Lorne Michaels, the helmsman of Saturday Night Live’s half-century-plus reign as one of the funniest shows to hit television, is a legendary figure in not just televised media, but also Pop Culture at-large. This new documentary takes you behind the scenes of the hit show and Michaels’ life to show you how he came to be one of the most revered personalities in comedy. Featuring lots of archival footage, as well as interviews with past cast members like Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock and more, Lorne is a celebration of a man who has spent his life spreading laughter to billions of people around the world.

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Dan and Lisa are married (and miserable). In a last-ditch effort to salvage their sinking matrimonial ship, the couple opts to get away to a remote cabin in the woods in the hopes that some romantic sparks will start to fly again. However, what they don’t know about one another is the fact that each is secretly devising a plan to kill the other! As the plans-within-plans unfold, things start to go haywire as outsiders enter the picture and derail the couple’s plans. Carnage ensues, and Dan and Lisa may discover that it’s more important to survive their marriage rather than save it.

This action-comedy-thriller is the latest film from director (and member of The Lonely Island comedy troupe) Jorma Taccone and stars Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis.

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Written and directed by acclaimed horror filmmaker David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) comes a new sci-fi horror film starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor!

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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The live theater capture of the hit musical Hadestown, which won eight Tony Awards in 2019 including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, featuring the five original principals of the Broadway company. The genre-defying musical blends modern American folk music with New Orleans-inspired jazz to reimagine a sweeping ancient tale.

Following two intertwining love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back.

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Cooper Hoffman stars as Elliot, a naive young man who lands a dream job for an iconic and provocative artist, Erika Tracy (played by Olivia Wilde). As Elliot’s job becomes more involved, his fantasies for Erika begin to come true as she embraces him as her sexual muse. Elliot soon finds himself out of his depth, however, as Erika takes him on a journey more profound than his wildest imaginings — a journey into a world of sex, obsession, power, betrayal and murder.

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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 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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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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140 MIN