Forgotten Man – George La Cava: Stage Door

Watch Trailer Director: George La Cava
Writer(s): Morrie Ryskind (screenplay), Anthony Veiller (screenplay)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
Language: English

A boardinghouse full of aspiring actresses and their ambitions, dreams and disappointments.

“The entire cast is stellar, including little knowns Lucille Ball — “my big break”– Eve Arden, “real discovery” Andrea Leeds, Jack Carson, and a 14-year-old Ann Miller who lied about her age.” – Donald J. Levit, ReelTalk Movie Reviews

“La Cava keeps it always fascinating, the pace lively, the dialogue sharp and the ensemble cast all chip in with first-class performances.” – Dennis Schwartz, Ozus’ World Movie Reviews

“Second only to the incomparable All About Eve as the best movie ever made about the theater.” – Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

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Running Time: 92 minutes92 MIN
Rating: Approved

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Learning to Drive: Leaving the Athena Thursday, October 1st

Watch Trailer Director: Isabel Coixet
Writer(s): Sarah Kernochan
Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer

Isabel Coixet’s slice-of-life comedy/drama Learning to Drive stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a middle-ages book critic who is shattered when her husband Ted (Jake Weber) leaves her. In order to visit her daughter (Grace Gummer), who lives upstate, Wendy begins taking driving lessons from Darwan (Ben Kingsley) an American citizen originally from India who makes a living as a cabbie and giving driving lessons. The two strike-up a friendship that helps her learn to take control of her life, and him adjust to his new life after an arranged marriage. Learning to Drive screened at the 2014 (Toronto International Film Festival.

“Learning to Drive is precisely the sort of adult-themed, intelligent and heartfelt film it wants to be, with Clarkson and Kingsley wonderfully on point.” -Tom Long, Detroit News

“Learning to Drive is a story of companionship, loneliness, resilience. It’s a small, artfully crafted thing, but it resonates in big ways.” -Steven Rea, Philidelphia Inquirer

“It’s a beautifully acted tale of friendship, and about how sometimes, you just need to move forward – in a car, or otherwise.” -Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

*Closed Caption devices are available for this film.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
R Rated

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SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE: Last Day Thursday, October 22nd

Watch Trailer Director: Leslye Headland
Writer(s): Leslye Headland
Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Jordan Carlos

Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie star as two romantic failures whose years of serial infidelity and self-sabotage have led them to swear that their relationship will remain strictly platonic. But can love still bloom while you’re sleeping with other people? Writer/director Leslye Headland’s (Bachelorette) sexy romantic comedy co-stars Amanda Peet, Adam Scott, and Natasha Lyonne.

“As we watch changes of conscience emerge and moral comeuppance arrive, this freewheeling alternative to the standard date movie emerges as one of the year’s best surprises.” -Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Sudeikis is terrific. And Brie can break you up or just plain break your heart.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“Rom-coms died because they weren’t very rom and didn’t have enough com. But Sleeping With Other People, which is both hilarious and emotionally alive, is as delightful as a first date that crackles with possibility.” -Kyle Smith, New York Post

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Running Time: 101 minutes101 MIN
R Rated

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MEET THE PATELS: Last Day Thursday, October 22nd

Watch Trailer Director: Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel
Writer(s): Matthew Hamachek, Billy McMillin, Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel
Cast: Champa V. Patel, Geeta Patel, Ravi Patel

A laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams…and his parents. This hilarious and heartwarming film reveals how love is a family affair.

“Often riotously funny.” -Andrew Barker, Variety

“It’s a delight of a film, but it also examines problems of assimilation, culture clash, modern romance and the value (or prison) of tradition. Which is quite a bit of stuff for a movie that’s just plain fun to watch.” -Tom Long, Detroit News

“It’s impossible not to care about the people on screen.” -Jen Chaney, Washington Post

“It turned one man’s culturally specific journey into a lively and engaging universal story made with an unmistakable sense of fun.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

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Running Time: 88 minutes88 MIN
PG Rated

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Sustainability Series: BROKEN LANDSCAPES & SLUDGE

Watch Trailer Director: Michael T. Miller
Language: Hindi

BROKEN LANDSCAPES explores the effects of coal mining to communities and workers in India exposing migrant labor exploitation, water and environmental impacts.

