Food Lab, made up of chefs and researchers Josh Evans, Ben Reade and Roberto Flore, has been travelling the world to learn what some of the two billion people who already eat insects have to say. In BUGS, film director Andreas Johnsen follows them as they forage, farm, cook and taste insects with communities in Europe, Australia, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and beyond. During their journey they encounter everything from revered termite queens and desert-delicacy honey ants to venomous giant hornets and long-horned grasshoppers.

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Running Time: 76 minutes76 MIN
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BUGS is one of most compelling documentaries about food in the past few years.

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Art House Theater Day

Art House Theater Day celebrates the legacy of independent theaters as advocates for cinema arts. In an age where media has become more digital than tangible, more solitary than social, art house theaters remain the physical spaces where film lovers congregate and connect with intrepid, creative filmmaking. They are the beating heart for new and exciting cinema that is shaping the future of the medium.

In recent decades, a colorful constellation of art houses has emerged across the globe. This art house movement has nurtured a flourishing ecosystem of adventurous audiences, independent productions, and an incredible diversity of original filmmaking. Art House Theater Day is a worldwide celebration in honor of this movement, a day to celebrate cinemas that stand the test of time and the tremendous film culture that art house theaters promote.

Student tickets are free thanks to Arts for Ohio. Regular matinee admission ($5.00) applies to non-students. Free ticketing for students will be offered for our Masters Mix Tape screening of The Last Waltz at 7:00PM as well.

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Masters Mix Tape: BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

Watch Trailer Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Compay Segundo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González

Celebrated director Wim Wenders travels through the beautiful tropic of Cuba with guitarist Ry Cooder and his son, Joachim to gather the country’s finest but sadly forgotten aging musicians to band together and create the ultimate album. The culmination is a once-in-a-lifetime performance unlike anything seen or heard before in this Oscar nominated documentary.

Feat. Buena Vista Social Club

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Running Time: 105 minutes105 MIN
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Infectious, intoxicating joy is the emotion conveyed in every frame of this ravishing, exuberant documentary.

Hal Hinson
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Food on Film: KING CORN

Watch Trailer Director: Curt Ellis, Ian Cheney, Aaron Woolf
Cast: Bob Bledsoe, Earl L. Butz, Dawn Cheney
Awards: Peabody

 

Series Description:
What’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner are universal questions, and what’s on your plate reveals much about your culture and society. The Food on Film series serves up films that highlight not only the cuisines of different countries but also ways in which the food we eat tells the stories of our lives.

Additional Information:
Each film screening will be followed by a discussion.

King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
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Simultaneously nostalgic and sinister, King Corn mixes full-blown Americana with fast-food follies in the Iowa heartland.

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Beat the Heat: THE RED BALLOON and MODERN TIMES

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Beat the Heat Double Feature Finale Event

August 5th, 2017 Schedule:

3:00: THE RED BALLOON

3:45-4:00: Intermission

4:00: Charlie Chaplin’s MODERN TIMES featuring a live music performance by André Gribou and Roger Braun (Duo Unprepared)

 

Join us for an unforgettable finale to our Beat the Heat $2 Family Film Series on Saturday, August 5th when we show two movie classics: 1956’s iconic French short The Red Balloon, followed by Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, complete with live piano accompaniment! A perfect day out for children and film lovers of all ages, all for just a minimum $2 donation to Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Athens County per ticket. Seating will be limited, so get your tickets early for a once-in-a-lifetime show that supports a great cause!

THE RED BALLOON

Six-year old petit garçon Pascal Lamorisse and the biggest, shiniest ballon rouge ever–25,000 were used during shooting–share near dialogue-less adventures tagging after each other through the old Belleville section of Paris. Perhaps the most acclaimed short film of all time, The Red Balloon won the Palme d’Or for court métrage at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, making it the only short ever given an Oscar for a feature category.

MODERN TIMES

Charlie Chaplin stars as an assembly-line worker driven insane by the monotony of his job. After a long spell in an asylum, he searches for work, only to be mistakenly arrested as a Red agitator. Released after foiling a prison break, Chaplin makes the acquaintance of orphaned gamine (Paulette Goddard) and becomes her friend and protector.

Modern Times will feature live musical accompaniment by Duo Unprepared!

 

About Duo Unprepared

 

Roger Braun (percussion) and Andre Gribou (pianos) have worked together in a wide variety of performance settings since 2000. While this includes completely improvised music – where they found they had an unusual chemistry – they also perform frequently together in classical, jazz, and world music settings. As their affinity for performing improvised music together grew they began to collaborate with other artists including world-renown improvisational dancers, Chris Aiken and Angie Hauser. Braun and Gribou have appeared on numerous concert series including Washington D.C.’s Dance Place performance series, the University of Michigan, Ohio University, and Denison University. With frequent collaborator, percussionist, Anthony Di Sanza, they recently performed in Chateau d’Oex, Switzerland at the 2015 International Society for Improvised Music Conference and a tour of Wisconsin Universities.

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Masters Mix Tape: DAVE CHAPPELLE’S BLOCK PARTY

Watch Trailer Director: Michel Gondry
Cast: Dave Chappelle, Yasiin Bey, Lauryn Hill

From director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and comedian Dave Chappelle comes a doc about the party of a decade, inspired by the 70s’ legendary concert/documentary Wattstax. Following the hilarious road trip from Chappelle’s hometown in Ohio to Brooklyn, the comedian surprises and invites strangers from all walks of life to a festival featuring some of the biggest and baddest artists in neo-soul and hip hop.

Feat. Kanye West • Mos Def • Talib Kweli • Jill Scott • Erykah Badu • The Roots • Common • Big Daddy Kane • Kool G Rap • The Fugees • Bilal • Dead Prez Cody Chesnutt • John Legend • Central State University Marching Band • A-Trak

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Chappelle's talent and the characters in the movie give it a universal appeal, even to those unfamiliar with hip-hop.

Patrick MacDonald
Seattle Times
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