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The Met: Live in HD: Bellini’s I PURITANI

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. This January, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.

The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:50 p.m.

Admission $20 (Senior $18, Children $8)

OHIO Students Free with valid ID*

*Thanks to support from Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.

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MLK Week Screening: AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND with Dr. Russell Morrow

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Join us Monday, January 19th at 1:00 p.m. to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Week with a special event screening of a fantastic documentary that tells the story of one of the first interracial civil rights protests in American history!

Special thanks to RECA (Racial Equity Coalition, Athens) and NAACP Athens County for helping to make this screening possible!

Free Admission – Tickets are required

This event will include a post-film discussion with the audience facilitated by Intercultural Strategist and Educator Dr. Russell Morrow

About the film

One summer in 1960, five students from nearby HBCU Howard University in Washington, D.C. who were members of the Nonviolent Action Group opted to climb aboard the horses on the carousel at the Glen Echo Amusement Park — a carousel designated as “Whites Only” — in order to initiate a sit-in protest and gain recognition for the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Soon thereafter, folks from the surrounding communities, including many from nearby Jewish neighborhoods, joined the students and formed a picket line in support of their cause. The courageous act prompted counter-protests from the American Nazi Party and other proponents of segregation, in addition to gaining national attention in the media at the time. This little-known and now-almost-forgotten event, which preceded the famous March on Washington by two years, resulted in a reversal of Glen Echo Park’s policy of segregation and ultimately helped set off a ripple effect through the rest of America’s Civil Rights Movement that has since impacted the lives of countless others.

Using archival footage and voice-over narration from notable Hollywood actors like Jeffery Wright, Mandy Patinkin, and Dominique Thorne, Ain’t No Back to A Merry-Go-Round brilliantly tells the story of some of the individuals who played a role in the protests and how their actions demonstrate that the power to make positive social change is immensely stronger when we all work together.

 

This event is made possible by support from the following sponsors: RECA (Racial Equity Coalition Athens) and NAACP Athens County

Click here or scan the QR code below to make a donation to the Racial Equity Fund

 

 

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Enter the Kingdom: CARRIE

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Join us Tuesday, January 20th at 7:00 p.m. as we kick off our exciting new series Enter the Kingdom: A Retrospective of Stephen King Film Adaptations!

Admission $8

About the film

Carrie White has a complicated life. At sixteen, not only is she in the depths of adolescence, but she’s also the daughter of an abusive, religiously fanatic mother and is often bullied at school because of her naïveté. When she learns that she has the gift of telekinesis – the ability to control objects with one’s mind – she decides to get even with everyone who has tormented her.

Based on Stephen King’s first novel, this unforgettable film from director Brian De Palma was originally released in 1976, so this year will mark the 50th anniversary of this classic horror film! It was also the first film adaptation of King’s work (which now amounts to more than 100 movies and TV shows), so what better way to kick-off our Enter the Kingdom series..?!

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THE TASTE OF THINGS: Last Day Wednesday, March 20th

Watch Trailer Director: Trần Anh Hùng
Writer(s): Trần Anh Hùng
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel
Awards: Cannes Film Festival - Best Director, Palm d'Or (nominated)

About the Film

Eugénie and Dodin have paired their skills in the kitchen for 20 years. During that time, working closely together and relying on each another, they’ve not only prepared meals of exquisite quality but have also kindled feelings for one another. Eugénie enjoys her freedom, however, and has done her best to keep Dodin at arms length…that is, until Dodin finally cooks her a meal that she cannot resist.

Academy Award-winning actress Juliette Binoche stars opposite Benoît Magimel (Binoche’s one-time partner in real life) in this deliciously romantic period-piece set in France in the 1880’s. THE TASTE OF THINGS is a love letter to food and to love — the kind of film that is a feast for the eyes and mouth-wateringly charming.

 

 

 

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The Met: Live in HD: Mason Bates’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY

In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections designed by 59 Studio. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere-production, with baritone Andrzej Filończyk as the artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen.

The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:00 p.m.

Admission $20 (Senior $18, Children $8)

OHIO Students Free with valid ID*

*Thanks to support from Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.

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OU School of Film: Winter Showcase

Join us Saturday, January 24th at 7:00 p.m. for a special event showcasing the work of students in the OHIO College of Fine Arts School of Film!

Admission is FREE and open to the Public – Tickets are required

The Ohio University School of Film is proud to present the annual Winter Showcase, featuring 20 original short films created by undergraduate and graduate film students.

