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School of Film Thesis Show: Nina Huang’s “That’s How It Goes”

Director: Nina Huang

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A unusual day of a woman who stays home. By the end of the day, has anything really changed?



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Running Time: 15 Minutes15 MIN

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Rear Window

Watch Trailer Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer(s): John Michael Hayes
Cast: James Stewart and Grace Kelly
Awards: British Institute of MNominated for 4 Academy Awards

Professional photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

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Running Time: 112 Minutes112 MIN
PG Rated

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Open Projector Night

We had such a good time at the 1st Open Projector Night, that we’ve decided to put one on each month of Spring Semester! They will be held on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm.

Here are the dates:

April 24th at 7:00

Just bring in your film on the day of the event, between 6:00 and 6:30pm to see it projected on the big screen! Hosted by various members of the hilarious OU Improv Troupe. An audience APPLAUSE-O-METER will decide the winner. Prizes TBA. Admission to the event is FREE thanks to Arts for Ohio.

Thank you to all who participated in making the 1st Ever Open Projector Night a success! Special thanks to Joe LaLonde and Patrick White, our hilarious emcees from the OU Improv Troupe! And congratulations to Brandon Ivey who won the Audience Applause Award for “Trash Thieves”.

Here are the rules:

We’ll play anything you’ve made that’s under 8 minutes long and is brought to us on a DVDor BLU-ray (one film per person, and DVDs must be playable on a regular DVD player). Submissions are only taken on the day of the event, and all entries MUST BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO THE START OF THE ACTUAL SHOW (we cannot accept films after the show has begun, or during intermission). All films are played in the order they’re received.  Remember, the audience decides the winner, so keep them happy!

PLEASE NOTE: We only take the first 10 films that are brought in and the spots usually fill up very fast.

PLEASE BE ADVISED: Since we don’t pre-screen Open Projector entries, we don’t know what each month’s “film content” rating will be. Be advised that some material may not be suitable for all audiences.

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The Impossible

Watch Trailer Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Writer(s): Sergio G. Sanchez
Cast: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor
Awards: Academy Award Nomination for Best Actress

Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds toward her.

‘The Impossible” is the powerful and unforgettable account of a family caught, with tens of thousands of strangers, in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion, courage and simple kindness that Maria and her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives.

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Running Time: 114 Min.114 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Hitchcock Retrospective

Taking place over eight weeks, from January 28th-March 25th, the Athena will be showing Alfred Hitchcock classics. Each film will be introduced by a College of Fine Arts student of Ohio University. From “Vertigo” dubbed the “Greatest Film of All Time” by the British Film Institute’s Sight and Sound Magazine to the more obscure works, we are pleased to bring you this sampling from “the master of suspense”. This comes at a great time for us, as we are pleased to be showing a biographical portrait of the master, starring Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Anthony Hopkins. Come see “Hitchcock” and make it a double feature by staying for one of the classics. We are offering ticket packages in two increments:

4 PACK OF TICKETS TO HITCHCOCK RETROSPECTIVE: $20

8 PACK OF TICKETS TO HITCHCOCK RETROSPECTIVE: $35

Regular admission for individual tickets will be charged at the screenings.

SPECIAL OFFER, LIMITED TIME ONLY: From January 28th-February 7th patrons will receive a COMPLIMENTARY bonus 4 PACK OF TICKETS TO THE HITCHCOCK RETROSPECTIVE with any purchase of a Friends of the Athena Annual Membership.

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Rust and Bone

Watch Trailer Director: Jacques Audiard
Writer(s): Jacques Audiard
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Mattias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure
Awards: Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress and Best Foreign Language Film
Language: French

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali’s bond with Stephanie (Academy Award Winner, Marion Cotillard), a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

“One of the year’s best films precisely because it can’t be boiled down to a message or synopsis. It’s an exercise in style that risks trashiness in search of transcendence, and it’s a sizzling celebration of the power of music, the power of images, and the electric, destructive power of the human body.”–Andrew O’ Hehir, Salon.com

“Romantic but pitiless, fearlessly emotional as well as edgy, Rust and Bone is a powerhouse.”–Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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Running Time: 120 Min.120 MIN
R Rated

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Life of Pi

Watch Trailer Director: Ang Lee
Writer(s): David Magee, Yann Martel
Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan and Adil Hussain
Awards: Nominated for three Golden Globes, Best Motion Picture, Best Director and Best Original Score

Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zookeeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi is found adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.

 

“Life of Pi” both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity.”-Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
“An adventure yarn that is gloriously old-fashioned – and often just glorious.”-Bob Mondello, NPR

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Running Time: 127 Minutes127 MIN
PG Rated

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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

Watch Trailer Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, and Frederic Tcheng
Writer(s): Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Cast: Philippe De Montebello and Diana Vreeland
Awards: Chicago International Film Festival: Silver Hugo Award for Best Documentary

For decades, noted columnist and magazine editor, Diana Vreeland, lead the fashion industry with her bold stylistic taste. This film guides the audience through this fashion pioneer’s long career,  from her youth in Paris to reaching the authoritative role of an editor. In this medium, Vreeland challenged its preconceptions to present a new definition of beauty and vivaciousness where nice clothes were just the beginning for something deeper. Even when that vocation ended, Vreeland managed to gain a new museum profession to present clothing’s history in her own inimitable way.

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Running Time: 86 minutes86 MIN

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Sigur Ros

Watch Trailer Director: Ramin Bahrani, Alma Har'el, John Cameron Mitchell, Evie Ryland and Melika Bass
Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Denna Thomsen, Ryan Heffington, Austin Westbay, and Selma Banich

Icelandic post-rock band, Sigur Ros, has given a dozen filmmakers the same modest budget and has asked them to create whatever comes to mind when listening to their melodic experimental songs from their newest album entitled, Valtari. The concept of this endeavor is to allow freedom of creativity amongst artists while producing an original story and taking inspiration from around the world to execute a masterpiece.

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Passione

Watch Trailer Director: John Turturro
Cast: John Turturro, Max Casella and Lina Sastri
Awards: 2010 Capri Cult Award; 2010 Award of the City of Rome for Best Film

When acclaimed actor-director John Turturro was invited to make a film about Neapolitan music he was intrigued, as an Italian-American who’d grown up with many of the swooning ballads that had become popularized. But when he revisited the place from where these songs had come, and met the artists living there carrying on the tradition, he was completely blown away. Preconceived ideas evaporated and what was meant to be a straight-ahead documentary transformed into a wild fantasia, an adventure into the vibrations of history. In the film’s 23 songs, you can hear the cultures of the city’s many invaders, the Greeks, Arabs, French, Spanish, Normans, and Americans. Eight centuries echo in the aqueducts in “The Song of the Washerwomen.” In “Tammuriata Nera,” WWII is relived as Al Dexter’s twang collides with the primal roar of Peppe Barra. “O Sole Mio” becomes blend of goldenage television performances and the North African vibe, and “Malafemmena” is portrayed for the first time in all its irony, in the context of its very inspiration. The song “Vesuvio” is performed only as it can be by those who live at the foot of the volcano bearing that name. Each song, whether written in protest or superstition, out of love, jealousy, or poverty, is an emotional postcard about what has changed and what has not. As we see, a solitary voice on the street can cause an entire intersection to break out into song. Passione is Turturro’s celebration of a city intensely alive. He has let the film come directly out of the people, the walls that surround them, and the land they inhabit.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
Rating: UR

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