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Director: Peter Webber
Writer(s): Vera Blasi
Cast: Matthew Fox, Colin Moy and Tommy Lee Jones
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
105 MIN
The Athena Cinema has been “home base” for the Film Festival since its founding in 1974; each spring the Athena hosts the Festival and over 250 films and videos that comprise a global mix of genres, styles and approaches to filmmaking. Now entering its 40th year, the 2013 Athens International Film and Video Festival takes place April 12 – 18th. For more information, visit: www.athensfest.org
To download a PDF of the 2013 fest program, click here.
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Director: Harmony Korine
Cast: James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine
Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning… During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug charges. Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien, an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history. Rough on the outside but with a soft spot inside, Alien wins over the hearts of the young Spring Breakers, and leads them on a Spring Break they never could have imagined.
94 MIN
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Director: Jessica Yu
Developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, the company responsible for AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, FOOD, INC. and WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN”, LAST CALL AT THE OASIS presents a powerful argument for why the global water crisis will be the central issue facing our world this century.
Illuminating the vital role water plays in our lives, exposing the defects in the current system and depicting communities already struggling with its ill-effects, the film features activist Erin Brockovich and such distinguished experts as Peter Gleick, Alex Prud’homme, Jay Famiglietti and Robert Glennon.
105 MIN
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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer(s): Scott Z. Burns
Cast: Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones
A young woman’s world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
“This neatly executed mystery is just the sort of thing Hollywood craves from Steven Soderbergh: genre entertainment as cool, clean, and impersonal as a Formica countertop.”–J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader
106 MIN
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Director: Park Chan-wook
Writer(s): Wentworth Miller
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Matthew Goode
It may be Mr. Park’s reputation that induces a state of queasy anticipation in the early scenes of “Stoker.” But it is also, unquestionably, his craft.”–A.O. Scott, New York Times
99 MIN
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Director: Amy Berg
Writer(s): Amy Berg, Billy McMillin
Cast: Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Misskelley
An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.
147 MIN
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Director: Cate Shortland
Writer(s): Cate Shortland and Robin Mukherjee
Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina, Nele Trebs
Awards: Official Selection of Cannes
Language: German, English
Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents’ actions. Led by the eldest sibling, 14-year old Lore (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl), they set out on a harrowing journey across a devastated country to reach their grandmother in the north. After meeting the charismatic Thomas, a mysterious young refugee, Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire as she must learn to trust the one person she has always been taught to hate in order to survive. Lush cinematography and an evocative, haunting mood infuse this unconventional take on the Holocaust legacy with unforgettable impact.
“For both audiences who admire it and the protagonist who lives it, the intense, emotional “Lore” is a picture from life’s other side.”–Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
109 MIN
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Director: David France
Writer(s): David France, Todd Woody Richman and Tyler H. Walk
Cast: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long
Awards: Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winner, Academy Award Nominee for Best Feature Documentary
Ohio University’s School of Film presents a one-night only screening of the award winning documentary, “How To Survive A Plague” on Monday, April 8th at 7:00. Editor of the documentary, Tyler H. Walk will be present at the screening and there will be a Q&A following the screening.
Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young people, many of them HIV-positive young men, broke the mold as radical warriors taking on Washington and the medical establishment.
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of two coalitions—ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group)—whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With unfettered access to a treasure trove of never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and ’90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
120 MIN
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Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Audrey Tautou
Awards: Nominated for 5 Oscars
Language: In French with English Subtitles
One woman decides to change the world by changing the lives of the people she knows in this charming and romantic comic fantasy from director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amelie (Audrey Tautou) is a young woman who had a decidedly unusual childhood; misdiagnosed with an unusual heart condition, Amelie didn’t attend school with other children, but spent most of her time in her room, where she developed a keen imagination and an active fantasy life. Her mother Amandine (Lorella Cravotta) died in a freak accident when Amelie was eight, and her father Raphael (Rufus) had limited contact with her, since his presence seemed to throw her heart into high gear. Despite all this, Amelie has grown into a healthy and beautiful young woman who works in a cafe and has a whimsical, romantic nature. When Princess Diana dies in a car wreck in the summer of 1997, Amelie is reminded that life can be fleeting and she decides it’s time for her to intervene in the lives of those around her, hoping to bring a bit of happiness to her neighbors and the regulars at the cafe.
122 MIN
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