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The Met: Live in HD: Bizet’s CARMEN

Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries. Dazzling young mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina leads a powerhouse quartet of stars in the complex and volatile title role, alongside tenor Piotr Beczała as Carmen’s troubled lover Don José, soprano Angel Blue as the loyal Micaëla, and bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen as the swaggering Escamillo. Daniele Rustioni conducts Bizet’s heart-pounding score.

Due to the current repairs going on at the Athena Cinema, this program will be presented as a pre-recorded encore at the Ridges Auditorium. This screening starts at 12:55pm and is estimated to end at 4:39pm.

Admission $20 (senior $18, children $8)

OHIO Student: Free

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

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SALTBURN

Watch Trailer Director: Emerald Fennell
Writer(s): Emerald Fennell
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike

Oliver is humbly struggling to fit in with the crowd at Oxford: He’s certainly intelligent enough, but he lacks a certain polish that characterizes the well-monied majority of students who attend the prestigious school. When he chances to make friends with Felix, an aristocratic fellow student, he’s invited to come spend the summer with Felix and his family at “Saltburn”, their massive country manor. It is here that Oliver stands to learn lessons about how the world really works as he’s initiated deeper into the lifestyle ultra-rich.

Written and directed by Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), Saltburn‘s plot is a modernized cut from the same literary cloth as classic novels like Brideshead Revisited and The Great Gatsby – stories where naiveté and decadence do battle in a person’s heart to determine the true degree of their humanity. With its elegant camera-work and snappy performances from a critically-acclaimed cast that includes Barry Keoghan (Oliver), Jacob Elordi (Felix), and Rosamund Pike (Elsbeth, Felix’s mother), Saltburn has been hailed as yet another Oscar-worthy offering from the multi-talented Fennell.

 

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Running Time: 127 MIN127 MIN
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CASSANDRO

Watch Trailer Director: Roger Ross Williams
Writer(s): Roger Ross Williams
Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Bad Bunny

Set in the 1980’s, Cassandro is a true-to-life dramatic account of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay man from El Paso, Texas who embarks on a career as a professional wrestler. Eventually, he opts to cross the border into Juárez where he becomes part of the “lucha libre” scene – Mexico’s unique style of high-flying, no-holds-barred wrestling. When he meets new trainer Sabrina, she compels him to let his flamboyant flag fly by performing as an “exótico”, a type of luchador known for wrestling in drag and adopting a sassy and undignified demeanor in the ring. Once Armendáriz fully embraces his new persona as Cassandro, his star begins to rise and he becomes a champion.

In his first departure from documentary filmmaking, Cassandro was written and directed by Roger Ross Williams, the first African-American director to win an Academy Award. This film stars Gael Garcia Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, and Bad Bunny.

 

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Running Time: 107 MIN107 MIN
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NYAD

Watch Trailer Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Cast: Annette Benning, Jodi Foster, Rhys Ifans

Nyad recounts the life of famed long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad who has spent a lifetime accomplishing incredible feats of athleticism, including an alleged successful attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage…at age 64!

The movie stars Annette Benning as Nyad, with supporting roles filled by Jodi Foster and Rhys Ifans. Based on Nyad’s own biography, the film is the latest offering from directors Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, the Husband-and-wife filmmaking duo responsible for the exquisite mountain-climbing film Free Solo.

 

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DUMB MONEY

Watch Trailer Director: Craig Gillespie
Cast: Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Nick Offerman, America Georgina Ferrara

The “Game Stop short squeeze” of 2021 was one of the wildest financial rides in the modern history of the New York Stock Exchange: Never before had amateur traders been able to go head-to-head against the deep pockets of ultra-rich hedge funds to make (and, well, lose) a fortune in such a short timeframe. Dumb Money brings the drama, excitement, and pure bizarre-ness of this extraordinary event to the big screen — a veritable nerdy-David-vs-UHNWI-Goliath tale for the ages!

With an ensemble cast of all-star talent that includes Paul Dano as financial analyst Keith Gill, Seth Rogen as hedge-funder Gabe Plotkin, and Sebastian Stan as Robinhood App CEO Vlad Tenev, Dumb Money is based on the book The Anti-Social Network by Ben Mezrich and directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, Pam & Tommy, Mike).

