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Athena Cinema & AUBA UPTOWN TRICK-OR-TREAT NIGHT MOVIE: HOCUS POCUS

Watch Trailer Director: Kenny Ortega
Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy

Join us for our 1st ever Uptown Trick-or-Treat night movie! Costumes encouraged!

In the pantheon of nostalgic films, you would be hard-pressed to find a more fun Halloween throwback than 1993’s Hocus Pocus. Featuring peak performances from Bette Midler, Kathy Najimi, & Sarah Jessica Parker as three snippy witch sisters resurrected in Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween night 300 years after their trial, all the ingredients are there for a hilarious brew of triple toil and trouble.

Free Admission sponsored by Ohio University Credit Union and the Athena Cinema.

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Running Time: 96 Minutes96 MIN
PG Rated
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Halloween Midnight Movie: HAUSU

Watch Trailer Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Writer(s): Chiho Katsura, Chigumi Ôbayashi
Cast: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ohba

1977 Asian horror cult classic in which a schoolgirl travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions.

Admission is $6.66

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Running Time: 88 min88 MIN
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Delirious, deranged, gonzo or just gone, baby, gone — no single adjective or even a pileup does justice to 'House.'

Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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Beat the Heat: THE SECRET GARDEN

Watch Trailer Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writer(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett, Caroline Thompson
Cast: Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse

Featuring a special presentation on pollinators by Teresa Caldwell from the Athens Soil & Water Conservation District.

Learn about milkweed, monarch butterflies, bees and more.

Children will be given Info booklets and seed packets to start their own “secret garden”.

Film Screening of “The Secret Garden” to follow.

A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle’s estate. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected. Aided by one of the servants’ brothers, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.

During the summer the Athena Cinema presents BEAT THE HEAT $2 DAYS. Every year, the summer series showcases children’s and family friendly films with discounted admission, raffle prizes, giveaways and more. Get out of the heat and come enjoy the cool air conditioning, delicious concessions and movies that every child should see on the big screen!

To benefit Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Athens County, the price of admission to these screenings is a suggested minimum donation of $2 per ticket.

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Running Time: 101 min101 MIN
G Rated
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The result is an instant classic -- rich, dense, resonant, powerful.

Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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Sustainability Series: SAMUEL IN THE CLOUDS

Watch Trailer Director: Pieter Van Eecke

In Bolivia, the glaciers are melting. Samuel, a ski lift operator, is looking out of a window on the rooftop of the world. Through many generations his family lived and worked in the snowy mountains, but now snow fails. While scientists are discussing and measuring ominous changes Samuel honors the ancient mountain spirits. Clouds continue to drift by.

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Running Time: 70 min70 MIN
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Dads Weekend: TOMMY BOY

Watch Trailer Director: Peter Segal
Cast: Chris Farley, David Spade, Brian Dennehy

This 1995 classic might be most remembered for assembling one of the funniest on-screen comedy duos of all time, but it is also a heartwarming story about a lovable kid from Sandusky trying to make his father proud. Big Toms and Tommy’s alike will be rolling in the aisles when we bring the car-crashing, cow–tipping, and coat-ripping hilarity to the big screen for one weekend only!

Admission is $4.00 for members.

Admission is $7.00 for non-members.

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Running Time: 97 minutes97 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Tommy Boy is a good belly laugh of a movie.

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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LADY VALOR: The Kristin Beck Story

Watch Trailer Director: Sandrine Orabona, Mark Herzog

In Lady Valor: The Kristin Beck Story, former U.S. Navy SEAL Christopher Beck embarks on a new mission as Kristin Beck. Kristin’s journey in search of the American ideals that she protected have a whole new meaning as she lives her life truthfully as a transgender woman.

