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THE ROOM with Special Guest Greg Sestero

Viewing: October 09,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Tommy Wiseau
Cast: Greg Sestero, Tommy Wiseau, Juliette Danielle

Join us Thursday, October 9th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome actor, filmmaker, and author Greg Sestero for a special one-night-only screening of The Room!

A Q&A session with Greg will follow the screening

Admission is $15

This event will feature a special evening with “Mark” himself, Greg Sestero – star of The Room and the New York Times best-selling author of the Oscar-nominated The Disaster Artist. The evening will include a special screening of The Room, as well as a live script reading and Q&A with Greg!

You’ll find yourself saying “What a story Mark!” time and time again, as he’s not keeping any of his stupid comments in his pocket on this night.

Plus a meet-and-greet with Greg…and maybe even a bonus surprise or two?!

Don’t be chip-chip-chip-chip-cheep-cheep…get your tickets before they’re here and gone like Claudette’s breast cancer.

About the film

When Johnny’s successful life trajectory as a banker and a soon-to-be-groom is upended when his (unsatisfied) fiancée Lisa decides to seduce his best friend Mark, he begins taping phone conversations between Lisa and her mother in an attempt to figure out who Lisa is having an affair with. Meanwhile, as things spiral downward for Johnny, he leans more on Mark and a psychologist for help keeping it all together. However, the affair between Mark and Lisa comes to light (in a very public way), flinging Johnny headlong into a nervous breakdown…and worse!

 

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Running Time: 99 MIN99 MIN
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Thursday 10/097:00
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WEAPONS

Todays Show Times: 5:057:40

Watch Trailer Director: Zach Cregger
Cast: Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Elden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong

On the heels of the success of his rule-breaking horror-thriller Barbarian, writer-director Zach Cregger returns with an audacious new horror-mystery that tips its hat to the works of Paul Thomas Anderson and sculpts a character-centric story into a tale of epic proportions.

When all but one child from a class of seventeen third-graders mysteriously vanish without a trace on the same night at exactly the same time, the community of Maybrook struggles, with minimal clues to guide them, to find out who or what is behind the strange disappearance. Confused, grieving, and seeking answers, the town have little choice but to direct their anger towards the 3rd grade teacher (Julia Garner) who doesn’t have the best reputation. However, when she’s put on leave, she takes it upon herself to investigate the matter and try to clear her name. She ends up crossing paths with several of the townsfolk…any one of whom could be responsible for the tragic mystery.

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Running Time: 128 MIN128 MIN
Open Captioning is available for this film. Listening Aids are available for this film. Descriptive Aids are available for this film. This Film is Wheelchair Accessible
Thursday 08/145:057:40
Friday 08/154:407:109:55
Saturday 08/161:404:457:209:55
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Monday 08/185:157:55
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Wednesday 08/205:157:55
Thursday 08/215:157:55
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NICKEL BOYS – One Night Only!

Watch Trailer Director: RaMell Ross
Cast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Awards: Oscar - Best Picture (nom), Best Adapted Screenplay (nom)

Join us Tuesday, October 21st at 7:00 p.m. for a special encore screening of Nickel Boys – the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel!

In honor of Whitehead’s in-person visit to Ohio U on Wednesday, October 22nd, this screening will be free for Ohio U English majors and Cutlers Scholars students with a valid Ohio U ID card

About the film

Elwood, a young African-American boy, is coming of age in Florida during the 1960’s Jim Crow era. Even in the midst of the tense racial attitudes that were dividing society at that time, Elwood’s future appears bright: he is awarded an opportunity to attend an HBCU’s honor’s program tuition-free. While hitchhiking to class, however, Elwood is picked up by a man driving a stolen car and the two are pulled over by the police. Elwood is unfairly arrested as an accomplice, and his hopeful trajectory through life is forever changed as he is transferred to a segregated reform school – The Nickel Academy – which is notorious for is brutal abuse of black students. He meets and befriends Turner, another student, and the two learn to rely on each other to make it through the tough environment even though their ideas about how black people should integrate into white society are very different.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead about the infamous “Dozier School”, and written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys uses the unique approach of presenting the visual narrative of the film through the first-person perspective – in other words, through the eyes of the protagonists. The film has also been nominated for and won several prestigious awards on the film festival circuit for its script, cinematography, and direction.

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Running Time: 140 MINS140 MIN
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The Met: Live in HD: Bellini’s LA SONNAMBULA

Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.

The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:10 p.m.

Admission $20 (Senior $18, Children $8)

OHIO Students Free with valid ID*

*Thanks to support from Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.

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Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:

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Running Time: 195 MIN195 MIN
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From the Hills and Hollers: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT with Travis Eskins

Viewing: October 23,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Cast: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard

Join us Thursday, October 23rd at 7:00 p.m. for a be-witching addition to our Appalachian Stories Film Series…The Blair Witch Project!

The event will include a pre-show presentation by Travis Eskins

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

About the film

Three film students looking to make a documentary take a road trip to rural Maryland in order to investigate and interview residents about an alleged local myth centered on an entity known as “The Blair Witch”. Their efforts point them to a hermit who, fifty years ago, was reported to have kidnapped and murdered children deep in the forest. Beyond just being a grim story, the students learn more about the dark and mysterious character of the woods – more murders, disappearances, strange occult figures…in essence, the locals believe the forest to be cursed. When curiosity gets the better of the trio, they set out to explore the woods and see for themselves what secrets lie among the trees. What they discover is a force more dark than they could ever imagine.

