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Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Judith Roberts, Ekaterina Samsonov
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe’s nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
90 MIN
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Director: Ashley Bell
Elephant rescues in Thailand are rare, unpredictable and often life threatening. After waiting 2.5 years, actor/director Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers led by world renowned Asian elephant conservationist and TIME Magazine’s Hero of Asia, Lek Chailert, embark on a daring mission 480 miles across Thailand to rescue Noi Na, a 70-year old partially blind trekking elephant and bring her to freedom.
African elephants are slaughtered for their ivory, but sadly the plight of the Asian Elephant has been completely overlooked even though they are the elephant we are most familiar with in zoos, circuses and elephant rides. L&B exposes the cruel secret that every Asian elephant has had to endure to become a service animal; a process knows as Pajan, aka The Crush Box. LOVE & BANANAS aims to ignite a new way of thinking about this species and shows what can be done to prevent the extinction of Asian elephants.
75 MIN
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Director: Shahriar Shafiani, Daniel Agüera, Dustin Jenkins, Semih Bedir
Cast: Abby Eiland, Yang Miller, Paris Perrault, Emily Keefe, Shelley Delaney
Set in a small town in Southeast Ohio, Departure tells the story of a day in the lives of four disillusioned members of a family as they’re forced to face what they have taken for granted. After Loretta, a late-thirties wife, mother, daughter and sister, goes missing, Robert, Anne, and Emily are left to deal with its ramifications. Will they get another chance at saving their family?
82 MIN
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Director: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Steve Zahn, Travis Fimmel, Chloë Sevigny
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray (Travis Fimmel), both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean On Pete. The horse’s gruff owner Del Montgomery (Steve Buscemi) and his seasoned jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny) help Charley fill the void of his father’s absence—until he discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, prompting him to take extreme measures to spare his new friend’s life. Charley and Pete head out into the great unknown, embarking on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a loving aunt Charley hasn’t seen in years. They experience adventure and heartbreak in equal measure, but never lose their irrepressible hope and resiliency as they pursue their dream of finding a place they can call home.
121 MIN
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Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor
The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweeby Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), the wily Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), and the sadistic secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale). But as they bumble, brawl, and backstab their way to the top, just who is running the government? Combining palace intrigue with rapid-fire farce, this audacious comedy is a bitingly funny takedown of bureaucratic dysfunction performed to the hilt by a sparkling ensemble cast.
107 MIN
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Director: Sally Potter
Cast: Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson
Janet hosts an intimate gathering of friends in her London home to celebrate her political ascension. After her acerbic best friend and others arrive, some with dramatic news to share, an announcement by Janet’s husband provokes a series of revelations. As the sophisticated soiree starts to unravel, a night that began with champagne soon ends up with arguments, shouting and a pointed gun.
Berta Cáceres, a social and environmental justice activist and 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, was murdered on March 3, 2016. An indigenous Lenca woman, Cáceres was the co-founder of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) and actively opposed dam and illegal logging projects in her native Honduras.
Her assassination is just one in a string of deadly attacks on environmental-human rights defenders in recent years. BERTA VIVE/BERTA LIVES is a film that remembers Cáceres’ legacy, documenting the life and death of one of the world’s most famous environmental activists in recent history.
The film will follow a 30-minute introduction from Bethany N. Bella, a Voinovich School Undergraduate Research Scholar who has followed the plight of environmental-human rights defenders for the last 2 years. She studies Feminist Political Ecology at Ohio University.
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Director: Greg Berlanti
Cast: Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp
Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life-changing. Directed by Greg Berlanti (Riverdale, The Flash, Supergirl), written by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger (This is Us), and based on Becky Albertalli’s acclaimed novel, LOVE, SIMON is a funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about the thrilling ride of finding yourself and falling in love.
110 MIN
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Director: Cory Finley
Cast: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin
Childhood friends Lily and Amanda reconnect in suburban Connecticut after years of growing apart. Lily has turned into a polished, upper-class teenager, with a fancy boarding school on her transcript and a coveted internship on her resume; Amanda has developed a sharp wit and her own particular attitude, but all in the process of becoming a social outcast. Though they initially seem completely at odds, the pair bond over Lily’s contempt for her oppressive stepfather, Mark, and as their friendship grows, they begin to bring out one another’s most destructive tendencies. Their ambitions lead them to hire a local hustler, Tim, and take matters into their own hands to set their lives straight.
90 MIN
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Director: Paul McGuigan
Writer(s): Matt Greenhalgh
Cast: Annette Bening, Stephen Graham, Jamie Bell
Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award (R)-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.
105 MIN
Southeast Ohio's Premier
Art House Theater
Est. 1915
