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The Met: Live in HD: Bellini’s LA SONNAMBULA

Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.

The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:10 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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THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE

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Winner of the Camera d’Or Award at Cannes – given to the best “first” feature film – this tenderly-crafted film about the loss of childhood is sure to garner much praise for Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi!

Set in 1990’s Iraq, The President’s Cake follows 9-year-old Lamia who has been specially selected to bake a cake for The President’s birthday. As Lamia and some companions winds their way through the rough urban environment surrounding her – an environment of coarseness, suspicion, and turmoil – in a search for the basic elements to make the birthday cake, the challenges they face end up strengthening their sense of humanity in a world where there seems to be not much left.

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TONY

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Tony is a biographical comedy-drama about one of the food world’s most incredible personalities and greatest losses – Chef and writer Anthony Bourdain.

Starring newcomer Dominic Sessa, and based partly on Bourdain’s famous memoir Kitchen Confidential, this film takes us back to the summer of 1976 and Provincetown, MA when Bourdain takes a summer job, begins at the bottom of the culinary totem pole, and discovers the thrilling grind of life in the restaurant kitchen…a thrill that would change his life forever.

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NICKEL BOYS – One Night Only!

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Join us Tuesday, October 21st at 7:00 p.m. for a special screening of Nickel Boys – the Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel!

In honor of Whitehead’s in-person visit to Ohio U on Wednesday, October 22nd

For more info about the Colson Whitehead visit, click the link below:

Ohio University Libraries Presents: Colson Whitehead

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

About the film

Elwood, a young African-American boy, is coming of age in Florida during the 1960’s Jim Crow era. Even in the midst of the tense racial attitudes that were dividing society at that time, Elwood’s future appears bright: he is awarded an opportunity to attend an HBCU’s honor’s program tuition-free. While hitchhiking to class, however, Elwood is picked up by a man driving a stolen car and the two are pulled over by the police. Elwood is unfairly arrested as an accomplice, and his hopeful trajectory through life is forever changed as he is transferred to a segregated reform school – The Nickel Academy – which is notorious for is brutal abuse of black students. He meets and befriends Turner, another student, and the two learn to rely on each other to make it through the tough environment even though their ideas about how black people should integrate into white society are very different.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead about the infamous “Dozier School”, and written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys uses the unique approach of presenting the visual narrative of the film through the first-person perspective – in other words, through the eyes of the protagonists. The film has also been nominated for and won several prestigious awards on the film festival circuit for its script, cinematography, and direction.

Special thanks to the following organizations for sponsoring this event: Ohio University Honor’s Tutorial College, Cutler’s Scholars, University Libraries, and the Ohio U English Department

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MINIONS & MONSTERS

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Director Pierre Coffin and Brian Lynch bring you the third installment of the Minions prequel series!

Set about a century ago in the 1920’s, the film follows the exuberant, cavorting, and chaotic adventures of everybody’s favorite bunch of banana-colored creatures as they try to make a monster flick…and leave their mark on Tinsel Town. You’ll get to see the Minions become movie stars, lose everything, unleash monsters into the world, and then come together to save the world from the mayhem they bring about. What more could you ask for..?

Minions & Monsters features Pierre Coffin as the voice of all the Minions characters, as well as the voicing talents of Trey Parker, Jesse Eisenberg, Allison Janney, Bobby Moynihan, Christoph Waltz, and Jeff Bridges.

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Hispanic Film Series: MOON’S HEART (El Corazón de la Luna)

Watch Trailer Director: Aldo Salvini
Cast: Haydee Cáceres, Bruno Balbuena, Sergio Velasco

Join us on Tuesday, October 21st at 7:00 p.m. as we finish up our Hispanic Film Series with a mesmerizing,  award-winning Peruvian sci-fi film with lots of heart!

