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PATERSON

Watch Trailer Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer(s): Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani

Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey – they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer. He goes home to his wife, Laura. By contrast, Laura’s world is ever changing. New dreams come to her almost daily, each a different and inspired project. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her newfound ambitions; she champions his secret gift for poetry. The history and energy of the City of Paterson is a felt presence in the film and its simple structure unfolds over the course of a single week. The quiet triumphs and defeats of daily life are observed, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

“Poems slip across the screen like water in Paterson, Jim Jarmusch’s wonderful new dispatch from Jarmusch-land.” — Manohla Dargis, NY Times

“Adam Driver gives his loveliest, most lyrical performance in this Jim Jarmusch film-one of the year’s best-that takes its good, sweet time working its way into your mind and heart.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Running Time: 118 minutes118 MIN
R Rated

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HUNTER GATHERER

Watch Trailer Director: Joshua Locy
Writer(s): Joshua Locy
Cast: Andre Royo, Jeannetta Arnette, Kellee Stewart

Ashley Douglas thinks everything should fall into place when he’s released after three years in prison. His friends should come to his welcome home party. (They don’t.) His girlfriend, Linda, should greet him with open arms and open legs. (She doesn’t.) So Ashley, a forty-something African-American, restarts his life with next to nothing: no friends, no lovers, no connections. He has is a bedroom in his mom’s house, a box of treasures he buried in his back yard, and a nostalgic and deeply ingrained need to be with Linda-his one, true love.  That is, until he meets a new friend, Jeremy, and things start to turn around.

“A sweet, shambling poem to the tenacity of hope and the sustaining power of friendship.” — Jeannette Catsoulis,  NY Times

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN

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Spring Sustainability Series: JUMBO WILD & MOVING THE GIANTS

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Jumbo Wild

Director: Nick Waggoner

For decades, First Nations, conservationists, backcountry skiers and snowboarders have fought a proposed large-scale ski resort deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. After 24 years of opposition, what more will it take to keep Jumbo wild for good? This film explores the value of protected wilderness and the ever-encroaching battle against development at all costs. Breathtaking beauty, filmed in British Columbia.

 

 

Moving the Giants

Director: Michael Ramsey

Moving the Giants, A Urgent Plan to Save the Planet tells the story of arborist David Milarch, as he helps California coast redwoods migrate northward to survive climate changes that threaten their current habitat. His is one path to promote “treequestration,” a mass movement to use one of nature’s most prolific methods to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce the amount of future climate change.

This event is sponsored by the Athena Cinema and Alden Library.

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Spring Sustainability Series: ICE AND SKY

Watch Trailer Director: Luc Jacquet

Drilling down the Antarctic icefields in the 1950’s, the former brought about a sweeping change in our vision of the world as they discovered the origins of climate change. Today, the latter offer new means for transforming man’s imprint on its environment.

With Ice & Sky, Wild-Touch and Luc Jacquet travel back to the genesis of collective intelligence and forge a bond between the past and present stakeholders and the general public. Stemming from such a promise, a dynamic will encourage each one of us to join forces and respond to climate change, and together rewrite the rules of our future society.

This event is sponsored by the Athena Cinema and Alden Library.

 

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Running Time: 89 minutes89 MIN
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Sustainability Series: SONIC SEA, PANGOLIN, & MONARCH: THE MILKWEED MISSION

Sonic Sea

Directors: Michelle Dougherty, Daniel Hinerfeld

Sonic Sea is a 60-minute documentary about the devastating impact of industrial and military ocean noise on whales and other marine life. The film begins with a mystery: the unexplained stranding and mass mortality of several species of whales in the Bahamas in March 2000. As the mystery unfolds, the film explores the critical role of sound in the sea, and the sudden, dramatic changes human activity is inflicting on the ocean’s delicate acoustic habitat — changes that threaten the ability of whales and other marine animals to prosper, to function, and ultimately, to survive

Pangolin

Director: Katie Schuler

Journey of a single pangolin, from the moment it is taken from the wild to its final destination in China. Filmed on location across three countries with the help of reformed poachers and wildlife enforcement officers, the film acts as a surrogate for an estimated hundred thousand pangolins that are poached and smuggled annually in SE Asia and Africa. Pangolin offers audiences the opportunity to experience the life, death and afterlife of one of the most illeally trafficked and endangered mammals on the planet.

