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Popcorn Sidewalk Sale!

If you’re craving movie theater popcorn as much as we are this spring, we have some very exciting and appetizing news to share!

On Wednesday, June 3rd, the Athena will celebrate its 105th anniversary with a special popcorn sidewalk sale! From noon to 1PM and again from 5PM to 7PM, stop by Court Street and purchase some delicious, local Shagbark Seed & Mill popcorn and other concessions to go. On top of satisfying taste buds, proceeds will help support the theater during our current closure.

 

How To Order

 

In the days prior to the sale, customers will have the ability to order a popcorn package of their choice online and specify when they would like to pick up their concessions: either between noon and 1PM, or between 5PM and 7PM on Wednesday, June 3rd.

While visitors are welcome to walk up and purchase popcorn on-site during pickup hours, ordering online ahead of time will help limit contact and prepare our staff. We ask that when you arrive, you respect social distancing etiquette, and we also strongly encourage mask-wearing as a courtesy to our staff and to others uptown.

 

Click here to order ahead online

 

The Menu

 

◦  Boxed Popcorn – $3

◦  Bagged Popcorn – $5

◦  Add a Fountain Drink – $2

(Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mt Dew, Root Beer, Pink Lemonade, Crush, Sierra Mist, Dr. Pepper)

◦  Add a Candy – $3

(Kit Kats, Twizzlers, M&Ms, Peanut M&Ms, Dark Twix, Raisinets, Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Reese’s Pieces, Sour Patch Kids, Mike & Ikes, Skittles, SweeTarts)

 

We hope to see you under the marquee on Wednesday!

 

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THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF: Last Day Thursday, June 25th

Watch Trailer Director: Benjamin Ree

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF.

 

About the film

Desperate for answers about the theft of her 2 paintings, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that will forever link these lonely souls.

 

How to stream

For $4, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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[A] nuanced and beguiling new documentary about the various things we all take from each other.

David Ehrlich
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THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS: Last Day Thursday, June 25th

Watch Trailer Director: Peter Medak

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream THE GHOST OF PETER SELLERS.

 

About the film

The Ghost of Peter Sellers is a feature length documentary directed by Peter Medak that tells the tale of his ill-fated Hollywood 17th Century pirate comedy shot in Cyprus, starring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan in 1973.

 

How to stream

For $10, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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The director has made a documentary that's both a mea culpa for his role in a botched enterprise that left no one looking good and an affecting attempt to define a life's turning point.

Todd McCarthy
Hollywood Reporter
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NYICFF KID FLICKS ONE: Last Day Sunday, May 24th

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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent NYICFF KID FLICKS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream NYICFF KID FLICKS.

 

About the program

Bigger, brighter, bolder—change is in the air in NYICFF Kid Flicks 1, brimming with fun and clever stories of growth and transformation.

If you’ve ever been the youngest of the group, you’ll sympathize with the little tadpole who always falls a tad behind in the charming KUAP. Catching up on penmanship is the name of the game if you want to graduate from pencils in the winning doc Pen Licence. Then little ones are in charge and grown-ups get to play when the hilarious Flipped reworks the script.

These shorts and so much more await you!

 

6:1 – Russia, 3 min

Belly Flop – South Africa, 5 min

Brooklyn Breeze – Colombia, United States, 4 min

Flipped – United Kingdom, 5 min

KUAP – Switzerland, 8 min

Mi Abuelita – Guatemala, 2 min

Preschool Poets: Poem About All Different Things – United States, 2 min

Raccoon and the Light – United States, 4 min

Slurp – France, 4 min

Small Spark – France, 4 min

The Pen Licence – Australia, 9 min

The Pig on the Hill – United States, 6 min

 

All of the shorts in this program have been approved for children ages 3+.

 

A second KID FLICKS program is also available to rent and stream, with an additional hour-plus of shorts approved for children ages 8+.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for 48 hours.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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NYICFF KID FLICKS TWO: Last Day Sunday, May 24th

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This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent NYICFF KID FLICKS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream NYICFF KID FLICKS.

 

About the program

NYICFF Kid Flicks 2 bridges the gap between little and big for young audiences growing in experiences and ideas.

Take a wild ride and harness the (cat) power of the cosmos with the quirky film Catmos. If your curious about more earthly matters, take a page out of a Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl. And whether their tastes lean umami or sweet, the duo in Mogu & Perol just might convince you there is simply nothing more delish than a warm friendship.

With these films and more, NYICFF Kid Flicks 2 shows you’re never too old to learn a few new tricks!