 

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MAESTRO

Watch Trailer Director: Bradley Cooper
Writer(s): Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan
Awards: Golden Lion (nom) - Venice Int'l Film Festival

Bradley Cooper returns to being on both sides of the camera with Maestro, a film that explores the complex relationship between the celebrated conductor-and-composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia. Bernstein, who never publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, was known to have had several affairs throughout his life with both men and women. Nevertheless, the couple stayed mostly committed to one another until Felicia’s untimely death in the late-1970s from lung cancer.

Cooper writes, directs, and stars as Bernstein, opposite Carey Mulligan who plays the role of his wife. Since its premiere in September of 2023, the film, shot in exquisite black-and-white, has been nominated for a Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival.

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ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT

Watch Trailer Director: Raven Jackson
Writer(s): Raven Jackson
Cast: Charlene McClure, Moses Ingram, Chris Chalk

The debut film from writer/director Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a poetic journey through the life of Mack, a black woman living in modern-day rural Mississippi. The sparsely-dialogued plot follows Mack throughout several portions of her life, from childhood to old age, as she experiences love, loss, fear, joy…all the myriad sentiments that make a life a Life.

Jackson’s choice to utilize multiple actors for several characters as they age in the film really helps to elevate the sense of time passing as the story moves through the decades. Also, the movie was filmed on location in rural southern towns that have changed very little over the course of the last half-a-century, and this gives the film a very strong “sense of place”.

All Dirt Roads is a masterful debut and masterpiece of lyricality:  not only a moving portrayal of a life, but also a moving portrait of life in the Deep South.

 

 

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THE ROYAL HOTEL

Director: Kitty Green
Writer(s): Kitty Green, Oscar Redding
Cast: Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving

Two young American women embark on backpacking tour of Australia’s famed Outback in order to sow their wild oats and do some soul-searching. On the trip, they decide to make a little extra money by taking jobs as bartenders at a dusty roadhouse in a remote village. Thinking that they’ve found a temporary slice of authentic Aussie atmosphere, things begin to unravel as they move ever deeper into their interactions with the locals.

Co-written and directed by Kitty Green, this gritty thriller re-examines the masculinity of life in the unforgiving environment of The Outback from a female perspective. It stars Julia Garner (Ozark, The Assistant), Jessica Henwick (Game of Thrones), and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, LOTR Trilogy, The Hobbit).

 

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FERRARI

Watch Trailer Director: Michael Mann
Writer(s): Troy Kennedy Martin
Cast: Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz

In his latest film, director Michael Mann explores the life of racing and automotive icon Enzo Ferrari. Based on the best-selling biography Enzo Ferrari: The Man and The Machine, Ferrari’s legacy as “Il Grande Vecchio” of timeless Italian sportscars is brought to the big screen in exciting cinematic detail in a way that only Mann can achieve!

Starring Adam Driver in the lead role, the script for Ferrari was written by Troy Kennedy Martin who also wrote the script for the original 1969 version of The Italian Job. There’s no doubt that this film will be an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride thru one of the greatest chapters in automotive history!

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From the Hills & Hollers: Appalachian Stories Film Series

We’re thrilled to present the 3rd annual From the Hills and Hollers: Appalachian Stories Film Series for 2024-2025! Launched in 2022, this series has so far been a resounding success with the local community, so we’re extremely pleased to continue our presentation of this very special line of programming!

The Hills & Hollers series seeks to foster a deeper connection between the residents of Athens city and the Ohio University community to the cultural legacy of the surrounding region through films that examine the many facets, both positive and negative, of life in Appalachia. Each year’s batch of films is, in large part, the product of filmmakers who have intimate knowledge of living in this environment and, as a result, are well-suited for representing the realities of Appalachia on the big screen.

Short introductions/lectures will provide context for the film and identify the underlying issues related to the film’s portrayal of Appalachian culture. After each screening, a special guest speaker will engage with the audience in a Q&A session to further discuss important topics related to the film.

All events in the series are presented with free admission.

This series is sponsored by the Ohio Honors Program, University Libraries, College of Health Sciences and Professions, The Department of Social and Public Health, GO Local, University College, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Multicultural Center and The Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Center for Campus and Community Engagement, and The Women’s Center.

 

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