Food on Film: FOOD EVOLUTION

Watch Trailer Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Cast: Neil deGrasse Tyson

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.

Amid a brutally polarized debate marked by passion, suspicion, and confusion, Food Evolution explores the controversy surrounding GMOs and food. Traveling from Hawaiian papaya groves, to banana farms in Uganda, to the cornfields of Iowa, Food Evolution wrestles with the emotions and the science driving both sides of one of the most heated arguments of our time.

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Running Time: 92 minutes92 MIN
Not Rated
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A polished and provocative call for activists to be as scientifically minded as they believe they are.

John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
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KINGS, QUEENS, & IN-BETWEENS

Watch Trailer Director: Gabrielle Burton
Writer(s): Gabrielle Burton
Cast: Nina West

KINGS, QUEENS, & IN-BETWEENS is a documentary drag queens and kings in Columbus, Ohio. Through the appealing stories of seven main drag performers, KQIB gives rare insight into an underground community and captures how a midwestern city full of terrific performers tackles the complexities and pathos of gender expression, personal identity, and human rights–all with humor, great music, big hair, and duct tape. Continuing the conversation started by the groundbreaking ‘Paris Is Burning,’ KINGS, QUEENS, & IN-BETWEENS is the first film to include the entire gender performance spectrum: kings, queens, and transgender performers.

Free admission.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
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...Could be an eye-opener for viewers who are befuddled by current debates over sexual expression...

John DeFore
Hollywood Reporter
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Defend Our Future Presents RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN

Watch Trailer Director: Susan Froemke, John Hoffman, Beth Aala
Cast: Tom Brokaw, Dusty Crary, Justin Knopf

The new documentary Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman tells the inspiring story of heartland conservation heroes who are feeding the world while stewarding the land and water.

The film is a tribute to people like Justin Knopf, a fifth-generation Kansas farmer revolutionizing industrial scale agriculture to rebuild the fertility, biodiversity and resilience of his soil, and Dusty Crary, a fourth-generation Montana rancher who forged alliances between cattlemen, federal agencies, hunters and environmental groups to protect the Rocky Mountain Front.

Based on a book by best-selling author Miriam Horn of Environmental Defense Fund, Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman was directed by Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Susan Froemke and Emmy winner John Hoffman, and narrated by award-winning journalist Tom Brokaw.

This show will be presented free and will consist of a short introduction, screening, and post-show talkback.

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Running Time: 103 min103 MIN
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Designed to go down easy among exactly the audiences who might assume all environmentalists are 'radicals,' but would readily identify with the folksy protagonists herein.

Dennis Harvey
Variety
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ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

Watch Trailer Director: Jim Sharman
Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick

A young couple’s car breaks down outside the mansion of the eccentric transvestite scientist, Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Give yourself over to absolute pleasure and experience The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a strange psychedelic cinematic wonder. While critics and audiences initially failed to see this film’s charm, it has since gained a massive following and holds the record for longest theatrical release, since it technically has not left movie theaters since its premiere in 1975.

Whether it’s for the little ghouls and witches or the late show zombies, the Athena has tricks and treats in store for all walks of life… including the walking dead, of course.

No outside props, props packets will be available for purchase. Regular admission applies.

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Running Time: 100 minutes100 MIN
R Rated
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Dream it in your living room... Be it in the theater!

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LOST IN PARIS *Last Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon (II)
Cast: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva

Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s signature whimsical style, Lost in Paris stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona’s (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (Academy Award nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. Replete with the amazing antics and intricately choreographed slapstick that has come to define Abel and Gordon’s work, Lost in Paris is a wondrously fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love while lost in the City of Lights.

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Running Time: 83 minutes83 MIN
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Who wouldn’t want a picturesque trip to the French capital that delivers more laughs than a nitrous oxide leak near the hyena compound? In fact, I’d go as far as to promise that Lost in Paris offers the three most delightful sight gags you’ll see on screen all year.

Peter Debruge
Variety
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Athena Cinema & AUBA UPTOWN TRICK-OR-TREAT NIGHT MOVIE: HOCUS POCUS

Watch Trailer Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy

Join us for our 1st ever Uptown Trick-or-Treat night movie! Costumes encouraged!

In the pantheon of nostalgic films, you would be hard-pressed to find a more fun Halloween throwback than 1993’s Hocus Pocus. Featuring peak performances from Bette Midler, Kathy Najimi, & Sarah Jessica Parker as three snippy witch sisters resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night 300 years after their trial, all the ingredients are there for a hilarious brew of triple toil and trouble.

Free Admission sponsored by Ohio University Credit Union and the Athena Cinema.

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Running Time: 96 Minutes96 MIN
PG Rated
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Halloween Midnight Movie: HAUSU

Watch Trailer Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Writer(s): Chiho Katsura, Chigumi Ôbayashi
Cast: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba

1977 Asian horror cult classic in which a schoolgirl travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions.

Admission is $6.66

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Running Time: 88 min88 MIN
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Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone — no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to 'House.'

Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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Beat the Heat: THE SECRET GARDEN

Watch Trailer Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writer(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett, Caroline Thompson
Cast: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse

Featuring a special presentation on pollinators by Teresa Caldwell from the Athens Soil & Water Conservation District.

Learn about milkweed, monarch butterflies, bees and more.

Children will be given Info booklets and seed packets to start their own “secret garden”.

Film Screening of “The Secret Garden” to follow.

A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle’s estate. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants’ brothers, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

During the summer the Athena Cinema presents BEAT THE HEAT $2 DAYS. Every year, the summer series showcases children’s and family friendly films with discounted admission, raffle prizes, giveaways and more. Get out of the heat and come enjoy the cool air conditioning, delicious concessions and movies that every child should see on the big screen!

To benefit Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Athens County, the price of admission to these screenings is a suggested minimum donation of $2 per ticket.

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Running Time: 101 min101 MIN
G Rated
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The result is an instant classic -- rich, dense, resonant, powerful.

Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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Sustainability Series: SAMUEL IN THE CLOUDS

Watch Trailer Director: Pieter Van Eecke

In Bolivia, the glaciers are melting. Samuel, a ski lift operator, is looking out of a window on the rooftop of the world. Through many generations his family lived and worked in the snowy mountains, but now snow fails. While scientists are discussing and measuring ominous changes Samuel honors the ancient mountain spirits. Clouds continue to drift by.

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Running Time: 70 min70 MIN
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Dads Weekend: TOMMY BOY

Watch Trailer Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy

This 1995 classic might be most remembered for assembling one of the funniest on-screen comedy duos of all time, but it is also a heartwarming story about a lovable kid from Sandusky trying to make his father proud. Big Toms and Tommy’s alike will be rolling in the aisles when we bring the car-crashing, cow–tipping, and coat-ripping hilarity to the big screen for one weekend only!

Admission is $4.00 for members.

Admission is $7.00 for non-members.

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Running Time: 97 minutes97 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Tommy Boy is a good belly laugh of a movie.

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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