Love & Mercy: Leaving Thursday, July 30th

A chronicle of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson’s life, from his successes with highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy. “One of the most touching – and gripping – biopics you will ever see.” -Paul De Barros, Seattle Times “Innovation, precision, a complete […]

100 Years of The Athena: Some Like It Hot – One Day Only Saturday, June 27th

Two Struggling musicians witness the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and are now on the run from the Mob. Jerry and Joe cross-dress into an all female band. In addition to hiding, each has his own problems; One falls for another band member but can’t tell her his gender, and the other has a rich suitor […]

Heaven Knows What: Leaving the Athena Thursday, July 2nd

Heaven Knows What blends fiction, formalism and raw documentary as it follows a young heroin addict (Arielle Holmes) who finds mad love in the streets of New York. The film is based on Holmes’ soon-to-be-published memoir Mad Love in New York City. “All this desperation and squalor reeks of authenticity.” – Peter Keough, Boston Globe […]

The Wolfpack: Leaving the Athena Thursday, July 23rd

Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed the Wolfpack, the brothers spend their childhood re-enacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. With no friends and living on welfare, they feed […]

I’ll See You in My Dreams: Leaving the Athena Thursday, August 6th

In this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt film, a widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew at any age. With the support of three loyal girlfriends (June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, and Mary Kay Place), Carol (Blythe Danner) decides to embrace the world, embarking on an unlikely friendship with her pool maintenance man (Martin […]

100 Years of The Athena: Breathless – One Day Only Saturday, July 25th

Petty thug Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) considers himself a suave bad guy in the manner of Humphrey Bogart, but panics and impulsively kills a policeman while driving a stolen car. On the lam, he turns to his aspiring journalist girlfriend, Patricia (Jean Seberg), hiding out in her Paris apartment while he tries to pull together enough […]

The 100-Year-Old Man: Leaving the Athena Thursday, July 2nd

*Due to urgent theater repairs, there will be NO showings of The 100-Year-Old Man on Thursday, June 25th. The 100-Year-Old Man will be playing thru next Thursday, July 2nd.*   After a long and colorful life working in munitions and getting entangled in the Spanish Civil War, the Manhattan Project, and other definitive events of […]

The Water Diviner: Leaving the Athena Thursday, June 25th

In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) goes in search of his three missing sons, last known to have fought against the Turks in the bloody Battle of Gallipoli. Arriving in Istanbul, he is thrust into a vastly different world, where he encounters others who have suffered their own losses in the conflict: Ayshe […]

Slow West: Leaving the Athena Thursday, June 18th

At the end of the nineteenth century, 16-year-old Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee) journeys across the American frontier in search of the woman he loves. He is joined by Silas (Michael Fassbender), a mysterious traveler, and hotly pursued by an outlaw along the way. “It’s always entertaining to see a genre tweaked, at least when it’s […]

5 Flights Up: Playing tonight!

*Tonight is the final night to see 5 Flights Up.* Forty years ago, artist Alex Carver (Morgan Freeman) bought a run-down apartment in a sketchy part of Brooklyn with his wife, schoolteacher Ruth (Diane Keaton). Today, their neighborhood is now very hip and their apartment worth a small fortune. The now-retired Ruth and Alex haven’t […]