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The Broken Circle Breakdown

Watch Trailer Director: Felix Van Groeningen
Writer(s): Johan Heldenbergh, Mieke Dobbels, Carl Joos, Felix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
Cast: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh and Nell Cattrysse
Awards: Won Best Actress and Best Screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival
Language: Flemish

Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage — but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN is a romantic melodrama of the highest order.

“This Belgian drama is the real deal, an alternately wrenching and ecstatic viewing experience, adapted from a play by lead actor Johan Heldenbergh.”-Sara Stewart, New York Post

“The soundtrack is irresistible, the cast is enthralling and the passions are universal.”-Colin Cover, Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Running Time: 111 minutes111 MIN
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Dallas Buyers Club: Playing through Thursday, January 9th

Watch Trailer Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Writer(s): Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto
Awards: Won Desert Palm Achievement Award at the 2014 Palms Springs International Film Festival

A son of Texas, Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is an electrician and rodeo cowboy. In 1985, he is well into an unexamined existence with a devil-may-care lifestyle. Suddenly, Ron is blindsided by being diagnosed as HIV positive and given 30 days to live. Yet he will not, and does not, accept a death sentence.

His crash course of research reveals a lack of approved treatments and medications in the U.S., so Ron crosses the border into Mexico. There, he learns about alternative treatments and begins smuggling them into the U.S., challenging the medical and scientific community including his concerned physician, Dr. Eve Saks (Jennifer Garner).

An outsider to the gay community, Ron finds an unlikely ally in fellow AIDS patient Rayon (Jared Leto), a transsexual who shares Ron’s lust for life. Rayon also shares Ron’s entrepreneurial spirit: seeking to avoid government sanctions against selling non-approved medicines and supplements, they establish a “buyers club,” where HIV positive people pay monthly dues for access to the newly acquired supplies. Deep in the heart of Texas, Ron’s pioneering underground collective beats loud and strong. With a growing community of friends and clients, Ron fights for dignity, education, and acceptance. In the years following his diagnosis, the embattled Lone Star loner lives life to the fullest like never before.

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Running Time: 117 minutes117 MIN
R Rated

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Philomena

Watch Trailer Director: Stephen Frears
Writer(s): Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope and Martin Sixsmith
Cast: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan and Sophie Kennedy Clark
Awards: Won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival

PHILOMENA is the true story of one mother’s search for her lost son.

Falling pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” When her baby was only a toddler, he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena spent the next fifty years searching for him in vain.

Then she met Martin Sixsmith, a world-weary political journalist who happened to be intrigued by her story. Together they set off for America on a journey that would not only reveal the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son, but also create an unexpectedly close bond between them.

The film is a compelling narrative of human love and loss and ultimately celebrates life. It is both funny and sad and concerns two very different people, at different stages of their lives, who help each other and show that there is laughter even in the darkest places.

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Running Time: 98 minutes98 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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The New Black: Playing Wed & Thurs, November 20th and 21st

Watch Trailer Director: Yoruba Richen
Writer(s): Erin Casper, Yoruba Richen
Awards: Best Documentary at Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

THE NEW BLACK is a documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar — the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda.

THE NEW BLACK takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets and provides a seat at the kitchen table as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.

Brought to you by the Athena Cinema, Film Division, Office of Multicultural Student Access and Retention, LGBT Center, Women’s Center, Campus Involvement Center, Multicultural Center, Black Student Cultural Programming Board.

TWO NIGHTS ONLY! THE NEW BLACK will be screened on November 20th and 21st at 7:00. The film will be followed by a discussion. Free Admission, there are a limited number of seats and admission is on a first come, first serve basis.

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Running Time: 80 minutes80 MIN
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Diana

Watch Trailer Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Writer(s): Stephen Jeffreys and Kate Snell
Cast: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews and Douglas Hodge

When Princess Diana flew to Pakistan in May 1997, she went to meet the family of Dr. Hasnat Khan, the man she wanted to marry. One of the most famous and beautiful women in the world, she hoped to persuade Dr. Khan’s mother that she would make a suitable wife for her son. Had she succeeded, the events of that summer might have been very different…

DIANA is a love story about family, friendship and the calamity of fame.

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Running Time: 113 minutes113 MIN
Rating: Rated PG-13

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THE EXORCIST

Watch Trailer Director: William Friedkin
Writer(s): William Peter Blatty
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Linda Blair
Awards: Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (1974)

Controversial and popular from the moment it opened, THE EXORCIST endures as a defining classic that influenced movies afterward and still shocks and haunts today. The frightening and realistic tale of an innocent girl inhabited by a terrifying entity, her mother’s frantic resolve to save her and two priests – one doubt-ridden, the other a rock of faith – joined in battling ultimate evil always leaves viewers breathless.

