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PAVAROTTI: Last Day Thursday, July 11th

Watch Trailer Director: Ron Howard

From the filmmaking team behind the highly-acclaimed documentary The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years, PAVAROTTI is a riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people. Academy Award (R) winner Ron Howard puts audiences front row center for an exploration of The Voice…The Man…The Legend. Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. This cinematic event features history-making performances and intimate interviews, including never-before-seen footage and cutting-edge Dolby Atmos technology.

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Running Time: 114 min114 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Pavarotti's larger-than-life personality shines in almost every scene. The singer's optimism is contagious, and his schoolboy-like wonder is jubilant. There's a lot to smile at here.

Ken Jaworowski
New York Times
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One Night Only: DESTINATION PLANET NEGRO

Watch Trailer Director: Kevin Willmott
Writer(s): Kevin Willmott
Cast: Trey Byers, Kevin Willmott, Tosin Morohunfola

It’s 1939 and black leaders W.E.B. DuBois and George Washington Carver decide that segregated America is no place for African Americans, so they devise a secret plot to solve the “Negro Problem” by way of a rocket ship to Mars. Carrying an improbable crew of three, the spacecraft vaults into a time warp, landing its brave scientist-astronauts in modern day Kansas City. And, though the astonished explorers discover developments like young men with drooping pants and the election of a black president, DESTINATION: PLANET NEGRO! reveals that things may not have changed as much as we think they have.

Written and directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Willmott  (BlacKkKlansman) featuring Trey Byers (Empire), Kevin Willmott, Tosin Morohunfola (The Chi), Wes Studi (The Last of the Mohicans), Keith Loneker (Lakeview Terrace), former NBA/Cleveland Cavaliers player Scot Pollard, and Sean Delijuan as Reverend Jones.

Admission $6.50. Featuring actor Sean Delijuan in-house!

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Running Time: 98 min98 MIN
Not Rated
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LATE NIGHT: Last Day Thursday, July 11th

Watch Trailer Director: Nisha Ganatra
Writer(s): Mindy Kaling
Cast: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling

Legendary late-night talk show host’s world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.

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Running Time: 102 MIN102 MIN
R Rated
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TRIAL BY JURY: THE CASE OF THE N-WORD

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From its inception, The N-word has both empowered and demoralized, as if it is a core basis for assessing one’s character or root identification. Initially, its etymology conferred uniform contempt for black people. But soon, The N-word became a linguistic lightning rod, separating friend from foe and defining respective politics and ideals.

More than ever, common opinions about The N-word now span a wide spectrum of perspectives, including pro, con, and those that employ the judicial analysis of free speech – it all depends on the time, place, and manner. The range of opinions and attitudes are often influenced by cultural, generational, and psychographic factors, and qualifying distinctions are frequently made on the basis of pronunciation or ethnic eligibility to even speak the word.

What quantifiable impact can be measured by the infliction or mere utterance of The N-word?

How does it strengthen a bond or pierce the fragile membrane of civility?

What would happen if the N-word were put on trial?

Join us for an interactive deliberation on Black Alumni Reunion Weekend, presented by Res Ipsa Media and producer/OU alum Kyle Bowser. Free admission!

Sponsored by the Center for Law, Justice, and Culture and the Scripps Diversity Committee.

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ECHO IN THE CANYON: Last Day Thursday, August 8th

Watch Trailer Director: Andrew Slater (XI)

Echo In The Canyon celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield and The Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. It was a moment (1965 to 1967) when bands came to LA to emulate The Beatles and Laurel Canyon emerged as a hotbed of creativity and collaboration for a new generation of musicians who would soon put an indelible stamp on the history of American popular music. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film explores the beginnings of the Laurel Canyon music scene. Dylan uncovers never-before-heard personal details behind the bands and their songs and how that music continues to inspire today. Echo in the Canyon contains candid conversations and performances with Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr, Michelle Phillips, Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn and Jackson Browne as well as contemporary musicians they influenced such as Tom Petty (in his very last film interview), Beck, Fiona Apple, Cat Power, Regina Spektor and Norah Jones.

