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IN SEARCH OF FELLINI: Q&A with OU Alumna Nancy Cartwright

Watch Trailer Director: Taron Lexton
Writer(s): Nancy Cartwright, Peter Kjenaas
Cast: Maria Bello, Ksenia Solo, Beth Riesgraf

The Athena Cinema is elated and honored to have accomplished actress, writer, and producer Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons, The Replacements) in-house to present her latest film, In Search of Fellini for two screenings: Friday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 23 at 3 p.m. The Athena will host a Q&A with Scripps College of Communication alumna Nancy Cartwright and writer Peter Kjenaas after both screenings.

The film, written by Nancy, is based on the pivotal time in her life when she first discovered the works of Italian director Federico Fellini. Enchanted by his bizarre and powerful portrayals of humanity, a shy and sheltered young woman from Ohio takes a leap of faith by traveling to Italy on her own in the hopes of finding the man whose work she idolizes.

Tickets to these showings are FREE for students thanks to Scripps College of Communication and Arts for Ohio! Admission for non-students is $10, and only $4 for members.

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Tickets for students are made free by Scripps College of Communication, Athena Cinema, and Arts for Ohio

Art House Theater Day: TITICUT FOLLIES with Frederick Wiseman and Wes Anderson

Watch Trailer Director: Frederick Wiseman

Visit the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts with renowned filmmaker Frederick Wiseman in this highly-controversial yet essential documentary, digitally remastered for its 50th Anniversary. Screening includes never-before-seen trial footage plus a special pre-recorded conversation between Frederick Wiseman and Wes Anderson just for Art House Theater Day!

Student tickets are FREE thanks to Arts for Ohio. Regular matinee admission ($5.00) applies to non-students.

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Running Time: 84 minutes84 MIN
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TITICUT FOLLIES is a great work, a near-masterpiece not just of the documentary form, but of moviemaking in any category. It’s a film that transcends the time and place of its manufacture, and it should be seen not just by documentarians and film students but by anyone interested in the movies as a medium capable of powerfully presenting the human condition.

Ray Greene
Village Voice
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Art House Theater Day: REVOLTING RHYMES

Watch Trailer Director: Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh, Bin-Han To
Writer(s): Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl, Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh
Cast: Rob Brydon, Bertie Carvel, Gemma Chan

Last year, to celebrate the 100th birthday of beloved children’s author Roald Dahl, directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer offered a retelling of his classic 1982 poem collection of the same name. While each of the six rhymes is based on a classic fairytale, the five stories featured take unexpected twists and turns that shed new light on the adventures of Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and others.

This feature contains some violence and coarse language.

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There’s a rollicking, insistent verbal rhythm... that builds and builds within each tale, and makes each delicious pun and punchline work doubly hard to make you giggle or explode with naughty satisfaction.

Gerard O'Donovan
Telegraph UK
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Art House Theater Day: Advance Screening of LUCKY

Watch Trailer Director: John Carroll Lynch
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston

A 90-year-old atheist (Harry Dean Stanton) has outlived and out-smoked his contemporaries, and as he comes to terms with his own mortality, he searches for ever-elusive enlightenment. An advanced screening, exclusively playing for Art House Theater Day before you can see it anywhere else!

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A wise and wistful love letter from one remarkable character actor to another.

David Ehrlich
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LANDLINE *Last Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Gillian Robespierre
Cast: Jenny Slate, Edie Falco, Abby Quinn, John Turturro, Jay Duplass, Finn Wittrock

The Manhattan of 1995: a land without cell phones, but abundant in CD listening stations, bar smoke, and family dysfunction. Enter the Jacobs. Eldest daughter Dana’s looming marriage to straight-laced Ben prompts a willful dive into her wild side, while her younger sister, Ali, is still in high school but leads a covert life of sex, drugs, and clubbing. After discovering love letters penned by their father, the sisters try to expose his apparent affair while keeping it from their all-too-composed mother.

