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SUSPIRIA: Last Day November 22nd

Watch Trailer Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer(s): David Kajganich
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz

From the director of Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, comes a nightmarish re-imagining of one of Italian cult horror’s true cinema classics.

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

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Running Time: 152 minutes152 MIN
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It’s so good, it’s scary.

Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out
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Sustainability Series: NIGHT OF SHORTS

Athena Cinema, Environmental Studies, and the Alden Library present the sixth year of the Sustainability Film Series, working in partnership with many sponsors. Our vision and goal are those of years past: to offer attendees the opportunity to acquire a deeper understanding of the current issues related to global environmental and sustainable challenges and solutions. We aim to bring together students, faculty and regional community members. The program recognizes the strength of this integration, coming together and learning from each other. Following each screening, we invite audience members to join us for a panel discussion hosted by faculty members, students, and community members. Please join us for a conversation following these beautiful, thought-provoking and timely films. All admissions free.

Person of the Forest (17 mins)

In the vanishing lowland rainforests of Borneo, research is underway to uncover and understand the unique cultural behaviors of wild orangutans before it’s too late.

Letter to Congress (3 mins)

The film was created as an homage to Wallace Stegner and the words he wrote in his famous ‘Wilderness Letter’ to Congress in 1960. In this current political climate, his words began to take on new meaning. His plea for what wilderness can do for us is now more relevant than ever.

Other shorts playing this night are TBA.

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One Night Only: THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

Watch Trailer Director: Lars Von Trier
Cast: Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman

Lars von Trier’s THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT has its North American premiere Wednesday, November 28, with a special one-night-only show of the director’s cut—the same version that was shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and prompted both a 10-minute standing ovation and more than a few disturbed walkouts.

USA in the 1970s. We follow the highly intelligent Jack (Matt Dillon) through 5 incidents and are introduced to the murders that define Jack’s development as a serial killer.

We experience the story from Jack’s point of view. He views each murder as an artwork in itself, even though his dysfunction gives him problems in the outside world. Despite the fact that the final and inevitable police intervention is drawing ever near (which both provokes and puts pressure on Jack) he is – contrary to all logic – set on taking greater and greater chances. The goal is the ultimate artwork: A collection of all his killings manifested in a House that he builds.

Along the way we experience Jack’s descriptions of his personal condition, problems and thoughts through a recurring conversation with the unknown Verge – a grotesque mixture of sophistry mixed with an almost childlike self-pity and in-depth explanations of, for Jack, dangerous and difficult maneuvers.

This special one night only screening of the director’s cut features an intro by Lars Von Trier & Matt Dillon.

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Running Time: 155 minutes155 MIN
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Dillon might have trouble putting this one at the top of his resume if he wants to do a Disney film, but there’s no question he delivers an impactful movie monster, with darting eyes and a toothy smile that makes Jack at once seem empathetic and bonkers.

Eric Kohn
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MID90s: Last Day November 22nd

Watch Trailer Director: Jonah Hill
Cast: Sunny Suljic, Lucas Hedges, Na-kel Smith

Mid90s follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 90s-era LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

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Running Time: 84 minutes84 MIN
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The first feature from writer-director Jonah Hill shows some of the best qualities of veteran actors who step behind the camera, with nuanced performances so real the characters practically fall off the screen.

Eric Kohn
IndieWire
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SADIE with Director Megan Griffiths

Watch Trailer Director: Megan Griffiths
Writer(s): Megan Griffiths
Cast: Sophia Mitri Schloss, Melanie Lynskey, John Gallagher Jr.

Join us for a special, one night only screening of Megan Griffiths’ latest feature, Sadie, with writer/director and OU alum Megan Griffiths in-house for an introduction and a Q&A after the show!

 

Sadie, written and directed by Griffiths, is the story of a girl who will stop at nothing to preserve her father’s place on the home front.