 


A Field Guide to Being a 12-Year-Old Girl – Australia, 20 min

Catmos – Russia, 5 min

Hors Piste – France, 6 min

Jesszilla – United States, 7 min

Mogu & Perol – Japan, 9 min

Running Lights – Finland, India, Lithuania, 11 min

Saturday’s Apartment – South Korea, 7 min

Slow Dance – Sweden, 6 min

 

All of the shorts in this program have been approved for children ages 8+.

 

A second KID FLICKS program is also available to rent and stream, with an additional hour of shorts approved for children ages 3+.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for 48 hours.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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SPACESHIP EARTH: Last Day Thursday, June 11th

Watch Trailer Director: Matt Wolf

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent SPACESHIP EARTH you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream SPACESHIP EARTH.

 

About the film

Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.

 

How to stream

For $4, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Their story, flaws and all, is a wonder to behold.

Matt Patches
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THE BOOKSELLERS: Last Day Thursday, June 11th

Watch Trailer Director: D.W. Young

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE BOOKSELLERS you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream THE BOOKSELLERS.

 

About the film

Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.

 

How to stream

For $10, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Lovely and wistful. 'The Booksellers' is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that contains the world.

Owen Gleiberman
Variety
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PAHOKEE: Last Day Thursday, May 28th

Watch Trailer Director: Ivete Lucas , Patrick Bresnan

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent PAHOKEE you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream PAHOKEE.

*To benefit the Athena and reduce the price to $12, be sure to use promo code: athena

 

About the film

In an isolated town in rural Florida, four teens experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school.

Ivete Lucas and Patrick Bresnan paint a detailed and astonishing portrait of PAHOKEE, a rural village in the Everglades, Florida. Very close-knit, its inhabitants fight to face fragile financial situations and an uncertain future. Through a precise observational approach, the film captures the daily life of this city restoring a rich palette of nuances. From sporting events to beauty contests at school, the filmmakers explore social and community rituals, and how gender and identity are portrayed as new stories are created.

PAHOKEE is the powerful portrait of a forgotten America, absent from the current political discourse.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more.

  1. Click the link above to purchase your ticket to stream.
  2. Select “Rent $18.00” in the top-right corner of the screen.
  3. Starting May 1st, you may enter promo code athena to reduce the price from $18 to $12 and apply part of your rental fee towards benefiting the theater.
  4. Enter payment info and enjoy the show.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Pahokee is also a worthwhile reminder for those who haven't faced similar challenges that things rarely come easy for those from modest circumstances.

Justin Lowe
Hollywood Reporter
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THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM: Last Day Thursday, May 28th

Watch Trailer Director: Mark Bozek II

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

Click here to purchase your ticket to stream THE TIMES OF BILL CUNNINGHAM.

 

About the film

Told in Bill Cunningham’s own words from a recently unearthed six-hour 1994 interview, the iconic street photographer and fashion historian chronicles, in his customarily cheerful and plainspoken manner, moonlighting as a milliner in France during the Korean War, his unique relationship with First Lady Jackie Kennedy, his four decades at The New York Times and his democratic view of fashion and society. Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker, The Times of Bill Cunningham features incredible photographs chosen from over 3 million previously unpublicized images and documents from Cunningham.

 

How to stream

For $10, you will get access to watch on any internet-connected device, including laptops, tablets and smartphones, AppleTV , Chromecast , and more .

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for three days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Running Time: 74 min74 MIN
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If you have a subject as delightful and forthcoming as the self-invented shutterbug, not to mention decades' worth of fabulous footage and photographic records of high and low fashion, you really can't have too much of a good thing.

David Rooney
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EXTRA ORDINARY: Last Day Thursday, April 30th

Watch Trailer Director: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman
Cast: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte

This film is part of our Virtual Cinema Screening Initiative. When you rent EXTRA ORDINARY you are not only supporting independent film, but also supporting the Athena Cinema and our mission.

 

About the film

Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.

 

How to stream

For $12, you will get access to watch on your computer, phone, or tablet, or cast to your Google Chromecast or Smart TV. You can also download the Kino Now app for Roku or Apple TV (requires tvOS 9.0 or later) and watch the film there.

You will have to register for a free KinoNow account if you don’t already have one.

After you’ve entered your payment information, your rental period will start immediately and last for five days.

 

 

If you are experiencing any technical difficulties with your rental, help is available to you directly from the distributor hosting your film:

While we encourage anyone having trouble to utilize these resources for quick, detailed resolutions for common issues, the Athena team is interested in hearing about your experience and will do our best to provide assistance.

Thank you for your support.

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Running Time: 93 min93 MIN
R Rated
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"Extra Ordinary" is an extraordinarily funny tale about ghostbusting, lonely hearts and moving on. It'll possess you.

Adam Graham
Detroit News
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