The Athena Cinema

Nuit Blanche: Inocente – ONE NIGHT ONLY

Watch Trailer Director: Sean Fine and Andrea Nix

A personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist’s determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past. ‘Inocente’ is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in her story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.

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40 MIN

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Nuit Blanche: Finding Fela! – ONE NIGHT ONLY

Watch Trailer Director: Alex Gibney
Cast: Fela Kuti, Yeni Kuti, and Femi Kuti

Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Kuti’s life (1938 – 1997), his music, and his social and political importance. This in-depth look at the man who created Afrobeat (a fusion of Jazz, traditional West African rhythms, Funk, Highlife, and psychedelic rock) brings audiences close to Mr. Kuti’s fight against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. With his audacious music and a great deal of courage, Fela Kuti helped bring a change towards democracy in Nigeria, promoted Pan Africanist politics to the entire world and became an inspiration in the global fight for the rights of all oppressed people.

“There’s nothing like seeing Fela himself – blowing his sax, expressing his unbridled sexuality and living a life like no other.” – Jim Farber, New York Daily News

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119 MIN

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Nuit Blanche: Bill T. Jones A Good Man – ONE NIGHT ONLY

Watch Trailer Director: Gordon Quinn and Bob Hercules
Cast: Nana Amoah, Bill T. Jones, and Lindsay Jones

A Good Man follows acclaimed director/choreographer Bill T. Jones (Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Still/Here, FELA!) as he and his company create their most ambitious work, an original dance-theater piece in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s Bicentennial.

Through two tumultuous years, we witness raw moments of frustration as Jones struggles to communicate his vision to his dancers and collaborators, as well as moments of great exhilaration when movement transcends the limitation of words. Jones and his company come face to face with America’s unresolved contradictions about race, equality and the legacy of our 16th President. Initially an indictment of The Great Emancipator, the work evolves into a triumph of hope for our struggling democracy, with Jones revealing that Lincoln was “the only white man I was allowed to love unconditionally.”

Premiering on the heels of Jones’s Tony Award for FELA! and 2010 Kennedy Center Honor, A Good Man is a window into the creative process and, indeed, the creative crisis of one of our nation’s most enduring, provocative artists as he explores what it means to be a good man, to be a free man, to be a citizen.

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86 MIN

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The Zero Theorem: Last Day Thursday, October 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Terry Gilliam
Writer(s): Pat Rushin
Cast: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Lucas Hedges, Tilda Swinton, Matt Damon, and Ben Whishaw

Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)’s madcap science fiction epic The Zero Theorem stars two- time Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an eccentric and reclusive computer genius plagued with existential angst. Living in isolation in a burnt-out church, Qohen is obsessively working on a mysterious project personally delegated to him by Management (Matt Damon) aimed at discovering the meaning of life – or the complete lack of one – once and for all. Increasingly disturbed by unwanted visits from people he doesn’t fully trust, including flirtatious Bainsley (Mélanie Thierry), Management’s wunderkind son Bob (Lucas Hedges), his unpredictable colleague Job (David Thewlis), and would-be digital therapist Dr. Shrink-Rom (Tilda Swinton), it’s only when he experiences the power of love and desire that he’s able to understand his own reason for being.

“Incredibly powerful…The Zero Theorem takes huge philosophical ideas and turns them into a grand sci-fi adventure.” – Todd Gilchrist, The Wrap

“[A] visually splendid nightmare of totalitarian glitz… The Zero Theorem is a spectacle that demands to be cherished.” – Mary Corliss, TIME

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106 MIN

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The Skeleton Twins: Last Day Thursday, October 23rd

Watch Trailer Director: Craig Johnson
Writer(s): Mark Heyman and Craig Johnson
Cast: Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, and Ty Burrell
Awards: Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance Film Festival

After ten years of estrangement, twins Maggie and Milo (“Saturday Night Live’s” Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader) coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their lives went so wrong. As the twins’ reunion reinvigorates them both, they realize that the key to fixing their lives just may lie in fixing their relationship with each other.

“Hader and Wiig give rich, nuanced performances that reflect the chemistry the two actors honed together from their years on Saturday Night Live.” -Thomas Lee, San Francisco Chronicle

“In the same way that “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” redefined Jim Carrey, this affecting and poignant drama-with-laughs shatters your expectations of Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.” – Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Warm, funny, heartfelt and even uplifting, the film is led by revelatory performances from Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, both of them exploring rewarding new dramatic range without neglecting their mad comedic skills.” – David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

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93 MIN

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Science on Screen®: THERE WILL BE BLOOD

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Mitigating Oil Pipeline Corrosion and Erosion

Dr. Srdjan Nesic’s talk will focus on his research related to mitigating oil pipeline corrosion and erosion. He will also share the untold story of his involvement with the largest trial in world history, the case surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

About the film

When Daniel Plainview gets a mysterious tip-off that there’s a little town out West where an ocean of oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads there with his son, H.W., to take their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town, where the main excitement centers around the HOLY ROLLER church of charismatic preacher Eli Sunday, Plainview and H.W. make their lucky strike. But even as the well raises all of their fortunes, nothing will remain the same as conflicts escalate and every human value–love, hope, community, belief, ambition, and even the bond between father and son–is imperiled by corruption, deception, and the flow of oil.