The showcase highlights the work of student filmmakers in various stages of their academic careers as they refine their craft and expand their approaches to visual storytelling. Through experimentation with form, structure, and voice, students create films that are bold, imaginative, and emotionally resonant. These works reflect the development of their emerging artistic identities and a commitment to creative and personal expression.

The program features a mixture of narrative and experimental films that explore themes of friendship, love, loss, nostalgia, transition, beauty standards, and creative burnout. Many projects were created in collaboration with students from the School of Theater and members of the Ohio University and Athens communities.

Films and Filmmakers

Our Hero, Cadet – Directed by Cam Smith. Narrative. Runtime: 9 min

Synopsis: Little Miss Head-in-the-Clouds

 

 

 

Open Mic – Directed by Caden Layne. Experimental. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: This is about you.

 

 

 

Styrophome – Directed by Emmy Williams. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: An audio-visual experience tied to a feeling of opening up and harsh recovery.

 

 

 

Eva – Directed by Megan Young. Animation. Runtime: 1 min

Synopsis: My first mixed media animation project, portraying my dear friend Eva, surrounded by nature and colors.

 

 

 

Poser – Directed by Jack Nyerges. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: Understanding the end of a friendship while slipping into an unceasing cycle of nostalgia.

 

 

 

Élan Vital – Directed by Andrew Bowman. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: An exploration of light, movement and body.

 

 

 

Canon In D – Directed by Robin Oldaker. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: Reflection, growth, transition.

 

 

 

The Fly of Theseus – Directed by Zinn Rogers. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: If a fly eats a plant, does the fly become the plant..?

 

 

 

My Thumbs Are Not Green And Neither Are My Plants – Directed by Sydney Kalafut. Animation. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: Mourning the loss of the only plant I have ever loved.

 

 

Emotional Female – Directed by Becca Harlan. Experimental. Runtime: 2 min

Synopsis: An experimental portrait of how women express emotions and how societal expectations of beauty, femininity, aging, and performance shape the perception of these emotions across generations.

 

 

Medicated – Directed by Win Yoder. Experimental. Runtime: 2 min

Synopsis: A short movement-based expression about the battle of discovering who you are and the role of medication in that journey.

 

 

My Body Is A Constellation – Directed by Sophia Alleman. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: A cosmic exploration of self.

 

 

 

My Side of The Creek – Directed by Emily Kinney. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: The impressions of grief.

 

 

 

The Tape I Found in The Woods – Directed by Julian Fahl Matlack. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: What’s up with all that abandoned infrastructure in Washington County..?

 

 

 

Deperson – Directed by Colin Wheeler. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: A guy opens up to his significant other while an unseen cameraman directs how his emotions should look.

 

 

 

DeerHunter Delta – Directed by Damario Thompson. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: After being called crazy by everyone, a passionate man who hates deer posts a video online to try to make a movement against them.

 

 

Lipstick Manifesto – Stacy Pindell. Narrative. Runtime: 13 min

Synopsis: What do you think of lipstick..?

 

 

 

Burnout – Directed by Wes Donnelly. Experimental. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: A representation of the creative exhaustion I experienced this semester.

 

 

 

Uncle Jimmy – Directed by Alaa Al-Shameri. Narrative. Runtime: 24 min

Synopsis: In the shadow of a looming pandemic, a shared home becomes a closed world, where fear redraws boundaries, reality blurs, and two lives drift apart, revealing how easily protection can become punishment.

 

 

Reverie – Directed by M.J. Golzari. Narrative. Runtime: 25 min

Synopsis: In a remote cabin, a dying woodcarver confronts his grief as reflections, memories, and longing slowly collapse into one irreversible presence.

 

 

 

This event is made possible through the support of the Ohio University School of Film, the Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts, and Arts for Ohio

 

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Enter the Kingdom: THE SHINING

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Join us Tuesday, January 27th at 7:00 p.m. for a Stephen King adaptation that really “shines”!

Admission $8

About the film

Jack Torrance is a writer who’s looking to kill two birds with one stone: writing a novel and finding a temporary job that both pays well enough to provide for his family and gives him enough free time to ply his literary craft. He seemingly finds the perfect fit when he is hired to be the winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel. What initially appears to be a dream job for Torrance soon becomes a descent into madness as the dark history of the hotel reveals itself during one of the worst winters in recent memory.