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Running Time: 82 min82 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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A film like this is catnip for the analytical hemisphere of my brain, as it details precisely how The Beatles led to The Byrds, and then in turn how The Beach Boys' landmark album, 'Pet Sounds,' inspired 'Sgt. Pepper.'

Matt Fagerholm
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ALL THAT WE DESTROY with Director Chelsea Stardust

Watch Trailer Director: Chelsea Stardust
Cast: Samantha Mathis, Israel Broussard, Aurora Perrineau, Dora Madison

A geneticist who fears her son may be a serial killer creates a group of clones to cure him of his violent tendencies. A science fiction thriller, released on Hulu as part of the Blumhouse Into the Dark series.

Free admission sponsored by the School of Film.

Post-show Q&A with director and OHIO alum, Chelsea Stardust.

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Running Time: 90 MIN90 MIN
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THE SOUVENIR: Last Day Thursday, June 27th

Watch Trailer Director: Joanna Hogg
Writer(s): Joanna Hogg
Cast: Honor Swinton-Byrne, Tilda Swinton, Tom Burke
Awards: Winner of 2019 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize

A shy film student begins finding her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man. She defies her protective mother and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship which comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.

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Running Time: 119 MIN119 MIN
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Sustainability Series: WASTE LAND

Watch Trailer Director: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley
Cast: Vik Muniz
Awards: Best Documentary Nominee at 2011 Academy Awards

Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world’s largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of “catadores” — or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz’s initial objective was to “paint” the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with these inspiring characters as they recreate photographic images of themselves out of garbage reveals both dignity and despair as the catadores begin to re-imagine their lives. Walker (Devil’s Playground, Blindsight) has great access to the entire process and, in the end, offers stirring evidence of the transformative power of art and the alchemy of the human spirit.

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Running Time: 95 MIN95 MIN
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START BY BELIEVING: The Power of a Survivor-Centered Process

With the help of one brave student survivor, Brie Sivy, “Start by Believing” – first brought to campus by the Ohio University Police Department (OUPD) and the Survivor Advocacy Program (SAP) – is going strong at Ohio University. Brie has been publicly speaking and sharing her story alongside Detective Mathew Austin of OUPD and Kim Castor of SAP since 2018. Their first presentation, to over 200 campus and community members, spearheaded Ohio University’s “Start by Believing” campaign and highlighted how the often-traumatizing experience of working with the criminal justice system can, in fact, be empowering for survivors if a survivor-focused approach and interdisciplinary team-model are used. A well-received second presentation followed the next school year and the requests to repeat the talk came pouring in.

Hoping to keep the momentum going and reach an even wider audience, the Ohio University Police Department & Survivor Advocacy Program partnered with Ohio University’s University Communication and Marketing team to create a documentary to allow Brie’s story to continue being told. During the 9/19/19 presentation, Brie, Kim, and Detective Austin will present their 30-minute movie that uses Brie’s journey from victim, to survivor, to aspiring social worker to illustrate how OUPD works to empower survivors throughout their sexual assault investigations. You will also hear about trauma’s effect on memory and witness the impact possible when police and advocacy work together with a common goal.

Brianna Sivy, Student, Survivor Advocacy Program at Ohio University, Columbus, OH

Mathew Austin, Detective, Ohio University Police Department, Athens, OH

Kimberly Castor, LISW-S, Director, Ohio University Survivor Advocacy Program, Athens, OH

 

 

 

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ALL IS TRUE: Last Day Thursday, June 27th

Watch Trailer Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writer(s): Ben Elton
Cast: Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Kenneth Branagh

The year is 1613, Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground, and devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationships with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as husband and father. His very personal search for the truth uncovers secrets and lies within a family at war.

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Running Time: 101 min101 MIN
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