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Dads Weekend: THE GODFATHER

Watch Trailer Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer(s): Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan and Robert Duvall

“My father taught me many things…”

Celebrate OHIO Dad’s Weekend with a classic movie at Athens’ Historic Theater. Watch Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece on the big screen.

“A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”

Francis Ford Coppola’s epic features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in America, masterfully balancing the story between the Corleone’s family life and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged. Based on Mario Puzo’s best-selling novel and featuring career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall, this searing and brilliant film garnered ten Academy Award nominations, and won three including Best Picture of 1972.

“Francis Ford Coppola has made one of the most brutal and moving chronicles of American life ever designed within the limits of popular entertainment.” – Vincent Canby, New York Times

“As filmmaking and storytelling, ‘The Godfather’ remains a bravura piece of work, its set pieces, dialogue and performances entrenched cinematic icons.” – Ben Walters, Time Out 

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Running Time: 175 Minutes175 MIN
R Rated
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Lost Highway: Let’s Do Lynch

Watch Trailer Director: David Lynch
Writer(s): David Lynch, Barry Gifford
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius

Set in a city suspiciously like Los Angeles, both blazingly modern and resolutely retro in look and feel. A jazz musician, tortured by the notion that his wife is having an affair, suddenly finds himself accused of her murder. In a parallel story, a young mechanic is drawn into a web of deceit by a temptress who is cheating on her gangster boyfriend. These two tales are linked by the fact that both women may, in fact, be the same woman. The men are also connected by a mysterious turn of events that calls into question their very identities.

The Athena Cinema presents “Let’s Do Lynch”, eight weeks of feature films by David Lynch. All shows start at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $6.50.

9/7 &8: Elephant Man
9/14 & 15: Dune
9/21 & 22: Blue Velvet
9/28 & 29: Wild At Heart
10/5&6: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
10/12 & 13: Lost Highway
10/19 & 20: Mulholland Drive
10/26 & 27: Eraserhead

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Running Time: 134 min134 MIN
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Halloween Midnight Movie: ZOMBIELAND

Director: Ruben Fleischer
Writer(s): Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson

You asked for it, we listened. The Athena Cinema is bringing back the midnight movie and we are starting with Halloween Night!
FREE TWINKIES!!!

A cowardly shut-in named Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) is forced to join up with a seasoned zombie slayer named Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) in order to survive the zombie apocalypse. As Tallahassee sets out on a mission to find the last Twinkie on Earth, the duo meets up with Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), two young girls who have resorted to some rather unorthodox methods to survive amidst the chaos. Reluctant partners in the battle against the undead, all four soon begin to wonder if it might be better to simply take their chances alone.

“For rambunctious laughs, you can hardly beat Zombieland, a pedal-to-the-metal mix of ghoul gore, smartmouth humor and filmmaking savvy.” – Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Director Ruben Fleischer has his eyes trained on the comic jugular, and he attains an astronomical laugh count from Rhett Reese and Paul Wernickat’s fizzing, pop-savvy script.” – David Jenkins, Time Out

“Warts, entrails and all, I had a ball at Zombieland.” – Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

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Running Time: 8888 MIN
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Free Universal Premiere: DUMB AND DUMBER TO

Watch Trailer Director: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly
Writer(s): Sean Anders
Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Kathleen Turner, and Rob Riggle

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels reprise their roles as lovable imbeciles Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne in this sequel to Dumb and Dumber from original directing duo Bobby and Peter Farrelly.

Free preview screening. Tickets are first come first serve.

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me: Let’s Do Lynch

Watch Trailer Director: David Lynch
Writer(s): David Lynch, Robert Engels, Mark Frost
Cast: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Mädchen Amick

David Lynch takes us back to the town of damned good cups of coffee and cherry pies in this film prequel to the television series where we actually meet Laura Palmer (Lee) for the first time. Brought in to investigate the mysterious death of nightshift waitress Teresa Banks, special agent Chester Desmond (Isaak) and later Special Agent Dale Cooper (MacLachlan) unravel the bizarre clues, mysterious disappearances, and strange happenings that lead to the last seven days of Laura Palmer’s troubled life…and ultimately the killer.

The Athena Cinema presents “Let’s Do Lynch”, eight weeks of feature films by David Lynch. All shows start at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $6.50.