While the film adaptation differs in some significant ways from the Stephen King story on which it is based, The Shining bears the mark of director Stanley Kubrick’s perfectionist approach to filmmaking and is replete with some of the most unforgettable imagery and acting performances in all of cinema history!

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From the Hills and Hollers: O PIONEER with Dr. Tiffany Arnold

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Join us Thursday, January 29th for a “pioneering” award-winning documentary as our Appalachian Stories Film Series continues!

This event will include a pre-show presentation from Dr. Tiffany Arnold

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

About the film

The word “pioneer” is well-known to anyone who has grown up in America – it conjures up visions of hearty, self-reliant travelers who braved the wilderness in covered wagons to carve out a homestead and put down roots where none had gone before. The term has, thus, come to signify a person who finds a new way to do or understand a particular thing. That being said, we often think of “pioneers” as special people with special abilities or insights that allow them to change society on a grand scale. The documentary O Pioneer, however, tries to push against this notion by featuring three humble West Virginians who have discovered the pioneering spirit within themselves – a blacksmith, a seamstress, and a hospital chaplain – each uncovering the courage and determination to overcome the challenges they face in their daily lives. This poetic and moving tale of human resolve will make you examine your own life and determine whether you have what it takes to blaze a new trail to a better tomorrow for yourself.

About the speaker

Dr. Tiffany Arnold is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the College of Health Sciences and Professions where she coordinates the Appalachian Studies Undergraduate and Graduate Certificate Programs. Additionally, she teaches Public Health and Environmental Health Courses Focused on Appalachian studies.

One of Dr. Arnold’s interests is the way that the Appalachian Region is portrayed in films and in the media, and she draws upon this interest to help others think critically about their own perceptions of the region and most importantly, where these ideas come from. . She will be discussing the Jack Spadaro Documentary award-winning film O Pioneer and why this film portrays Appalachian spirit in a beautiful way during a challenging time.

 

Check out the rest of the films in the Appalachian Stories Film Series

This series is sponsored by the Ohio Honors Program, University Libraries, College of Health Sciences and Professions, The Department of Social and Public Health, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, OU School of Film, and The Office of Signature Academic Experiences.

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Enter the Kingdom: CREEPSHOW

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Join us Tuesday, February 3rd at 7:00 p.m. for the frighteningly fun first foray for Stephen King as a screenwriter!

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George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) directs this wild horror film that’s served up in the form of an anthology, much like the classic E.C. horror comics of old that inspired it. Over the course of its six Stephen King-penned segments, we meet: A gruesome comic book character-come-to-life, spend time with an extended family with some serious skeletons in the closet, take some flights of fancy with a yokel whose dreams become all too real, watch a man exact revenge on his unfaithful girl and (undead) lover, see a high school janitor find out what’s inside a mysterious crate, watch an insect-hating germaphobe do battle with a host of cockroaches, and finally see how everything gets tied together.

With an ensemble cast that includes not only Stephen King and his son Joe, but also Hal Holbrook, Adrienne Barbeau (The Swamp Thing), Leslie Nielsen, Ted Danson, and Ed Harris, Creepshow is both a huge dose of King’s brilliance at weird storytelling and a prime example of 80’s horror!

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Heroes In Color: BLADE

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Join us Friday, February 6th at 7:00 p.m. as we kick off our 3rd Annual Heroes In Color film series with an action-packed movie that is sure to draw some blood!

FREE Admission – Tickets are required

This event will include a special cocktail and a pre-show trivia contest with prizes for the winner!

About the film

Say hello to Blade! Equal parts human-and-vampire, he’s a “daywalker” — in other words, he’s blessed with most of the supernatural attributes of his blood-thirsty brethren but with few of their vulnerabilities (although, he does have to drink human blood from time to time) which makes him the ultimate vampire hunter! It’s a good thing too, because Blade’s city is set to become ground zero for a strange ritual that seeks to re-awaken a long-slumbering vampire deity. There’s in-fighting within the ranks of the blood-suckers, however, as elder pure-blood elites and younger converts vie for power. This may give Blade just the advantage he needs to put a stop to their nefarious plans.

Based on a Marvel Comics character originally created in 1973 in the pages of Tomb of Dracula, Blade is the first installment of a multi-film franchise starring Wesley Snipes and the late-great Kris Kristofferson. This classic 1998 superhero film is guaranteed to get your blood up!

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