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AMAZING GRACE: Last Day Thursday, June 6th

Watch Trailer Director: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack
Cast: Aretha Franklin

A soul-stirring, foot-stomping, hand-raising experience, Amazing Grace is a long-lost documentary and concert film from 1972 featuring the incomparable Aretha Franklin singing Gospel songs while supported by members of her band and the Southern California Community Choir founded by gospel music legend, the Rev. James Cleveland.

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Running Time: 87 min87 MIN
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You get both the most lovely gaze a professional camera's ever laid upon Aretha Franklin and some of the mightiest singing she's ever laid on you.

Wesley Morris
The New York Times
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NOSFERATU with musical accompaniment by Sean Parsons

An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, NOSFERATU is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau.

Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau’s Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws — perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned.

Musical accompaniment will be performed live by Sean Parsons, whose previous silent film performances at the Athena include The Phantom of the Opera in June of 2018 and Buster Keaton’s The General in May of 2019.

Free Admission sponsored by OU Performing Arts.

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Running Time: 81 min81 MIN
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Nosferatu is not just a great horror movie. It’s a poem of horror, a symphony of dread, a film so rapt, mysterious and weirdly lovely it haunts the mind long after it’s over.

Michael Wimington
Chicago Tribune
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ASK DR. RUTH: Last Day Thursday, May 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Ryan White
Cast: Ruth K. Westheimer

Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. With her diminutive frame, thick German accent, and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and unlikely path to a career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.

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Running Time: 100 MIN100 MIN
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Dads Weekend: MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL

Watch Trailer Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle

BRING OUT YOUR DAD!!

This November, The Athena Cinema continues its Family Weekend tradition honoring Monty Python with a mind-warping trip back to Camelot, remastered for the big screen. Don’t miss a chance to see one of the most bonkers and influential comedies of all time with your elderberry-smelling father!

Admission $8

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Running Time: 92 minutes92 MIN
PG Rated
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So unnecessarily gorgeous, there are moments where it feels like Tarkovsky with drag and farting.

Tom Huddleston
Time Out
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ONE NIGHT SCREENING OF “CURTIZ” WITH CAST AND CREW MEMBERS

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A narrative biopic about legendary director Michael Curtiz and his time spent on set filming Casablanca.


On November 4, 2019 starting at 7 pm, we will be screening the Hungarian feature film CURTIZ, a narrative biopic about legendary director Michael Curtiz and his time spent on set filming Casablanca. The movie is in English. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A with the film’s screenwriter Zsuzsanna Bak and supporting actors Lili Bordán and József Gyabronka. They will discuss the controversial character at the heart of this film, and share the process of production, the festival run of the film (which has already won several prestigious awards including the Grand Prix at the Montréal World Film Festival) and plans for distribution and future collaborations..

As America prepares to enter WW2, Hungarian film director Michael Curtiz grapples with political intervention and a dysfunctional relationship with his estranged daughter, amidst the troubled production of Casablanca in 1942.

Director: Tamás Yvan Topolánszky

Producer: Claudia Sümeghy

Free admission. All are welcome! With the generous support of Arts for Ohio.

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Running Time: 98 MIN98 MIN
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HIGH LIFE: Last Day Thursday, May 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Claire Denis
Writer(s): Claire Denis
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin

Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system.The crew death-row inmates led by a doctor (Juliette Binoche) with sinister motives has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole. A staggering and primal film about love and intimacy, suffused with anguished memories of a lost Earth, High Life is a haunting, thrilling achievement from visionary director Claire Denis.

Winner of IndieWire Critics’ Poll Best Films Opening in 2019

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Running Time: 110 MIN110 MIN
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HER SMELL: Last Day Thursday, May 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Alex Ross Perry
Writer(s): Alex Ross Perry
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne, Dan Stevens

Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss) is a ’90s punk rock superstar who once filled arenas with her grungy all-female trio Something She. Now she plays smaller venues while grappling with motherhood, exhausted bandmates, nervous record company executives, and a new generation of rising talent eager to usurp her stardom. When Becky’s chaos and excesses derail a recording session and national tour, she finds herself shunned, isolated and alone. Forced to get sober, temper her demons, and reckon with the past, she retreats from the spotlight and tries to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.

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Running Time: 134 MIN134 MIN
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Elisabeth Moss turns in a five-alarm blaze of a performance as a frontwoman who makes Courtney Love look like Mother Teresa.

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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Science on Screen®: JUNO with Dr. Jane Balbo

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The Science of Contraception

A pre-show talk from Dr. Jane Balbo of the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine on contraception, followed by a free screening of 2007’s award-winning comedy Juno.

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When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this coming-of-age comedy drama. Juno may seem wise beyond her years, but after sleeping with classmate Bleeker, the pregnant teen quickly realizes how little she really knows about life. Thankfully, Juno has been blessed with parents who trust their daughter’s judgment, and a best friend named Leah, who’s always willing to help out in a pinch. With a little help from Leah, Juno soon comes into contact with Mark and Vanessa — an affluent suburban couple who have been unable to conceive a child of their own. Mark and Vanessa seem like they would make great parents, and are eager to adopt Juno’s unborn child. Now, as adolescent Juno is faced with a series of very adult decisions, she will draw on the support of her family and friends in order to discover who she truly is, and discover that one bad choice can have a lifetime of consequences

About the speaker

Jane Balbo, DO, is an osteopathic family physician and an assistant professor of family medicine at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio. Her clinical practice is OhioHealth Campus Care at Ohio University, OU’s student health center, and she is co-medical director there.

 

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Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

 

Free admission to this event is provided by Arts for OHIO.

 

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Running Time: 96 min96 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Juno is hilarious and sweet-tempered, perceptive and surprisingly grounded.

Carina Chocano
The Los Angeles Times
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GLORIA BELL: Last Day Thursday, April 25th

Watch Trailer Director: Sebastián Lelio
Cast: Julianne Moore, Rita Wilson, John Turturro

Gloria (Julianne Moore) is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold (John Turturro) on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity and family.

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Running Time: 102 min102 MIN
R Rated
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It's a remarkably enjoyable movie, downright cathartic in its presentation of a three-dimensional character.

Brian Tallerico
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THE AFTERMATH: Last Day Thursday, April 25th

Watch Trailer Director: James Kent
Writer(s): Rhidian Brook, Anna Waterhouse, Joe Shrapnel
Cast: Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke

Set in postwar Germany in 1946, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

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Running Time: 108 MIN108 MIN
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