Sadie (Sophia Mitri Schloss) is the daughter of a soldier and models herself after his military example. When her mom (Melanie Lynskey) begins dating a new man (John Gallagher, Jr.), Sadie vows to drive him out by whatever means necessary. He is the enemy, and if she’s learned anything from the world she inhabits, it’s that the enemy deserves no mercy. The film also stars Tony Hale, Danielle Brooks, Tee Dennard and Keith L. Williams.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Megan Griffiths, born in Athens, Ohio, is a writer/director working in film and television. She recently directed two episodes of the Duplass Brothers’ HBO anthology series Room 104 and an episode of the Epix comedy Graves, starring Nick Nolte. Prior to this, she wrote and directed the thriller The Night Stalker, starring Lou Diamond Phillips as serial killer Richard Ramirez. Her film Lucky Them starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Johnny Depp premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and was distributed by IFC Films. Megan’s film Eden, based on the true story of a young woman captured into the world of human trafficking, was a breakout at SXSW 2012, winning the Emergent Narrative Director Award, the Audience Award for Narrative Feature as well as a Special Jury Prize for lead actress Jamie Chung. Megan’s feature The Off Hours, distributed by Film Movement, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. She is the vice president of the board of the Northwest Film Forum and is an active advocate for sustainable production.

Megan’s sixth feature film, entitled Sadie, which stars Melanie Lynskey, John Gallagher Jr, Danielle Brooks and Tony Hale, and features breakout performances from its young stars Sophia Mitri Schloss and Keith L. Williams, premiered at the 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival.

This screening event is brought to you by the Ohio University Film Division with sponsorship from Jan McMannis & Tony Buba.

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Running Time: 96 min96 MIN
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Equal parts coming-of-age story and slow-burn thriller, writer-director Megan Griffiths’ quietly absorbing and methodically disquieting drama is a genuine rarity.

Joe Leydon
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FREE SOLO: Last Day November 22nd

Watch Trailer Director: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock… the 3,000ft El Capitan in Yosemite National Park… without a rope. Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge, Honnold enters his story in the annals of human achievement. FREE SOLO is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who exceeded our current understanding of human physical and mental potential. The result is a triumph of the human spirit.

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Running Time: 97 min97 MIN
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Go figure that the year's most outrageously harrowing action movie turns out to be an arthouse doc from National Geographic.

Tom Russo
Boston Globe
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INJECTION AND OUTRAGE

Director: Winter Rey Wilson

An Athens County mother-turned-activist is the subject of this new documentary produced by Ohio University student Winter Rey Wilson about the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing. “I grew up in Athens learning about a lot of very important environmental justice issues happening in my own community,” Wilson says in a press release, “injection well waste being one that’s especially prevalent.” Wilson’s influences for this documentary include Josh Fox (Gasland) and Errol Morris (Vernon, Florida).

Injection and Outrage is a 15-minute look at one woman’s fight against injection wells in her community as she strives to protect her own land and that of her mother’s. Admission is free and will include a Q&A with Wilson after the screening.

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Running Time: 15 min15 MIN
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Journalism is about finding good stories. Often, the people with the best stories are the ones who live and work among us. Winter has found several of them for this film.

Nerissa Young
E.W. Scripps School of Journalism
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THE OLD MAN & THE GUN: Last Day Thursday, November 8th

Watch Trailer Director: David Lowery
Cast: Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Danny Glover

OLD MAN AND THE GUN is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.

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BLINDSPOTTING: Last Day Thursday, October 25th

Watch Trailer Director: Carlos Lopez Estrada
Cast: Deveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar

Collin (Daveed Diggs) must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles (Rafael Casal), work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in. Longtime friends and collaborators, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal co-wrote and star in this timely and wildly entertaining story about friendship and the intersection of race and class set against the backdrop of Oakland. Bursting with energy, style, and humor, and infused with the spirit of rap, hip hop, and spoken word, Blindspotting, boldly directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada in his feature film debut, is a provocative hometown love letter that glistens with humanity.

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Running Time: 95 minutes95 MIN
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Racism, gentrification, police brutality, start-up culture, corporate branding, social media, the justice system ... Blindspotting is eager to take them all on with style and wit, and it succeeds more often than not.

Barry Hertz
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OHIO First Scholars Present HOME ALONE

Watch Trailer Director: Chris Columbus
Writer(s): John Hughes
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern

Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he realizes they’ve left him “home alone,” he learns to fend for himself and, eventually has to protect his house against two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) who are planning to rob every house in Kevin’s suburban Chicago neighborhood.

Free admission presented by OHIO First Scholars

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Running Time: 103 min103 MIN
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Hughes creates characters that are immediately recognizable and immediately likable.

David Kehr
Chicago Tribune
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