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Sustainability Series: CHASING CORAL

Coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers and scientists set out on a thrilling ocean adventure to discover why and to reveal the underwater mystery to the world. The film took more than three years to shoot, and is the result of 650 + hours underwater, […]

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IN SEARCH OF FELLINI: Q&A with OU Alumna Nancy Cartwright

The Athena Cinema is elated and honored to have accomplished actress, writer, and producer Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons, The Replacements) in-house to present her latest film, In Search of Fellini for two screenings: Friday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. The Athena will host a Q&A with Scripps College […]

LANDLINE *Last Day Thursday*

The Manhattan of 1995: a land without cell phones, but abundant in CD listening stations, bar smoke, and family dysfunction. Enter the Jacobs. Eldest daughter Dana’s looming marriage to straight-laced Ben prompts a willful dive into her wild side, while her younger sister, Ali, is still in high school but leads a covert life of […]

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Masters Mix Tape: THE LAST WALTZ

Considered by the Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, and many other major outlets as the single greatest rock concert film of all time, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz is a musical goodbye. The documentary catches and preserves The Band’s final concert on Thanksgiving 1976 in San Francisco as they say farewell to their fans with the help of more than a few very special […]

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YEAH MAYBE NO

The Better Bystanders and the Campus Involvement Center presents Yeah Maybe No as part of the annual A Mile Together (to end Power-Based Personal Violence) event. Follow the Better Bystanders on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @OHIObystander. Want a bystander intervention workshop for your group, class, or club?  Email us at bystander@ohio.edu! Admission is FREE. After […]

THE MIDWIFE *Last Day Thursday*

Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire’s late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as […]

THE B-SIDE: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography * Lady Day Thursday*

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20×24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside […]

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Masters Mix Tape: THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

“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 […]

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Universal Premiere: HAPPY DEATH DAY

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 […]

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

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 […]