SLUDGE is a 2005 documentary film by Appalshop filmmaker Robert Salyer chronicling the Martin County Sludge Spill that was an accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000 when a coal sludge impoundment in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine below, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge down two tributaries of theTug Fork River.

One of the filmmakers of Broken Landscapes, Sean Peoples, is to lead a discussion with musician Jack Wright with faculty and students following the showings of Broken Landscapes and Sludge.

*Free admission provided by Environmental Studies Program at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs, Alden Library, Athena Cinema, the College of Arts & Sciences Sustainability Studies and Food Studies Themes, University College and Office of Sustainability at Ohio University. *

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Running Time: Broken Landscape (18 minutes); Sludge (40 minutes)1840 MIN
Not Rated
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100 YEARS OF ATHENA SERIES

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Spike-Lee.-Do-the-Right-Thing-3DO THE RIGHT THING | Oct. 24

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Directed by Spike Lee.

 

 

2005_brokeback_mountain_004BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN | Nov. 21

The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years. Directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger.

 

 

artist3THE ARTIST | Dec. 26

A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions. Starring  Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo and John Goodman.

 

 

 

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KNOWING THE FUTURE SERIES

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FANTASTIC VOYAGE | Oct. 27fantastic voyage

A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

contactCONTACT | Nov. 10

Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine.

 

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The Apu Trilogy: APUR SANSAR (THE WORLD OF APU)

Watch Trailer Director: Satyajit Ray
Writer(s): Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (original story "Aparajito"), Satyajit Ray (screenplay) (as script)
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty
Language: Bengali

This final installment in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, follows Apu’s life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer as he lives through poverty, and the unforeseen turn of events.

“Director Satyajit Ray, with greater technical means, makes the truth of his relationships and the revelation of India the main trumps of the film. Wit, tenderness and intrinsic human revelations illuminate this unusual film.” – Variety Staff, Variety

“An impressive capstone is put not only upon a touching human drama but also upon the development of a genuine artist’s skill.” – Bosley Crowther, New York Times

“What we sense all through The Apu Trilogy is a different kind of life than we are used to.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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Running Time: 105 minutes105 MIN
Not Rated

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Food on Film: SPIRITED AWAY

Watch Trailer Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer(s): Hayao Miyazaki
Cast: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino
Language: Japanese

During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

“Turns everything we know about the contemporary world on its head, and substitutes it with one in which spirits, monsters, magicians and animals mix it up in a carnival of energy, good humor and freewheeling illusion.” – Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

“Does full honor to Miyazaki’s teeming and often unsettling landscape, and to the conflicted complexity of his characters: Not a single frame was cut, and the voice casting and performances are uniformly excellent.” – David Chute, L.A. Weekly

“It is plainly, though not simply, a masterpiece from an acknowledged master of contemporary animation, and a wonderfully welcoming work of art that’s as funny and entertaining as it is brilliant, beautiful and deep.” – Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal

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Running Time: 125 minutes125 MIN
PG Rated
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Food on Film: JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI

Watch Trailer Director: David Gelb
Cast: Jiro Ono, Masuhiro Yamamoto, Daisuke Nakazama
Language: Japanese

In the basement of a Tokyo office building, 85 year old sushi master Jiro Ono works tirelessly in his world renowned restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro. As his son Yoshikazu faces the pressures of stepping into his father’s shoes and taking over the legendary restaurant, Jiro relentlessly pursues his lifelong quest to create the perfect piece of sushi.

“David Gelb’s thoughtful and wonderful documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, explores the dedication of this humble, bespectacled man, and the Zen-like focus he has for his work – or, as many would claim, for his art.” – Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
“One of the film’s best moments of deliciousness comes with the revelation that Yoshikazu, rather than his father, made the sushi that won the Michelin inspectors over; so much for working humbly in the old man’s shadow.” – Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal
“For all the trite sayings that come to mind, the story feels exceptional thanks to the subject, a self-made perfectionist still pursuing culinary transcendence.” – Stephanie Merry, Washington Post

 

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Running Time: 81 minutes81 MIN
PG Rated
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