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Running Time: 122 minutes122 MIN
Rating: Rated R
This Film is Wheelchair Accessible

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WALLACE & GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT

Watch Trailer Director: Steve Box, Nick Park
Writer(s): Steve Box, Nick Park, Mark Burton and Bob Baker
Cast: Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter and Ralph Fiennes
Awards: Won an Academy Award for the Best Animated Feature Film of the Year (2006)

It’s ‘vege-mania’ in Wallace and Gromit’s neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, “Anti-Pesto.” With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a “humane” pest control outfit has its drawbacks as their West Wallaby Street home fills to the brim with captive rabbits.

Suddenly, a huge, mysterious, veg-ravaging “beast” begins attacking the town’s sacred vegetable plots at night, and the competition hostess, Lady Tottington, commissions Anti-Pesto to catch it and save the day. Lying in wait, however, is Lady Tottington’s snobby suitor, Victor Quartermaine, who’d rather shoot the beast and secure the position of local hero – not to mention Lady Tottingon’s hand in marriage. With the fate of the competition in the balance, Lady Tottington is eventually forced to allow Victor to hunt down the vegetable chomping marauder. Little does she know that Victor’s real intent could have dire consequences for her …and our two heroes.

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Running Time: 85 minutes85 MIN
Rating: Rated G
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Age of Champions

Watch Trailer Director: Christopher Rufo

AGE OF CHAMPIONS is the inspiring story of five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. You’ll meet a 100 year-old tennis champion, 86 year-old pole vaulter, and rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers as they triumph over the limitations of age. When one athlete loses a spouse and another is diagnosed with cancer, they’ve got to dig even deeper to make their Olympic dreams come true.

These special event screenings are sponsored in part by you by the Athens Foundation, the Appalachian Community Visiting Nurse Association, the Athena Cinema and Arts for Ohio.

Screenings will take place November 12-14th at 5:00 and 7:00 with a special matinee screening at 3:00 on Saturday, November 16th.

Thanks to Arts for Ohio, there will be a limited number of FREE student tickets. Tickets for seniors (60+) will also be free. Regular admission applies to non-students, non-seniors. Regular admission is $6.50, matinees (any show before 6 pm) is $5.00. To make arrangements to bring a large group or class, please contact Alexandra Kamody, Operations Director at kamodya@ohio.edu or call 740.594.7382

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Running Time: 70 minutes70 MIN

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In a World…

Watch Trailer Director: Lake Bell
Writer(s): Lake Bell
Cast: Lake Bell, Jeff Garlin, Fred Melamed
Awards: Won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival

Lake Bell (No Strings Attached, “Children’s Hospital”) stars in IN A WORLD…, a hilarious and heart-felt comedy about a struggling vocal coach who strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry’s reigning king — her father.

Written and directed by Bell, who won the Sundance 2013 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for the script, IN A WORLD… also stars Fred Melamed (A Serious Man), Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), Demetri Martin (“Important Things with Demetri Martin”), Michaela Watkins (“Enlightened”), Ken Marino (“Burning Love”), Nick Offerman (“Parks and Recreation”), Alexandra Holden (The Hot Chick) and Tig Notaro (“The Sarah Silverman Program”).

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN
R Rated

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Blue Caprice

Watch Trailer Director: Alexandre Moors
Writer(s): R.F.I. Porto
Cast: Isaiah Washington, Tequan Richmond, Tim Blake Nelson

BLUE CAPRICE is inspired by the Beltway sniper attacks during which two men, John Muhammed (Isaiah Washington) and Lee Malvo (Tequan Richmond), conducted a siege of terror on the Washington, D.C., area. Their method: a series of random shootings in public places. Their weapon: a sniper rifle, fired from the trunk of a blue Chevrolet Caprice. The film investigates the genesis of those horrific events from the point of view of the two shooters, whose distorted father-son relationship facilitated their long and bloody journey across America.

Marked by captivating performances, lyrical camerawork, and a fractured structure, BLUE CAPRICE documents the mechanisms that lead its subjects to embrace physical violence. Eschewing the conventional approach familiar to the genre, director Alexandre Moors utilizes a formidable cinematic lexicon to concoct a harrowing psychological exploration of the two cold-blooded killers that will make a forceful impact on audiences that remains long after the lights come up.

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN
R Rated

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