100 YEARS OF ATHENA SERIES

Click for more info on each of our upcoming film classics! DO THE RIGHT THING | Oct. 24 On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Directed by Spike Lee.     BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN | Nov. […]

KNOWING THE FUTURE SERIES

Admission is free to each show!   FANTASTIC VOYAGE | Oct. 27 A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream. CONTACT | Nov. 10 Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years […]

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The Apu Trilogy: APUR SANSAR (THE WORLD OF APU)

This final installment in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, follows Apu’s life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer as he lives through poverty, and the unforeseen turn of events. “Director Satyajit Ray, with greater technical means, makes the truth of his relationships and the revelation of India the main trumps of the film. […]

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Food on Film: SPIRITED AWAY

During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. “Turns everything we know about the contemporary world on its head, and substitutes it with one in which spirits, monsters, magicians and animals mix it up in […]

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Food on Film: JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI

In the basement of a Tokyo office building, 85 year old sushi master Jiro Ono works tirelessly in his world renowned restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. As his son Yoshikazu faces the pressures of stepping into his father’s shoes and taking over the legendary restaurant, Jiro relentlessly pursues his lifelong quest to create the perfect piece of […]

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Knowing the Future Presents: The Imitation Game

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain’s top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Presented with FREE ADMISSION by the College of Arts & […]

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Knowing the Future Presents: Children of Men

Children of Men envisages a world one generation from now that has fallen into anarchy on the heels of an infertility defect in the population. The world’s youngest citizen has just died at 18, and humankind is facing the likelihood of its own extinction. Set against the backdrop of London torn apart by violence and […]

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OU Presents: The Hunting Ground

From the team behind THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they pursue their education while fighting for justice – despite harsh retaliation, harassment and […]

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A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square

A PLACE TO LIVE chronicles the journey of seven brave individuals as they attempt to secure a home in Triangle Square, Hollywood, the nation’s first affordable housing facility for LGBT seniors. Since demand far exceeds the number of available apartments, a lottery system was set up to determine who would be selected. This film is […]

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Parents Weekend: RAISING ARIZONA

We’re celebrating OU Parents weekend with a showing of RAISING ARIZONA, an early Coen Brothers favorite about a couple (Nic Cage and Holly Hunter) who want to have a child… so they take one. A surreal, hyperactive farce in which a bumbling petty thief and the lady cop who keeps arresting him fall in love and decide […]