*Best Picture* MOONLIGHT: Last Day Thursday, March 23rd

*CaptiView® Closed Caption & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions. The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man in Miami and his struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, […]

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Spotlight on Documentary

Our Spotlight on Documentary series covers a wide array of topics, from gender & race studies to cultural arts and everything in between. Some have guest speakers and discussions, some are one-night only nationwide engagements, but all of them share the Athena’s mission statement to educate, entertain, and engage our community.

ELLE: Last Day Thursday, March 9th

*This film is spoken in French with English subtitles.* Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a leading video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle’s life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both […]

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Lois Weber Restoration: THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI

Introduction by Amy Heller & Dennis Doros, co-founders of Milestone Films. Amy and Dennis will discuss the restoration and amazing career of one of the earliest women filmmakers. The Dumb Girl of Portici is a previously unseen film long overdue for recognition as one of Weber’s finest creations and a landmark in women’s cinema. The […]

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO: Last Day Thursday, March 9th

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, […]

THE HANDMAIDEN: Last Day Thursday, February 23rd

*This film is spoken in Korean & Japanese with English Subtitles.* A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her. “Go see it. If you love cinema at all, go see it.” -Tom Long, Detroit News “Chan-wook Park’s The Handmaiden is deliciously […]

JACKIE: Last Day Wednesday, March 1st

*CaptiView® Closed Caption, Assistive Listening, & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions. Jackie is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). […]

WILSON

Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged misanthrope who reunites with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter (Isabella Amara) he has never met.  In his uniquely outrageous and slightly twisted way, he sets out to connect with […]

THE SALESMAN

After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment. Eventually, an incident linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life. It is by any measure a great film, a quiet, yet […]

THE FOUNDER: Last Day Thursday, February 9th

*CaptiView® Closed Caption & Audio Description devices are available for this film. All showings on Mondays will feature Open Captions. The story of Ray Kroc, a struggling milkshake machine salesman who turned two brothers’ fast food eatery, McDonald’s, into one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world. “A sharp and satisfyingly fat-free account of how […]