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Mud

Watch Trailer Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer(s): Jeff Nichols
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland and Sam Shepard
Awards: Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival

Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios-he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn’t long until Mud’s visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.

“Mud is steeped in a sense of place, and the people inhabiting it. Southern. Superstitious. Suspenseful. Sublime.”-Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

“It’s hard to believe Nichols thinks he can get away with all this and harder still to believe he does.”-David Edelstein, New York Magazine”Writer/director Jeff Nichols creates richly realized characters in a tale that moves like a cottonmouth viper, advancing slowly until it strikes with sudden violence.”-Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Running Time: 130130 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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The Iceman

Watch Trailer Director: Ariel Vromen
Writer(s): Morgan Land
Cast: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, James Franco
Awards: Capri Breakout Director Award to Ariel Vromen

The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer believed to have murdered over a hundred people while maintaining a seemingly normal life with his wife and children.

“Michael Shannon’s mesmerizing portrayal of Richard Kuklinski, a notorious contract killer, has the paradoxical quality, peculiar to many great screen performances, of being unreadable and transparent.”-Stephen Holden, New York Times

“Shannon could be looking at an Oscar nomination. His performance is that stone-cold good.”-Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

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Running Time: 106 Minutes106 MIN
R Rated

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Trance

Watch Trailer Director: Danny Boyle
Writer(s): Joe Ahearne, John Hodge
Cast: James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel and Rosario Dawson

Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auctioneer, teams up with a criminal gang to steal a Goya painting worth millions of dollars, but after suffering a blow to the head during the heist he awakens to discover he has no memory of where he hid the painting. When physical threats and torture fail to produce answers, the gang’s leader Frank (Vincent Cassel) hires hypnotherapist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) to delve into the darkest recesses of Simon’s psyche. As Elizabeth begins to unravel Simon’s broken subconscious, the lines between truth, suggestion, and deceit begin to blur.

“Mr. Boyle is a flamboyant visual stylist with a punk rocker’s delight in anarchic jolts. His is a cinema of attraction and repulsion.”- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

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Running Time: 101 Minutes101 MIN
R Rated

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Happy Feet: Kid’s Movie after KidFest!

Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!

Price of Admission is an article of children’s clothing–gently used please!Happy Feet

 

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Emperor

Watch Trailer Director: Peter Webber
Writer(s): Vera Blasi
Cast: Matthew Fox, Colin Moy and Tommy Lee Jones

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

 

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Running Time: 105 Minutes105 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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Thank You Everyone Who Attended the 40th Athens Film+Video Festival!

The Athena Cinema has been “home base” for the Film Festival since its founding in 1974; each spring the Athena hosts the Festival and over 250 films and videos that comprise a global mix of genres, styles and approaches to filmmaking.  Now entering its 40th year, the 2013 Athens International Film and Video Festival takes place April 12 – 18th.  For more information, visit:  www.athensfest.org

To download a PDF of the 2013 fest program, click here.

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Spring Breakers

Watch Trailer Director: Harmony Korine
Cast: James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine

Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning… During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug charges. Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien, an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history. Rough on the outside but with a soft spot inside, Alien wins over the hearts of the young Spring Breakers, and leads them on a Spring Break they never could have imagined.

 “A half hour, four hours, two days after walking away from it you might still flashback to its seductive, neon-lit, dayglow world.”-Adam Graham, Detroit News
 “Korine likes the poetics of transgression, and he trowels on the bad behavior with a heavy but mesmerizing hand.”-Ty Burr, Boston Globe

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Running Time: 94 Minutes94 MIN
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Sustainability Screening: LAST CALL AT THE OASIS

Watch Trailer Director: Jessica Yu

Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, FOOD, INC. and WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century.

Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, exposing the defects in the current system and depicting communities already struggling with its ill-effects, the film features activist Erin Brockovich and such distinguished experts as Peter Gleick, Alex Prud’homme, Jay Famiglietti and Robert Glennon.

 

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Running Time: 105 Minutes105 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Side Effects

Watch Trailer Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer(s): Scott Z. Burns
Cast: Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones

A young woman’s world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.

“This neatly executed mystery is just the sort of thing Hollywood craves from Steven Soderbergh: genre entertainment as cool, clean, and impersonal as a Formica countertop.”–J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

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Running Time: 106 Minutes106 MIN
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Stoker

Watch Trailer Director: Park Chan-wook
Writer(s): Wentworth Miller
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Goode

After India’s father dies in an auto accident, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her emotionally unstable mother. Soon after his arrival, she comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives, but instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless girl becomes increasingly infatuated with him.

It may be Mr. Park’s reputation that induces a state of queasy anticipation in the early scenes of “Stoker.” But it is also, unquestionably, his craft.”–A.O. Scott, New York Times

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Running Time: 99 Minutes99 MIN
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