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Watch Trailer Director: Robert Greene
Cast: Brandy Burre, Michael Tomlinson

Brandy Burre had a recurring role on HBO’s The Wire when she gave up her career to start a family. When she decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she’s carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense portrait of a dying relationship and an exploration of a complicated woman, performing the role of herself as she faces the desires that exist outside of her home.

“Robert Greene’s extraordinary collaboration with actress Brandy Burre is a playful, provocative examination of self-performance.” -Guy Lodge, Variety

“Combining artifice with vérité documentary style, [Greene] underscores the inextricability of real life and make-believe, of genuine behavior and self-conscious performance.” -Peter Keough, Boston Globe

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Running Time: 86 min86 MIN

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She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry: Leaving Thursday, April 23rd

Watch Trailer Director: Mary Dore
Writer(s): Mary Dore
Cast: Rita Mae Brown, Susan Brownmiller, Kate Millet, Ellen Willis, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Alix Kates Shulman

SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.   SHE’S BEAUTIFUL takes us from the founding of NOW, with ladies in hats and gloves, to the emergence of more radical factions of women’s liberation;  from intellectuals like Kate Millett to the street theatrics of WITCH (Women’s International Conspiracy from Hell!).  It does not shy away from controversies over race, sexual preference and leadership that arose in the women’s movement, and brilliantly captures the spirit of the time — thrilling, scandalous, and often hilarious.

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Running Time: 92 Minutes92 MIN
Not Rated

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REACT to FILM OU Presents: Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine – One Night Only Tuesday, April 14th

Watch Trailer Director: Michele Josue

 

On October 7, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten, tied to a fence and left to die because he was gay. Years later, Michele Josue, a close friend of Matt’s, revisits the shocking case with never-before-seen photos, rare video footage, as Matt’s all-too-brief life is remembered through the vivid testimonies of those whose lives he touched, from the friends and family who knew him best to the bartender who saw him on the night of the attack. New revelations emerge in one of the most notorious hate crimes in US history, leading to a searing, poignant, and multi-layered biographical and sociological portrait. In the end, the notion of forgiveness–embodied in the moving and courageous final act of Matt’s parents–takes on truly heroic proportions.

“’Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine’ is a great documentary…This film doesn’t just revisit an atrocity, it moves through it, and finds meaning in it.” – RogerEbert.com

“A tender reconstruction of personal loss.”  – The New York Times

“’Matt Shepard Is A Friend Of Mine’ is a moving eulogy to a life lost but not forgotten.” – Indiewire

This is a FREE one night only screening sponsored by ReAct to Film.

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Running Time: 89 minutes89 MIN

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Maps to the Stars

Watch Trailer Director: David Cronenberg
Writer(s): Bruce Wagner
Cast: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson

Meet the Weiss family, who are making their way in Hollywood rife with money, fame, envy, and relentless hauntings. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack) is a famed TV self-help therapist with an A-list celebrity clientele. Meanwhile, Cristina Weiss (Olivia Williams) has her work cut out managing the career of their disaffected child-star son, Benjie (Evan Bird), a fresh graduate of rehab at age 13. Yet unbeknownst to them, another member of the Weiss family has arrived in town – mysteriously scarred and tormented Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), just released from a psych ward and ready to start again. She soon works her way into a friendship with a limo driver (Robert Pattinson) and becomes personal assistant to unraveling actress Havana Segrand (Julianne Moore), who is beset by the ghost of her legendary mother, Clarice (Sarah Gadon). But Agatha is on a quest for redemption – and even in this realm of the artificial, and the unearthly, she’s determined to find it, no matter what it takes.

“So crisply directed, furiously paced and gleefully performed that you go along for the ride.” -Jon Frosch, The Atlantic

“Hollywood has been disemboweling itself since… Sunset Boulevard and The Bad and the Beautiful, but those movies seem like Cream of Wheat compared to Cronenberg’s wicked vision.” -J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

“Moore delivers something remarkable here: a completely ego-free portrait of a woman who knows only ego.” -Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News

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Running Time: 111 min111 MIN
R Rated

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Free Universal Premiere: TRAINWRECK

Watch Trailer Director: Judd Apatow
Writer(s): Amy Schumer
Cast: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson

Since she was a little girl, it’s been drilled into Amy’s (Schumer) head by her rascal of a dad (Colin Quinn) that monogamy isn’t realistic. Now a magazine writer, Amy lives by that credo-enjoying what she feels is an uninhibited life free from stifling, boring romantic commitment-but in actuality, she’s kind of in a rut. When she finds herself starting to fall for the subject of the new article she’s writing, a charming and successful sports doctor named Aaron Conners (Bill Hader), Amy starts to wonder if other grown-ups, including this guy who really seems to like her, might be on to something.

Free preview screening. Tickets are first come first serve.

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Running Time: 122122 MIN
R Rated
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42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival SNEAK PEEK! Appropriate Behavior

Watch Trailer Director: Desiree Akhavan
Writer(s): Desiree Akhavan
Cast: Desiree Akhavan, Rebecca Henderson, Scott Adsit

For the first time ever, the Athena Cinema will be revealing exclusive SNEAK PEEKS of feature films programmed for the 42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival, which takes place during April 3rd-9th.

