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Sustainability Series: JUST EAT IT

Watch Trailer Director: Grant Baldwin
Writer(s): Jenny Rustemeyer, Grant Baldwin
Cast: Grant Baldwin, Jenny Rustemeyer, Dana Gunders
Language: English

Jen and Grant dive into the issue of food waste from farm, through retail. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year, they pledge to survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away. But as Grant’s addictive personality turns full tilt towards food rescue, the ‘thrill of the find’ has unexpected consequences.

 

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Running Time: 75 minutes75 MIN
Not Rated
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Knowing the Future: FANTASTIC VOYAGE

Watch Trailer Director: Richard Fleischer
Writer(s): Harry Kleiner (screenplay), David Duncan (adaptation)
Cast: Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch, Edmond O'Brien
Language: English

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Presented with FREE ADMISSION by the College of Arts & Sciences’ Knowing the Future theme. Check out more films showing this semester as part of the Knowing the Future Series.

“Their voyage through the body’s bloodstream past assorted organs was created by inventive special effects that make this one of the more visually interesting science fiction films of its era.” TV Guide’s Movie Guide

“With such titles as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, the 1960s proved to be a particularly rich decade for science fiction cinema, and Fantastic Voyage stands as one of the period’s most imaginative efforts.” – Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

 

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Running Time: 100 minutes100 MIN
PG Rated

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ALICE IN WONDERLAND presented by OU Libraries

Watch Trailer Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Writer(s): Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William Cameron Menzies, Lewis Carroll
Cast: Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, W.C. Fields

This star-laden, 1933  of Lewis Carroll’s novel combines elements of both the title novel and Carroll’s sequel, Through the Looking Glass. Showing one night only as part of Ohio University Libraries celebration of 150 years of Alice in Wonderland! Admission is free.

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Running Time: 76 minutes76 MIN

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Phoenix: Leaving Thursday, September 17th

Watch Trailer Director: Christian Petzold
Writer(s): Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Language: German

A spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany in the stunning new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Barbara, Jerichow). Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, Nelly emerges with a new face, one similar but different enough that her former husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), doesn’t recognize her. Rather than reveal herself, Nelly walks into a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise as she tries to figure out if the man she loves may have been the one who betrayed her to the Nazis. Evoking the shadows and haunted mood of post-war Berlin, Phoenix weaves a complex tale of a nation’s tragedy and a woman’s search for answers as it builds towards an unforgettable, heart-stopping climax.

“Provocative, profoundly moving and the acting is virtuosic.” -John Anderson, Newsday

“‘Phoenix’ is an intoxicating witches’ brew, equal parts melodrama and moral parable, that audaciously mixes diverse elements to compelling, disturbing effect.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“Beautiful and mysteriously powerful from beginning to end.” -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

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Running Time: 98 minutes98 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Free Universal Premiere: THE VISIT

Watch Trailer Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer(s): M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan

A single mother finds that things in her family’s life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents.

Free preview screening. Tickets are first come, first serve.

 

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Running Time: 94 minutes94 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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No Pryor Knowledge: BLUE COLLAR

Watch Trailer Director: Paul Schrader
Writer(s): Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader
Cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Language: English

Three guys, two African-American and one Polish, work on the production line in a Detroit automobile factory, and they are fed-up with the conditions. It dawns on them that their workers’ union is doing them no greater good than their screwed-up bosses. So the trio pulls off a clumsy robbery at union HQ, in which they only gain access to some suspicious documents that point to union links with organized crime. Suddenly they’re out of their league: violence, paranoia, rivarly, and recrimination erupt around them.

“Although the film does not tell us how to break out of the plantations we know too well, it does give us a vivid sense of the problems and the pitfalls of those who try.” – Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

“Too downbeat, edgy and profane in its gritty reality to connect in the box office with a 1970’s audience, the film was nevertheless critically acclaimed. It’s intense, well-acted, gives one a good idea about everyday factory life and offers a clear-sighted muckraking take on blue collar types who cross-the-line when they discover that it’s not just management but their own union that is ripping them off.” – Dennis Schwartz, Ozus’ World Movie Reviews

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Running Time: 114 minutes114 MIN
R Rated

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl: Leaving Thursday, September 17th

Watch Trailer Director: Marielle Heller
Writer(s): Phoebe Gloeckner, Marielle Heller
Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig
Awards: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Work at Sundance

Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl’s sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.

“The first thing to know about The Diary of a Teenage Girl is that young British actress (Bel) Powley is staggeringly good in it.” -Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine

“A strikingly intimate look at a teenager’s sexual life in an outstanding debut film.” -Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter

“Big summer action movies can be thrilling, but if you really want to feel your heart pounding out of your chest, try being a 15-year-old girl for 101 minutes.” -Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times

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Running Time: 102 min102 MIN
R Rated

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FINAL SOLUTION featuring director Rakesh Sharma

Director: Rakesh Sharma
Language: Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu

Final Solution is a 2004 documentary film directed by Rakesh Sharma concerning the 2002 Gujarat pogrom in which both Hindu and Muslims are targeted in the state of Gujarat by political extremists. In order to rationalize their violence, Hindu extremists had made the claim that their actions were in fact a “spontaneous response” to the Godhra Train Burning incident on February 27, 2002. But as the film proceeds with victims continuing to come forward and share their experiences, a more unsettling possibility seems to emerge- that far from being a spontaneous expression of outrage, the anti-Muslim violence had been carefully coordinated and planned.

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Running Time: 88 minutes88 MIN

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Infinitely Polar Bear: Leaving the Athena Thursday, August 20th

Watch Trailer Director: Maya Forbes
Writer(s): Maya Forbes
Cast: Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, Imogene Wolodarsky

A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don’t make the overwhelming task any easier.

“Mark Ruffalo gives one of his most appealing performances in writer-director Maya Forbes’ irresistible feature debut.” -Justin Chang, Variety

“Ruffalo does a magnificent job of conveying Cam’s charm and undeniable love for his wife and children – as well as the devastating effects of serious, incurable mental illness.” -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

“Ms. Forbes hasn’t made a movie about her father’s illness; she’s made one about her father, who, through hard and weird times, clearly helped give her what she needed so that one day she could tell this story.” -Manohla Dargis, New York Times

*Closed caption and visual impairment devices are available for this film

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Running Time: 90 min90 MIN
R Rated

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The Stanford Prison Experiment: Leaving Thursday, October 15th

Watch Trailer Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez
Writer(s): Tim Talbott
Cast: Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Billy Crudup
Awards: Sundance 2015 Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Winner (Kyle Patrick Alvarez)

What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong? In 1971 Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days.

“Alvarez captures an emotional immediacy and risk that is deliberately excluded from academic debate.” -Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

“Tim Talbott’s dense script provides much to discuss and argue about, providing both left and right with talking points.” -Kyle Smith, New York Post

“Billy Crudup gives a fine performance as Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who engineered the whole thing and was then pulled into his own power trip.” -J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

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Running Time: 122 min122 MIN
R Rated

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