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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.
70 MIN
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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.
97 MIN
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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.
90 MIN
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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.
86 MIN
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
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.
26 MIN
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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.
104 MIN
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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.
90 MIN
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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.
103 MIN
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Director: Brett Haley
Writer(s): Brett Haley, Marc Basch
Cast: Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter
Lee Hayden (Sam Elliott) is an aging Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former-co-star-turned-dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy (Krysten Ritter), all while searching for one final role to cement his legacy.
93 MIN
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Director: Miguel Arteta
Writer(s): Mike White
Cast: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass, Chloë SevignyDavid Warshofsky
83 MIN
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