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 & […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
100 Years of Athena: DO THE RIGHT THING
Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY. Salvatore “Sal” Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that […]
No Pryor Knowledge: WATTSTAX
This is a documentary about the 1972 Watts Summer Festival, which culminated in a day long concert by Stax Records artists at a sold-out Los Angeles Coliseum. The concert was headlined by Issac Hayes and the support acts included Rufus Thomas and his daughter Carla, the Bar Kays and the Staple Singers. The film also […]
ART OF WORLD ANIMATION SERIES
Click on titles for more details! ZARAFA | Oct. 17 & 18 Under a baobab tree, an old man tells a story to the children around him: The story of the friendship between Maki, a little boy, and Zarafa, an orphaned giraffe. THE PROPHET | Nov. 14 & 15 The Prophet, by Lebanese author Kahlil Gibran, is among […]
The Art of World Animation: When Marnie Was There
Sent from her foster home in the city one summer to a sleepy town by the sea in Hokkaido, Anna dreams her days away among the marshes. She believes she’s outside the invisible magic circle to which most people belong – and shuts herself off from everyone around her, wearing her “ordinary face”. Anna never […]
The Art of World Animation: Zarafa – Two Days Only Saturday, October 17th & Sunday, October 18th
Under a baobab tree, an old man tells a story to the children around him: The story of the friendship between Maki, a little boy, and Zarafa, an orphaned giraffe. Hassan, Prince of the Desert, is instructed by the Pasha to deliver Zarafa to France. But Maki has made up his mind to do everything […]
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