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Gideon’s Army: Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week Movie

Watch Trailer Director: Dawn Porter
Writer(s): Matthew Hamachek, Dawn Porter
Awards: Official Selection 2013 Sundance Film Festival, winner Editing Award: US Documentary.

One Night Only! Gideon’s Army will be screened on Tuesday, January 21st at 7:00 PM as part of the MLK Jr. Celebration Week. FREE Admission.

Gideon’s Army follows Travis Williams, Brandy Alexander and June Hardwick, three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. Backed by mentor Jonathan “Rap” Rapping, a charismatic leader who heads the Southern Public Defender Training Center, they struggle against long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads so common that even the most committed often give up in their first year. Nearly 50 years since the landmark Supreme Court ruling Gideon vs. Wainwright that established the right to counsel, can these courageous lawyers revolutionize the way America thinks about indigent defense and make “justice for all” a reality?

“Gideon’s Army does what the best documentaries have always done: It makes us think about something we’d rather not.” -David Hinckley, New York Daily News

“Compelling insight into the staggering pressures faced by court-appointed public defenders.” -Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter

“Like the film itself, Porter’s handful of devoted, charismatic attorneys do a righteous job of reminding people that the accused are innocent until proven guilty, and that the criminal justice system seems otherwise disposed.” -John Anderson, Variety

 

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Running Time: 96 Minutes96 MIN
Rating: Unrated

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ROSEMARY’S BABY

Watch Trailer Director: Roman Polanski
Writer(s): Roman Polanski, Ira Levin
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Awards: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Horrifying and darkly comic, Rosemary’s Baby was Roman Polanski’s Hollywood debut. This wildly entertaining nightmare, faithfully adapted from Ira Levin’s best seller, stars a revelatory Mia Farrow as a young mother-to-be who grows increasingly suspicious that her overfriendly elderly neighbors (played by Sidney Blackmer and an Oscar-winning Ruth Gordon) and self-involved husband (John Cassavetes) are hatching a satanic plot against her and her baby. In the decades of occult cinema that Polanski’s ungodly masterpiece has spawned, it has never been outdone for sheer psychological terror.

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Running Time: 136 Minutes136 MIN
R Rated
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

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Concussion

Watch Trailer Director: Stacie Passon
Writer(s): Stacie Passon
Cast: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnathan Tchaikovsky
Awards: Official Selection at Sundance

After a blow to the head, Abby (Robin Weigert) decides she can’t do it anymore. Her life just can’t be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more. She needs to be Eleanor.

“The near-imperceptible finesse of Abby’s characterization reflects writer-director Stacie Passon’s effortless, interesting mix of richness and economy.” – R. Kurt Osenlund, Slant Magazine

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Running Time: 93 Minutes93 MIN
R Rated

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Inequality for All

Watch Trailer Director: Jacob Kornbluth
Cast: Robert Reich
Awards: Winner of Documentary Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2013
Language: English

A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, Inequality For All features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and former U.S. Labor Secretary—as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy.

Smart, funny and articulate, Robert Reich is the university professor we all wish we’d had. He’s so accessible and entertaining he takes a subject that sounds soporific and makes it come alive like you wouldn’t believe in “Inequality for All.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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Running Time: 89 Minutes89 MIN
PG Rated

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Romeo and Juliet

Watch Trailer Director: Carlo Carlei
Writer(s): Julian Fellowes (screenplay), William Shakespeare (play)
Cast: Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis
Language: English

An ageless story from the world’s most renowned author is reimagined for the 21st Century. This adaptation is told in the lush traditional setting it was written, but gives a new generation the chance to fall in love with the enduring legend. With an all-star cast including Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Paul Giamatti and Stellan Skarsgard, it affords those unfamiliar with the tale the chance to put faces to the two names they’ve undoubtedly heard innumerable times: Romeo and Juliet. Every generation deserves to discover this lasting love.

 

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Running Time: 118 Minutes118 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Border Post with Director Rajko Grlic

Director: Rajko Grlic
Writer(s): Rajko Grlic, Ante Tomic
Cast: Toni Gojanovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic
Awards: Winner of Multiple Festival Awards including Best Director
Language: Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian

The Office of Research and the Graduate College, in conjunction with the Athena Cinema, will be hosting a free screening of the film, Border Post by internationally renowned filmmaker and Eminent Scholar in film at Ohio University, Rajko Grlic as part of the International Educational Week.  Professor Grlic will introduce his film prior to the screening. ONE NIGHT ONLY, November 14th at 7:30

BORDER POST

At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war. These are the last days of the country called Yugoslavia. Yet no one knew at the time.