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

This event will include a panel discussion

About the film

This inventive sci-fi/fantasy film – selected as Peru’s entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards in 2023 – is the story of “M”, an elderly homeless woman who drifts through life as a lonely shadow crossing the same geography every day. Her days are spent day-dreaming about her past life until a chance encounter with an ant prompts her to share her world with the tiny, insignificant insect…A world made of nostalgic memories and a dark presence that haunts her. Soon thereafter, a strange being – a “mechanical angel” – arrives to help her get her life on better footing. Evoking the sense of abandonment and mental anguish that homeless people suffer, Moon’s Heart is an extraordinarily touching film featuring an unforgettable performance by lead actress Haydeé Cáceres.

Check out the rest of our line-up of films in the Hispanic Film Series

The Spanish Film Club series was made possible with the support of the OHIO School of International Studies and Languages (SISAL), Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society), Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.

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TUNER

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New York City professional piano tuner Harry Horowitz has an interesting apprentice: a young man, Niki, who is the son of one of Harry’s late friends and who suffers from a condition called “hyperacusis”. This condition gives Niki extremely sensitive hearing, which makes him an excellent choice to learn the job of tuning some of the city’s most prestigious instruments. One day, however, Harry forgets the combination to a safe that stores his valuables, and he discovers that Niki’s ailment also gives him the uncanny talent to be a safe-cracker when the young man figures out how to open the locked safe using his special ears. Later, Niki encounters a group of thieves, employs his talents to help them with their crime, and ends up working for one of the city’s crime lords. When Harry becomes sick, however, Niki is forced into a delicate balance act of choosing between his loyalty to his mentor and to his underworld employer.

The debut narrative film from Oscar-winning documentarian Daniel Roher, Tuner is a fantastic new crime thriller starring newcomer Leo Woodall (The White Lotus) and Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman.

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From the Hills and Hollers: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT with Travis Eskins

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Cast: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard

Join us Thursday, October 23rd at 7:00 p.m. for a be-witching addition to our Appalachian Stories Film Series…The Blair Witch Project!

The event will include a pre-show presentation by Travis Eskins

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

About the film

Three film students looking to make a documentary take a road trip to rural Maryland in order to investigate and interview residents about an alleged local myth centered on an entity known as “The Blair Witch”. Their efforts point them to a hermit who, fifty years ago, was reported to have kidnapped and murdered children deep in the forest. Beyond just being a grim story, the students learn more about the dark and mysterious character of the woods – more murders, disappearances, strange occult figures…in essence, the locals believe the forest to be cursed. When curiosity gets the better of the trio, they set out to explore the woods and see for themselves what secrets lie among the trees. What they discover is a force more dark than they could ever imagine.

About the speaker

Travis Eskins is a graduate student in the Film Studies program at Ohio University. He was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he studied Film and English Literature at Marshall University. His work is focused on depictions of labor movements in film, especially those from the Appalachian region. He is currently teaching a course on films set in Appalachia. Travis will be discussing The Blair Witch Project’s influential role in modern film history and connecting it to the local legend of the Mothman through the concepts of Commemoration and Folklore-ization of actual events.

 

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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PRESSURE

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Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser stars as Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower in this new epic war drama that delves deep into the tension and high-stakes involved in the crucial 72-hour period just before the invasion of Normandy during WWII. As Ike and his general staff are finalizing plans for one of the greatest military operations in history, everything hinges upon the weather. While the military commanders carry a heavy load, the real burden rests on British meteorologist Capt. James Stagg (played by Andrew Scott) who is tasked with predicting what the skies will have in store for a maneuver that will surely lead to mass casualties and ultimately decide the fate of the free world!

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THE ODYSSEY

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The latest film from two-time Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan adapts one of the greatest stories ever told – Homer’s epic story of the return of Odysseus!

The Odyssey follows the legendary Greek king of Ithaca on his protracted and perilous journey back to his kingdom in the wake of the Trojan War. Its a journey replete with encounters with mythical beings like the Cyclops Polyphemus, enchanting sirens, and the nymph Calypso, who tries to ensnare the wandering king in a web of romance. Not to be thwarted, however, Odysseus has a singular goal – return to his kingdom, reunite with his beloved wife Penelope, and reclaim the throne that has been lost to him for far too long.

 

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Running Time: 172 MIN172 MIN
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