For Shirin (Desiree Akhavan), being part of a perfect Persian family isn’t easy. Acceptance eludes her from all sides: her family doesn’t know she’s bisexual, and her ex-girlfriend, Maxine, can’t understand why she doesn’t tell them. Even the six-year-old boys in her moviemaking class are too ADD to focus on her for more than a second. Following a family announcement of her brother’s betrothal to a parentally approved Iranian prize catch, Shirin embarks on a private rebellion involving a series of pansexual escapades, while trying to decipher what went wrong with Maxine.

“Akhavan’s most effective resource as a storyteller is her own face, a sometimes Chaplinesque blend of farce and pathos. She is a big talent to watch.” -Tom Keogh, Seattle Times

“Akhavan’s confidently off-kilter approach to basic human interaction makes for an authentically ironic, adorably wistful, smartly observed ride.” -Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

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Running Time: 90 min90 MIN

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42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival SNEAK PEEK! Class Enemy

Watch Trailer Director: Rok Bicek
Writer(s): Nejc Gazvoda, Rok Bicek, Janez Lapajne
Cast: Igor Samobor, Natasa Barbara Gracner, Tjasa Zeleznik
Language: Italian, German

For the first time ever, the Athena Cinema will be revealing exclusive SNEAK PEEKS of feature films programmed for the 42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival, which takes place during April 3rd-9th.

Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late. Based on true events.

“Bicek capitalizes on the differences in energy among the teens (carefully cast and rehearsed non-pros) and the adults (portrayed by professional thesps), to persuasive effect.” -Alissa Simon, Variety

“A Venice Critics’ Week premiere, the solidly acted Class Enemy has what it takes to worm its way into not only new filmmaker showcases but also general festival slates and possibly a few foreign theaters.” -Boyd van Hoeij, The Hollywood Reporter

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Running Time: 112 min112 MIN
R Rated

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42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival SNEAK PEEK! The Foxy Merkins

Watch Trailer Director: Madeleine Olnek
Writer(s): Lisa Haas, Jackie Monahan, Madeleine Olnek
Cast: Gian Maria Annovi, Frances Bodomo, Diane Ciesla

For the first time ever, the Athena Cinema will be revealing exclusive SNEAK PEEKS of feature films programmed for the 42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival, which takes place during April 3rd-9th.

Margaret (Lisa Haas) is a down-on-her-luck lesbian hooker in training. She meets Jo (Jackie Monahan), a beautiful, self-assured grifter from a wealthy family and an expert on picking up women, even as she considers herself a card-carrying heterosexual. The duo hit the streets where they encounter bargain-hunting housewives, double-dealing conservative women, husky-voiced seductresses, mumbling erotic accessory salesmen and shopaholic swingers. Navigating the bizarre fetishes and sexual needs of their “dates” brings into focus the hilarious and pathetic disparity between the two hookers, as fellow travelers who will share the road together but only for a while.

“Merkins sends up both male-hustler movies (Midnight Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho in particular) and the upscale, conservative daughters of Gomorrah with unerring goofiness.” -Melissa Anderson, Artforum

“This spritely low-budget sex comedy is essentially a parody of Midnight Cowboy, but the humor is cleverly absurd and self-aware.” -Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader

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Running Time: 81 min81 MIN

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Science on Screen: AMERICAN HUSTLE with Dr. Faizul Huq

Watch Trailer Director: David O. Russell
Writer(s): Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence
Awards: Nominated for 10 Academy Awards; Winner of Golden Globes for Best Comedy/Musical, Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical (Amy Adams), and Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lawrence)

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Caught between the con-artists and Feds is Carmine Polito (Jeremy Renner), the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator, but it’s Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) who could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

“Ambitious even as it studies, exploits and explodes ambition, American Hustle is as good as any American film (in 2013.) It’s also a lot of fun. Don’t miss it.” -Tom Long, Detroit News

“American Hustle is a movie built on that cornerstone of the American Dream, reinvention. If you’re not happy with who you are, or who people think you are, then go ahead and become somebody else. Anything to survive – and thrive.” -Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

“American Hustle may have taken its inspiration from the art of the steal, but it has a heart of pure, if slightly tarnished, gold.” -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

 

Featuring a presentation and talk-back with the Ohio University College of Business’s Dr. Faizul Huq.

Science on Screen℠ is a project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Coolidge Corner Theater. The Science on Screen program pairs with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging and offer dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

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Running Time: 129 min129 MIN
R Rated
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The Athena Will Close Thursday, March 5th Due to Severe Weather

We are sorry for the inconvenience. The showtimes for Friday, March 6th thru March 12th are as follows:

STILL ALICE
Featuring Academy Award Winning Best Actress Julianne Moore
Playing daily at 5:15, 7:15 and 9:15 with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3:15
MR. TURNER
From Acclaimed Director Mike Leigh, A Biopic on One of Britain’s Best Artists
Playing daily at 4:15, 6:40 and 8:50
MOMMY

Winner of Cannes Jury Prize
Playing daily at 4:10 and 9:25 with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:40
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
A woman has to convince her colleagues to give up bonuses so she keeps her job.
Playing daily at 7:00* with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:15
*No 7:00 show on Wednesday, March 11th

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