About the speaker

Srdjan Nesic, a Russ Professor, has also been director of the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Flow Technology since 2002. Having taught courses related to thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and corrosion, he also been principal adviser for more than 50 master’s and doctoral students.

Nesic’s research lies at the intersection of transport phenomena and electrochemistry, with applications in corrosion and erosion corrosion. Responsible for more than $30 million in external research funding, almost all from private industry, he is author of more than 10 articles in books including the best known corrosion handbooks such as Uhlig’s Corrosion Handbook and Shriers’s Corrosion, covering acid gas corrosion and erosion corrosion, more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers, 200 conference papers, and 50 scientific reports in the field of corrosion.

Dr. Nesic also has extensively consulted on corrosion issues for the oil and gas industry, from design to operations to expert witness testimony including the Deepwater Horizon Spill in 2010.

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Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

Free admission to this event is provided by Arts for OHIO.

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158 MIN

A work of stunning intelligence and dramatic sweep, a portrait of a young nation struggling to find itself, torn between religious and business values.

Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

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When Night Comes – One Night Only Thursday, October 9th

Watch Trailer Director: Glenn Martin
Writer(s): Glenn Martin
Cast: Jason Miller, Alex Couladis and Mike Stene

Inspired by true events, a classic horror returns. Lark (Jason Miller) embraces his dark heritage and resumes the campaign of terror his grandfather started.

Driven by his wife’s infidelity, Lark unleashes his rage on the cheating and unfaithful. As the body count rises, Detectives Hugh Evans (Alex Couladis) and Frank Sweeney (Mike Stene) relentlessly pursue Lark in effort to end his bloody path of violence.

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Dune: Let’s Do Lynch

Watch Trailer Director: David Lynch
Writer(s): Frank Herbert, David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Francesca Annis

Set in a distant future where life in the universe and space travel is dependent upon a spice found only on the planet Dune, this film tracks the rise of young Paul Atreides, son of noble Duke Leto, from the time of his father’s betrayal and murder by the evil Baron Harkonnen, to his discovery of the great secret behind the planet Dune and his own destiny, which is to free the planet and its denizens of the cruel rule of the Emperor.

The Athena Cinema presents “Let’s Do Lynch”, eight weeks of feature films by David Lynch. All shows start at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $6.50.

9/7 &8: Elephant Man
9/14 & 15: Dune
9/21 & 22: Blue Velvet
9/28 & 29: Wild At Heart
10/5&6: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
10/12 & 13: Lost Highway
10/19 & 20: Mulholland Drive
10/26 & 27: Eraserhead

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137 MIN

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Elephant Man: Let’s Do Lynch

Watch Trailer Director: David Lynch
Writer(s): Eric Bergren, Christopher DeVore, David Lynch
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft

John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as “The Elephant Man”. Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made public when one Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) rescues Merrick from a carnival and brings him to a hospital for analysis. Alas, even after being recognized as a man of advanced intellect, Merrick is still treated like a freak; no matter his station in life, he will forever be a prisoner of his own malformed body.

The Athena Cinema presents “Let’s Do Lynch”, eight weeks of feature films by David Lynch. All shows start at 7:00 p.m. Admission is $6.50.

9/7 &8: Elephant Man
9/14 & 15: Dune
9/21 & 22: Blue Velvet
9/28 & 29: Wild At Heart
10/5&6: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
10/12 & 13: Lost Highway
10/19 & 20: Mulholland Drive
10/26 & 27: Eraserhead

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124 MIN

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Southeast Asian Short Films: KLEX’s Tropical Seasonings

Director: Andrew Stiff (UK/Malaysia), AU Sow-Yee (Malaysia), Azharr Rudin (Malaysia), Debora Bernagozzi (USA), Jason Bernagozzi (USA), Koji Tambata (Japan/Thailand), KOK Siew-Wai (Malaysia), LIM Chee-Yong (Malaysia), Maulana M Pasha (Indonesia), Taiki Sakpisit (Thailand), WONG Eng-Leong (Malaysia), Wuttin Chansataboot (Thailand)

This fall, two collections of short films from Southeast Asia will be shown in Athena Cinema.

Tropical Seasonings (2014) is a experimental film collection. It is curated by the director of Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film Festival (KLEX), Siew-wai Kok. This program features twelve videos from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, the UK and the USA. Six of them come from Malaysia. All of them, including the ones from UK and USA, are about the experiences in Southeast Asia. All of them have been shown in the previous KLEX events. The program started its US tour in Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY.

More information please go to: http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/5455.html

This event is sponsored by: Arts for Ohio, Center of Southeast Asian Studies, CoFA- Film Division, Shao You-Bao Overseas Chinese Center