9/7 &8: Elephant Man
9/14 & 15: Dune
9/21 & 22: Blue Velvet
9/28 & 29: Wild At Heart
10/5&6: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
10/12 & 13: Lost Highway
10/19 & 20: Mulholland Drive
10/26 & 27: Eraserhead

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Running Time: 135 min135 MIN
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Nuit Blanche: Inocente – ONE NIGHT ONLY

Watch Trailer Director: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix

A personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist’s determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past. ‘Inocente’ is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in her story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.

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Running Time: 40 Minutes40 MIN

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Nuit Blanche: Finding Fela! – ONE NIGHT ONLY

Watch Trailer Director: Alex Gibney
Cast: Fela Kuti, Yeni Kuti, and Femi Kuti

Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Kuti’s life (1938 – 1997), his music, and his social and political importance. This in-depth look at the man who created Afrobeat (a fusion of Jazz, traditional West African rhythms, Funk, Highlife, and psychedelic rock) brings audiences close to Mr. Kuti’s fight against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. With his audacious music and a great deal of courage, Fela Kuti helped bring a change towards democracy in Nigeria, promoted Pan Africanist politics to the entire world and became an inspiration in the global fight for the rights of all oppressed people.

“There’s nothing like seeing Fela himself – blowing his sax, expressing his unbridled sexuality and living a life like no other.” – Jim Farber, New York Daily News

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Running Time: 119 Minutes119 MIN
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Nuit Blanche: Bill T. Jones A Good Man – ONE NIGHT ONLY

Watch Trailer Director: Gordon Quinn and Bob Hercules
Cast: Nana Amoah, Bill T. Jones, and Lindsay Jones

 

 

A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones (Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Still/Here, FELA!) as he and his company create their most ambitious work, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial.

Through two tumultuous years, we witness raw moments of frustration as Jones struggles to communicate his vision to his dancers and collaborators, as well as moments of great exhilaration when movement transcends the limitation of words. Jones and his company come face to face with America’s unresolved contradictions about race, equality and the legacy of our 16th President. Initially an indictment of The Great Emancipator, the work evolves into a triumph of hope for our struggling democracy, with Jones revealing that Lincoln was “the only white man I was allowed to love unconditionally.”

Premiering on the heels of Jones’s Tony Award for FELA! and 2010 Kennedy Center Honor, A Good Man is a window into the creative process and, indeed, the creative crisis of one of our nation’s most enduring, provocative artists as he explores what it means to be a good man, to be a free man, to be a citizen.

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Running Time: 86 Minutes86 MIN

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The Zero Theorem: Last Day Thursday, October 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Terry Gilliam
Writer(s): Pat Rushin
Cast: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Lucas Hedges, Tilda Swinton, Matt Damon, and Ben Whishaw

Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)’s madcap science fiction epic The Zero Theorem stars two- time Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst. Living in isolation in a burnt-out church, Qohen is obsessively working on a mysterious project personally delegated to him by Management (Matt Damon) aimed at discovering the meaning of life – or the complete lack of one – once and for all. Increasingly disturbed by unwanted visits from people he doesn’t fully trust, including flirtatious Bainsley (Mélanie Thierry), Management’s wunderkind son Bob (Lucas Hedges), his unpredictable colleague Job (David Thewlis), and would-be digital therapist Dr. Shrink-Rom (Tilda Swinton), it’s only when he experiences the power of love and desire that he’s able to understand his own reason for being.

“Incredibly powerful…The Zero Theorem takes huge philosophical ideas and turns them into a grand sci-fi adventure.” – Todd Gilchrist, The Wrap

“[A] visually splendid nightmare of totalitarian glitz… The Zero Theorem is a spectacle that demands to be cherished.” – Mary Corliss, TIME

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Running Time: 106 minutes106 MIN
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The Skeleton Twins: Last Day Thursday, October 23rd

Watch Trailer Director: Craig Johnson
Writer(s): Mark Heyman and Craig Johnson
Cast: Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell
Awards: Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance Film Festival

After ten years of estrangement, twins Maggie and Milo (“Saturday Night Live’s” Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader) coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their lives went so wrong. As the twins’ reunion reinvigorates them both, they realize that the key to fixing their lives just may lie in fixing their relationship with each other.

“Hader and Wiig give rich, nuanced performances that reflect the chemistry the two actors honed together from their years on Saturday Night Live.” -Thomas Lee, San Francisco Chronicle

“In the same way that “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” redefined Jim Carrey, this affecting and poignant drama-with-laughs shatters your expectations of Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.” – Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Warm, funny, heartfelt and even uplifting, the film is led by revelatory performances from Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, both of them exploring rewarding new dramatic range without neglecting their mad comedic skills.” – David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

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Running Time: 93 Minutes93 MIN
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