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Dads Weekend: MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN

Watch Trailer Director: Terry Jones
Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin

Monty Python delivers the group’s sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood’s epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe them. At it’s center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken for the promised messiah, providing ample opportunity for the entire ensemble (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) to shine in multiple roles as they question everyone and everything from ex-lepers, Pontius Pilate and haggling to revolutionaries, crazy prophets, religious fanaticism, Roman centurions and crucifixion, forever changing our biblical view.

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Running Time: 94 min94 MIN
R Rated
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Still holds up beautifully, as both pointed satire and silly, stakes-free comedy.

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post
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Sibs Weekend Marathon: HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCEROR’S STONE

Watch Trailer Director: Chris Columbus
Writer(s): J.K. Rowling (novel), Steve Kloves (screenplay)
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Join us in reliving all of Harry’s firsts on the big screen. From shopping at Diagon Alley with Hagrid to meeting Ron and Hermione, THE SORCERER’S STONE is sure to take you back to the moment where your love for the wizarding world began.

This film is a part of a 12-hour marathon featuring the first four films in the Harry Potter series. There will be Harry Potter-themed snacks available, and Ohio University’s Harry Potter Alliance will be hosting trivia and costume contests. Viewers, beware! This film features scary creatures, magic, mischievous 11-year-olds, and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Individual film tickets are $7 each. All days passes are $20.

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Running Time: 152 min. 152 MIN
PG Rated
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is a red-blooded adventure movie, dripping with atmosphere, filled with the gruesome and the sublime, and surprisingly faithful to the novel.

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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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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Sibs Weekend Marathon: HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

Watch Trailer Director: Chris Columbus
Writer(s): J.K. Rowling (novel), Steve Kloves (screenplay)
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint

“The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. Enemies of the heir, beware.” With this ominous message, we begin our journey to discover who opened the chamber and who the mysterious Tom Riddle is. Warning: don’t go into the girls’ bathroom alone. Moaning Myrtle can’t protect you.

This film is a part of a 12-hour marathon featuring the first four films in the Harry Potter series. There will be Harry Potter-themed snacks available, and Ohio University’s Harry Potter Alliance will be hosting trivia and costume contests. Viewers, beware! This film features scary creatures, fake blood, an gaggle of redheads, and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Individual film tickets are $7 each. All days passes are $20.

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Running Time: 161 min161 MIN
PG Rated
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Darker, funnier and more action-packed than the first film, 'Chamber' seems inspired as much by Steven Spielberg's galloping 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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Sibs Weekend Marathon: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

Watch Trailer Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer(s): J.K. Rowling (novel), Steve Kloves (screenplay)
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint

Sirius Black has escaped from the wizarding prison, Azkaban! But is he as dangerous as everyone thinks he is? And what is his connection to Harry? Enjoy the time-traveling adventures of the trio, find out the spooky origins of the Whomping Willow, and watch Hermione (finally!) punch Malfoy in the third installment of the franchise.

This film is a part of a 12-hour marathon featuring the first four films in the Harry Potter series. There will be Harry Potter-themed snacks available, and Ohio University’s Harry Potter Alliance will be hosting trivia and costume contests. Viewers, beware! This film features scary creatures, murderous trees, time travel, and adolescent angst.

Individual film tickets are $7 each. All days passes are $20.

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Running Time: 142 min. 142 MIN
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Not only is this dazzler by far the best and most thrilling of the three Harry Potter movies to date, it's a film that can stand on its own even if you never heard of author J.K. Rowling and her young wizard hero.

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Sibs Weekend Marathon: HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

Watch Trailer Director: Mike Newell
Writer(s): J.K Rowling (novel), Steve Kloves (screenplay)
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint

It’s time for the Triwizard Tournament! Who will win the legendary tournament? Will jealously rear its ugly head at the Yule Ball? Join us in watching our final film in the series, THE GOBLET OF FIRE. And as an added bonus, Robert Pattinson appears as a wizard — and not a vampire.

This film will conclude the Athena’s first-ever Harry Potter marathon. Viewers, beware! This film contains monsters, dark magic, mild language, and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Individual film tickets are $7 each. All days passes are $20.

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Running Time: 157 min. 157 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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It's downright scary how good this movie is

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Sibs Weekend: HARRY POTTER MARATHON Part II: Books 5-8

All-day passes are $20, individual movie tickets are $7 each.

An all-day movie marathon, complete with trivia, costume contests, and other muggle fun!

ONE DAY ONLY:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4th

Schedule of Events:

12:00: Welcome to the Athena’s 2nd Official Harry Potter Marathon

12:05: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

2:40: Trivia Game Part I, Hosted by the OU HP Alliance

3:00: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

5:45: Trivia Part II

6:00: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT 1

8:25: Trivia Part III and Costume Contest Judging

9:00: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT 2

11:15: Final Trivia Winner Announced

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Dads Weekend: THE BLUES BROTHERS

Watch Trailer Director: John Landis
Writer(s): Dan Aykroyd, John Landis
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Cab Calloway

Jake and Elwood are on a mission from God. Make it your mission to see this classic on the big screen. Relive every hilarious moment and every swingin’ musical number this OU Dads Weekend at the Athena. Black suit and tie optional, sense of adventure required.

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Running Time: 133 min133 MIN
R Rated
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Parents Weekend: RAISING ARIZONA

Watch Trailer Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writer(s): Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman

We’re celebrating OU Parents weekend with a showing of RAISING ARIZONA, an early Coen Brothers favorite about a couple (Nic Cage and Holly Hunter) who want to have a child… so they take one.

A surreal, hyperactive farce in which a bumbling petty thief and the lady cop who keeps arresting him fall in love and decide to start a family. When they discover they can’t have babies, they steal one from a furniture mogul who has just sired a set of quintuplets. The joys of parenthood are soon marred, however, by the difficulties of raising an infant on the run. The none-too-bright couple must flee across the southwestern desert in order to elude the villainous biker that has been hired to retrieve the tyke.

“A wacky, happy, daring, darkly comic tale of parenting outside the law.” -Rita Kempley, Washington Post

“Starting from a point of delirious excess, the film leaps into dark and virtually uncharted territory to soar like a comet.” -Geoff Andrew, Time Out

“To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam and pristine command of screen space, the Coens have added a robust humor, a plot that keeps outwitting expectations and a…dollop of sympathy for their forlorn kidnapers.” -Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

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Running Time: 94 minutes94 MIN
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Moms Weekend: GREY GARDENS

Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Muffie Meyer
Cast: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith (Little Edie) Bouvier Beale

Grey Gardens is a fabled home located in the elite seaside Village of East Hampton, Long Island.  Of course, Grey Gardens is also a landmark documentary, a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and an HBO movie starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. Most importantly, Grey Gardens is a breathtaking and alluring portrait of Edith Beale and her daughter Edie.
In April, the spotlight will shine back on the Edies, when Grey Gardens (the original 1970s documentary, not the Drew Barrymore remake) returns to theaters. America’s favorite high-society dropouts even got a makeover for the occasion—a “striking new 2K restoration [has been] made by the Criterion Collection in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences”. The Athena Cinema will feature a special 2 day run of the cult classic documentary for OHIO Moms Weekend.

If you’ve somehow managed to never catch Albert and David Maysles’s cult classic, this is a good opportunity to take in all of its beautiful weirdness on the big screen. The doc offers a very intimate look into the lives of Edith “Big Edie” Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier Beale (and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis), as they live surrounded by the detritus of their past in a decaying East Hampton mansion, Grey Gardens.

 

Watch the trailer for the 2K Restoration of Grey Gardens HERE.

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Running Time: 100 min100 MIN
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