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN
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A textured, silly, sweet, and deeply felt comedy.

David Ehrlich
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Masters Mix Tape: THE LAST WALTZ

Watch Trailer Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robbie Robertson, Muddy Waters, Neil Young

Considered by the Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, and many other major outlets as the single greatest rock concert film of all time, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz is a musical goodbye. The documentary catches and preserves The Band’s final concert on Thanksgiving 1976 in San Francisco as they say farewell to their fans with the help of more than a few very special guests.

Feat. The Band • Eric Clapton • Neil Diamond • Bob Dylan • Joni Mitchell • Neil Young • Emmylou Harris • Van Morrison • The Staples • Dr. John Muddy Waters • Paul Butterfield • Ronnie Hawkins • Ringo Starr • Ron Wood

BIG SCREEN. BIG SOUND. NOT ON NETFLIX.

MASTERS OF FILM DIRECTION AND GROUNDBREAKING MUSICIANS TOGETHER FOR THE GREATEST MUSIC DOCS OF ALL TIME.

 

 

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Running Time: 117 minutes117 MIN
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The greatest rock concert movie ever made -- and maybe the best rock movie, period.

Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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YEAH MAYBE NO

Watch Trailer Director: Kelly Kend

The Better Bystanders and the Campus Involvement Center presents Yeah Maybe No as part of the annual A Mile Together (to end Power-Based Personal Violence) event. Follow the Better Bystanders on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @OHIObystander. Want a bystander intervention workshop for your group, class, or club?  Email us at bystander@ohio.edu!

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After campus activists bring attention to sexual assault to Reed college, Blake, a young gay man, realizes that his past early sexual encounters were more than just bad learning experiences. But gaps in the legal system and difficulties in getting peer support leave Blake feeling uncomfortable in his new identity as a survivor.

Testimony from experts in sexual violence and the filmmaker’s own assault offer context for understanding how each story of sexual assault is both commonplace and unique. Yeah Maybe No ultimately challenges audiences to see the complexity of sexual assault in order to more fully support survivors.

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...a more subtle exploration of our ingrained attitudes about sexual assault—what constitutes it, who it happens to, how we recover from it, and how we can respond more effectively to survivors.

Thomas G. Fiffer
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THE MIDWIFE *Last Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet

Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire’s late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together in this sharp character study from the César-award winning director Martin Provost (Séraphine).

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Provost's film is, in the end, a story about attaining the wisdom that comes from forgiveness and the acceptance of those things - namely the past and the future - that none of us can control.

Michael O'Sullivan
The Washington Post
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THE B-SIDE: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography * Lady Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Errol Morris
Cast: Elsa Dorfman

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20×24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.

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Running Time: 76 minutes76 MIN
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It’s an endlessly charming film focused on a woman whose view of life is one to be envied.

Benjamin Lee
The Guardian
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Masters Mix Tape: THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Watch Trailer Director: Penelope Spheeris
Cast: Alice Bag Band, Alice Bag, Claude Bessey

“See it in a theater… where you can’t get hurt,” The Decline of Western Civilization provides a no-holds barred look at the underground punk scene in the late 70s/early 80s. After its midnight release in 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police wrote a letter to director Penelope Spheeris, (who went on to direct two sequels as well as the cult classic Wayne’s World), demanding that she never show the film in Los Angeles again. She did not obey his request.

Feat. Alice Bag Band • Black Flag • Circle Jerks • Catholic Discipline • Fear • Germs • X

BIG SCREEN. BIG SOUND. NOT ON NETFLIX.

MASTERS OF FILM DIRECTION AND GROUNDBREAKING MUSICIANS TOGETHER FOR THE GREATEST MUSIC DOCS OF ALL TIME

 

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Running Time: 100 minutes100 MIN
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A bracing, stimulating and technically superb close-up look at the LA punk scene, pic is pitched at a perfect distance to allow for simultaneous engagement in the music and spectacle, and for rueful contemplation of what it all might mean.

Variety Staff
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