Lady Valor is presented free with a panel discussion taking place after the show.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
Not Rated
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This event is sponsored by WGSS, OMSAR, Alden Library, Multicultural Center, Veterans Center, Women’s Center, Athena Cinema, Critical Studies, Diversity Studies, Cutler Scholars, Honors Tutorial College, and the Athens Center for Film and Video

Sustainability Series: SAVING MES AYNAK & OUR LAST REFUGE

Watch Trailer Director: Brent E. Huffman (Aynak) & Daniel Glick (Refuge)

Saving Mes Aynak

Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining company is closing in on the ancient site, eager to harvest $100 billion dollars worth of copper buried directly beneath the archaeological ruins. Only 10% of Mes Aynak has been excavated and some believe future discoveries at the site have the potential to redefine the history of Afghanistan and the history of Buddhism itself. Qadir Temori and his fellow Afghan archaeologists face what seems an impossible battle against the Chinese, the Taliban and local politics to save their cultural heritage from likely erasure. Saving Mes Aynak examines the conflict between cultural preservation and economic opportunity through the lens of the Afghan archaeologists and local villagers who work and live near Mes Aynak.

Our Last Refuge

This is the story of the Badger-Two Medicine, the sacred homeland of the Blackfeet Nation, and the decades-long struggle to protect it from gas exploration. Located at the intersection of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Glacier National Park, and the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the Badger is an undeveloped expanse of mountains, ridges, river valleys, and wetlands. In 1981, the U.S. government illegally leased the Badger at $1 per acre for oil and gas development—without consulting the Blackfeet Tribe and without conducting a proper environmental review. One of the highest profile conservation efforts in recent history, Our Last Refuge is the first in-depth telling of this critical struggle.

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Running Time: 86 min86 MIN
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Holiday Film Series: Double Feature: HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS & THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS

Director: Grinch: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam. Santa: Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass
Writer(s): Grinch: Theodore S. Geisel. Santa: William J. Keenan, Phyllis McGinley
Cast: Grinch: Boris Karloff, June Foray. Santa: Mickey Rooney, Shirley Booth, Dick Shawn, George S. Irving

November 30th thru December 16th, Ohio University’s Athena Cinema will partner with the Department of Real Estate Management, Community Engagement and Economic Development to show popular holiday family films! The price of admission will be a minimum donation of one canned or non perishable food good per ticket to be donated to Athens city food pantries and other hunger relief programs. Cash donations are also accepted. As part of the event patrons will also receive a complimentary snowflake cookie to enjoy during the movie.

We’ll be kicking off our Holiday Film Series with two beloved Christmas movies for the whole family! We’ll be playing these two classics the night of the Athens Tree Lighting Celebration on Thursday, November 30th at 7pm. First, a bitter and hateful Grinch is making his way to the Athena in the 1966 traditional Christmas movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas, he raids the village dressed as Santa Claus to steal Christmas! Next up is the 1974 Christmas TV classic, The Year Without a Santa Claus. When a weary and discouraged Santa Claus considers skipping his Christmas Eve run one year, Mrs. Claus and his Elves set out to change his mind.

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Running Time: 26 minutes26 MIN
Not Rated
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A seasonal classic.

Derek Adams
Time Out
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THE BEGUILED

Watch Trailer Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning

The Beguiled is an atmospheric thriller from acclaimed writer/director Sofia Coppola. The story unfolds during the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school. Its sheltered young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.

 

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Running Time: 104 minutes104 MIN
R Rated
Closed Captioning is available for this film. Open Captioning is available for this film. Descriptive Aids are available for this film. This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

The Beguiled is Coppola's bloodiest, most visceral movie to date, and it is also one of her best.

Julia Cooper
Globe and Mail
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THE LITTLE HOURS *Last Day Thursday*

Watch Trailer Director: Jeff Baena
Cast: Alison Brie, Dave Franco, Kate Micucci

Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of substance abuse and wicked revelry.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
R Rated
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The film manages to be both crudely hilarious and bluntly satiric while also establishing sympathetic characters, a sharp contemporary wit, a sly, dry absurdism ... and a "Handmaid's Tale"-like subversiveness.

Peter Keough
Boston Globe
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