Daily routine of the army is disrupted by unusual circumstances. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Safet Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins. He seeks help from the only doctor among the soldiers, Sinisa Sircevic, who finds out, very discretely, that it’s a sexually transmitted disease. Not wishing his wife to know about it and trying to find excuses not to go home, Pasic declares a state of emergency, claiming that the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A joke transforms into war hysteria: soldiers dig trenches, Pasic grows wilder as days go by, Sinisa embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his best friend Ljuba Paunovic makes an unconditional decision to leave the army. The situation slowly runs out of control…

Speaking about not so distant past with no nostalgia and no hatred, Border Post is a comedy about people on the verge of tragedy.

“Rajko Grlic’s film is a sometimes wistful, sometimes farcical comedy, in the honorable Eastern European tradition, set along the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the halcyon days of 1987.”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

 

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Running Time: 94 Minutes94 MIN
Not Rated

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Austenland

Watch Trailer Director: Jerusha Hess
Writer(s): Jerusha Hess and Shannon Hale
Cast: Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Jennifer Coolidge, Bret McKenzie

Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined.

Decked out in empire-waist gowns, Jane struggles to master Regency etiquette and flirts with gardeners and gentlemen; or maybe even, she suspects, with the actors who are playing them. It’s all a game, Jane knows. And yet the longer she stays, the more her insecurities seem to fall away, and the more she wonders: Is she about to kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?

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Running Time: 97 minutes97 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Watch Trailer Director: David Lowery
Writer(s): David Lowery
Cast: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine
Awards: Won the Cinematography Award and Indian Paintbrush Producer's Award at Sundance

Brought to life with exquisite detail and rich cinematography by Bradford Young (winner of the US Dramatic Cinematography Award at Sundance), the gritty landscape of 1970s Texas Hill Country is the backdrop for this mood-drenched collision of love and crime. After his pregnant wife (Rooney Mara) makes one false move during a bloody shootout, a bank robber (Casey Affleck) faces a 25-year sentence that destroys his dreams of a family life. Shot through with the yearning and melancholy of a folk ballad, David Lowery’s directorial breakthrough — one of the most acclaimed films at Sundance and a special Critics’ Week selection at Cannes — extends the Bonnie and Clyde tradition with its breathtaking meditation on the fragility and transience of love.

“The feel of the movie is intimate and handmade, as if Lowery were renewing, lovingly and poignantly, the landscape’s ruined landmarks and infusing them with his own memories and dream.”-Richard Brody, New Yorker
“It marks the arrival of an immense talent who will be new to most moviegoers – although Lowery is a well-known figure in the indie-film world – and it’s surely one of the best American films of the year.”-Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

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Running Time: 96 minutes96 MIN
R Rated

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The Act of Killing

Watch Trailer Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christin Cynn
Cast: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara
Language: Indonesian, English

Anwar Congo and his friends have been dancing their way through musical numbers, twisting arms in film noir gangster scenes, and galloping across prairies as yodelling cowboys. Their foray into filmmaking is being celebrated in the media and debated on television, even though Anwar Congo and his friends are mass murderers. Medan, Indonesia. When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, Anwar and his friends were promoted from small-time gangsters who sold movie theatre tickets on the black market to death squad leaders. They helped the army kill more than one million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese, and intellectuals in less than a year. As the executioner for the most notorious death squad in his city, Anwar himself killed hundreds of people with his own hands.

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Running Time: 115 Minutes115 MIN
Not Rated

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Blue Jasmine

Watch Trailer Director: Woody Allen
Writer(s): Woody Allen
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, Louis C.K., Sally Hawkins, Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard, Bobby Cannavale

After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.

“A jaw-dropping work, what we go to the movies hoping to see, and we do. Blanchett is beyond brilliant, beyond analysis. Her performance is one for the books.”-Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

“Richly chronicled characters, sharp dialogue and that stupendous centerpiece performance by Cate Blanchett are contributing factors in the best summer movie of 2013 and one of the most memorable Woody Allen movies ever.”-Rex Reed, New York Observer

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Running Time: 98 Minutes98 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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