Monarchs: The Milkweed Mission

Director: Turk Pipkin

The latest conservation film from director Turk Pipkin and The Nobelity Project, The Milkweed Mission tracks the amazing year-long path of North America’s main Monarch butterfly migration, documenting threats from logging and community conservation challenges in the winter reserves in Michoacán, Mexico to loss of essential pollinators and milkweeds due to droughts, climate change and chemical agriculture across the U.S. and into the northern migration range in Canada.

 

 

This event is sponsored by the Athena Cinema and Alden Library.

Showtimes: ONE NIGHT ONLY: Wednesday, February 22nd at 7:00PM. Free admission!

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Spring Sustainability Series: LANDFILL HARMONIC

Watch Trailer Director: Graham Townsley, Brad Allgood

Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan musical group that plays instruments made entirely out of garbage. When their story goes viral, the orchestra is catapulted into the global spotlight. Under the guidance of idealistic music director Favio Chavez, the orchestra must navigate a strange new world of arenas and sold-out concerts. However, when a natural disaster strikes their community, Favio must find a way to keep the orchestra intact and provide a source of hope for their town. The film is a testimony to the transformative power of music and the resilience of the human spirit.

“An inspiring tale — if it were fiction you’d dismiss it as unbelievable ” – Ken Jaworowski, The New York Times

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Running Time: 95 minutes95 MIN
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Spring Sustainability Series: CATCHING THE SUN

Watch Trailer Director: Shalini Kantayya

Through the stories of workers and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China, the film captures the global race to lead the clean energy future. Over the course of a solar jobs training program, the film follows the hope and heartbreak of unemployed American workers seeking jobs in the solar industry. With countries like China investing in innovative technologies and capitalizing on this trillion-dollar opportunity, the film tells the story of the global energy transition from the perspective of workers and entrepreneurs building solutions to income inequality and climate change with their own hands. Their successes and failures speak to one of the biggest questions of our time: will the U.S. actually be able to build a clean energy economy?

“A must-see film. An eye-opening look at workers and entrepreneurs on the forefront of the clean energy movement that will transform, and enliven the way you see the future. What is clear is the wonderful opportunity the transition to clean energy represents.”  – Actor, Mark Ruffalo

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Running Time: 75 minutes75 MIN
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Spring Sustainability Series: THE HAND THAT FEEDS

Watch Trailer Director: Rachel Lears, Robin Blotnick

At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been interested in politics, but in January 2012, he convinces a small group of his co-workers to fight back.

Risking deportation and the loss of their livelihood, the workers team up with a diverse crew of innovative young organizers and take the unusual step of forming their own independent union, launching themselves on a journey that will test the limits of their resolve. In one roller-coaster year, they must overcome a shocking betrayal and a two-month lockout. Lawyers will battle in back rooms, Occupy Wall Street protesters will take over the restaurant, and a picket line will divide the neighborhood. If they can win a contract, it will set a historic precedent for low-wage workers across the country. But whatever happens, Mahoma and his coworkers will never be exploited again.

“A crowd pleaser… a captivating David & Goliath story.” Anthony Kaufman, Indiewire

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Running Time: 87 minutes87 MIN
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WONDERSTRUCK

Watch Trailer Director: Todd Haynes
Writer(s): Brian Selznick
Cast: Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams, Oakes Fegley

Based on Brian Selznick’s critically acclaimed novel Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry.

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Running Time: 117 minutes117 MIN
PG Rated
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Alive with the magic of pictures and the mysteries of silence, this is an uncommonly grownup film about children, communication, connection and memory.

David Rooney
Hollywood Reporter
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Holiday Film Series: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Watch Trailer Director: Henry Selick , Tim Burton
Writer(s): Tim Burton , Caroline Thompson , Michael McDowell
Cast: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara

Starting November 26th and running through December 17th, Ohio University’s Athena Cinema will be showing afternoon screenings of popular holiday family films every Saturday! The price of admission will be a minimum donation of one canned or non perishable food good per ticket. The food items will be donated to Athens city food pantries and other hunger relief programs.

Despite having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning. Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides to make the Yuletide his own.

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Running Time: 76 minutes76 MIN
PG Rated

Burton, the man who gave us Batman, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, is incapable of a conventional idea. His take on the holiday fairy tale is delightfully off the wall.

Desmond Ryan
Philadelphia Inquirer
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