About the speaker

Travis Eskins is a graduate student in the Film Studies program at Ohio University. He was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he studied Film and English Literature at Marshall University. His work is focused on depictions of labor movements in film, especially those from the Appalachian region. He is currently teaching a course on films set in Appalachia. Travis will be discussing The Blair Witch Project’s influential role in modern film history and connecting it to the local legend of the Mothman through the concepts of Commemoration and Folklore-ization of actual events.

 

Check out the rest of the films in the Appalachian Stories Film Series

This series is sponsored by the Ohio Honors Program, University Libraries, College of Health Sciences and Professions, The Department of Social and Public Health, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, OU School of Film, and The Office of Signature Academic Experiences.

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Running Time: 81 MIN81 MIN
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Sustainability Series: WILD LIFE with

Watch Trailer Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

Join us on Wednesday, October 29th at 7:00 p.m. as our Sustainability Film Series takes you to one of the last “wild” places on Earth!

Admission is FREE and open to the public – Tickets are required

This event will include a pre-show presentation by

About the film

This stirring National Geographic documentary, directed by Academy Award-winning husband-and-wife filmmaking duo Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo), chronicles the close relationship of conservationist Kris Tompkins, the first CEO of outdoor brand Patagonia, and her husband Douglas Tompkins, an outdoorsman and entrepreneur who founded The North Face and co-founded Esprit. Together, spanning decades of work, they’ve created national parks throughout Chile and Argentina, and preserved one of the last wild places on Earth by making the largest private land donation in history.

About the speaker

 

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Running Time: 93 MIN93 MIN
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A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela with Juan Revell and Patricia Marcano

Viewing: November 03,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Juan Ravell
Awards: Emmy Award (finalist) - News & Documentary

Join us Monday, November 3rd at 3:30 p.m. for a screening of a powerful piece of investigative journalism produced by FRONTLINE and the independent Venezuelan news organization Armando.info

This event will include a Q&A discussion with director Juan Revell and OHIO Fulbright Scholar Patricia Marcano

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

About the film

Three years after the death of Hugo Chávez and the presidential election of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela was in economic freefall and consumed by hunger. In 2016, President Maduro’s government responded with the CLAP program: a domestic aid initiative that was billed as providing high-quality, essential food items to Venezuelans impacted by the nation’s economic crisis — some of whom were at risk of
starvation.

This FRONTLINE documentary A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela shows that, in fact, the CLAP program was not all that the government claimed it to be. Made in collaboration with the independent Venezuelan news site Armando.info, the documentary features groundbreaking reporting from investigative journalist Roberto Deniz and his colleagues. They revealed that the government was purchasing low-quality products for the CLAP program. The Armando.info journalists’ reporting ended up helping expose a vast corruption scandal that had benefited Maduro and other officials, spanning from Venezuela to Europe to the U.S. — and it ultimately made the journalists targets of the Maduro government.

A Dangerous Assignment: Uncovering Corruption in Maduro’s Venezuela was a finalist for the News & Documentary Emmy Award.

About the speakers

Juan Andres Ravell, director, is an audio producer and documentary director from Caracas Venezuela. In 2008, Juan co-founded El Chigüire Bipolar, a wildly popular political satire website that used humor to bypass government censorship in Venezuela. In 2018, Juan branched into investigative journalism collaborating in projects with reporters from Armando.Info, IDL Reporteros and Columbia Journalism School. Juan recently directed the investigative documentary feature “A Dangerous Assignment” for FRONTLINE PBS.

 

Patricia Marcano Meza is a Venezuelan editor and investigative reporter who has covered the corruption of the Maduro government for Armando.info. Her work includes covering corruption, money laundering, organized crime and human rights violations; coordinating the newsroom; and leading the Venezuelan chapter of the FinCEN Files and Pandora Papers projects. She is also an OHIO Fulbright Scholar pursuing a master’s degree in journalism at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Marcano’s studies are focused on the study of data journalism, and she plans to take what she learns at Ohio University back to Venezuela to train fellow journalists so they can all improve the investigative work they are doing.

 

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Running Time: 85 MIN85 MIN
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The Met: Live in HD: Puccini’s LA BOHÈME

With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the performance.

The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:30 p.m.

Admission $20 (Senior $18, Children $8)

OHIO Students Free with valid ID*

*Thanks to support from Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.

Click here to view the rest of the Met: Live in HD schedule

Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:

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Running Time: 210 MIN210 MIN
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Sustainability Series: BEEN HERE STAY HERE with

Watch Trailer Director: David Usui

Join us on Wednesday, November 12th at 7:00 p.m. as our Sustainability Film Series concludes with a beautiful film about a disappearing landscape and a vanishing way of life!

Admission is FREE and open to the public – Tickets are required

This event will include a pre-show presentation by

About the film

On a remote island, a deeply-rooted Christian fishing community grapples with the quiet erosion of their land and their traditions. Their centuries-old way of life, sustained by faith and the rhythms of the bay, is now at a poignant crossroads—one that may force them from the only home they’ve ever known.

Been Here Stay Here is a quiet, immersive portrait of Tangier Island, a centuries-old Christian fishing community in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay. Long used as a symbol in the national climate conversation, Tangier is often portrayed through a lens of skepticism or scorn—framed as “America’s first climate casualty” and written off as a place in denial. This film offers another way in. With no experts, voiceovers, or statistics, Been Here Stay Here invites viewers into the lived experience of the island’s residents—through faith, memory, and the rhythms of daily life. By stepping away from spectacle and alarm, the film allows the community to speak on its own terms, revealing not denial but devotion: to place, to faith, and to a way of life that refuses easy categorization. Inspired by the work of climate scientist and Evangelical Christian Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, the film models a conversation rooted in relationship, not rhetoric. In the end, it’s less about the water at the doorstep than it is about what rises within us when we choose to listen, stay, and understand.

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Running Time: 90 MIN90 MIN
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