LOVING: Last Day Monday, January 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Jeff Nichols
Writer(s): Jeff Nichols
Cast: Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton
Awards: GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS - Best Actor (Drama), Best Actress (Drama)

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From acclaimed writer/director Jeff Nichols, Loving celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga), who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their hometown. Their civil rights case, Loving v. Virginia, went all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 1967 reaffirmed the very foundation of the right to marry – and their love story has become an inspiration to couples ever since.

“The real artistry of Loving… is in the quiet grace Negga and Edgerton bring to one of recent history’s most important romances.” -USA Today

“It doesn’t trumpet its importance obnoxiously, and it’s packed with performances of quiet power, with Negga as the breakout.” -BuzzFeed News

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Running Time: 123 min123 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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It doesn’t trumpet its importance obnoxiously, and it’s packed with performances of quiet power, with Negga as the breakout.

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Science on Screen: HIDDEN FIGURES with Dr. Sarah Wyatt

Watch Trailer Director: Theodore Melfi
Cast: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe

Science on Screen℠ is a project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Coolidge Corner Theater. The Science on Screen program pairs with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging and offer dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

Dr. Sarah Wyatt is a professor in Environmental and Plant Biology at Ohio University and a long time space enthusiast.  Her research focuses on plant responses to gravity, and in 2015, she was fortunate enough to fly one of her experiments aboard the International Space Station.

Click here for a movie details on HIDDEN FIGURES.

me-on-a-ledgeDr. Sarah Wyatt will speak at the Science on Screen event with “Hidden Figures”

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Running Time: 127 minutes127 MIN
PG Rated
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Inauguration Day: IDIOCRACY

Watch Trailer Director: Mike Judge
Writer(s): Mike Judge
Cast: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews

Private Joe Bowers (Wilson), the definition of “average American”, is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program, set 545 years in the future. He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he’s easily the most intelligent person alive.

“There’s a good chance that Judge’s smartly lowbrow Idiocracy will be mistaken for what it’s satirizing, but good satire always runs the risk — of being misunderestimated.”-The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin

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Running Time: 84 minutes84 MIN
R Rated

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THE CONSTITUTION: A Film By Ohio University Eminent Scholar, Rajko Grlić

Watch Trailer Director: Rajko Grlić
Writer(s): Ante Tomić, Rajko Grlić
Cast: Nebojša Glogovac, Dejan Aćimović, Ksenija Marinković
Awards: Winner of The Montreal World Film Festival’s Grand Prize of the Americas
Language: Croatian

Back by popular demand, please join us for a special three-day run of Rajko Grlić’s THE CONSTITUTION. Following a sold out premiere in November, the Athena has brought back the film for a limited engagement. The film could not be more timely.

Four very different people live in the same building but avoid each other because of differences in how they live their lives, what they believe in, and where they come from. They would probably never exchange a word, but misfortune pushes them towards each other. Their lives entangle in ways that profoundly challenge deep-held beliefs and prejudices surrounding material status, sexual orientation, nationality and religion.

Slowly, and even painfully, they begin to open up to each other and recognize the essential humanity each of them possesses.

Director Rajko Grlić, Ohio eminent scholar in film, was awarded The Montreal World Film Festival’s prestigious Grand Prize of the Americas, the top award of the festival, for his feature film The Constitution (Ustav Republike Hrvatske) which he directed and co-wrote with Ante Tomić.

“This immensely bold and brutally honest top-notch melodrama produced on a modest scale, which contains Grlic’s trademarks as dramatic conflict explored with intense emotional investment, seasoned with a refined sense of humor, skillfully deals with once again increasing intolerance in Croatia, yet its intelligent, deeply profound and insightful multilayered texture goes far beyond local, addressing an urgent global problem. Grlic’s polished and subtle directing evokes the best pieces of Douglas Sirk or Rainer Werner Fassbinder.” – FilmFestival.com

 

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN

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Francophone Studies Presents: Jacques Tati’s PLAYTIME

Watch Trailer Director: Jacques Tati France
Language: French

Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PlayTime. For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every inch of its superwide frame crammed with hilarity and inventiveness, PlayTime is a lasting record of a modern era tiptoeing on the edge of oblivion.

“Jacques Tati’s 1967 masterpiece still holds up as a feast of subtle sight gags, playful noise and, above all, visual wonders.” – Dave Calhoun, Time Out

“Tati’s despair is modulated by a sense of wonder.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker

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Running Time: 124124 MIN

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Food on Film: SUSTAINABLE

Watch Trailer Director: Matt Wechsler

America is facing a food crisis driven by profitability and a lack of consumer education. While the window to transforming our heartland continues to shrink, passionate individuals have emerged who provide hope that the health of our nation might still remain within our grasp. Sustainable is a documentary film that weaves together expert analysis of America’s food system with a powerful narrative of one extraordinary farmer who is determined to create a sustainable future for his community. In a region dominated by commodity crops, Marty Travis has managed to maintain a farming model that is both economically viable and environmentally safe. Through his example and various expert interviews, the film will explore options for reversing the issues facing America’s heartland.

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Running Time: 9696 MIN
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Sibs Weekend: HARRY POTTER MARATHON Part II: Books 5-8

All-day passes are $20, individual movie tickets are $7 each.

An all-day movie marathon, complete with trivia, costume contests, and other muggle fun!

ONE DAY ONLY:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4th

Schedule of Events:

12:00: Welcome to the Athena’s 2nd Official Harry Potter Marathon

12:05: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

2:40: Trivia Game Part I, Hosted by the OU HP Alliance

3:00: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

5:45: Trivia Part II

6:00: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT 1

8:25: Trivia Part III and Costume Contest Judging

9:00: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT 2

11:15: Final Trivia Winner Announced

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PATERSON

Watch Trailer Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer(s): Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani

Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey – they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer. He goes home to his wife, Laura. By contrast, Laura’s world is ever changing. New dreams come to her almost daily, each a different and inspired project. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her newfound ambitions; she champions his secret gift for poetry. The history and energy of the City of Paterson is a felt presence in the film and its simple structure unfolds over the course of a single week. The quiet triumphs and defeats of daily life are observed, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

“Poems slip across the screen like water in Paterson, Jim Jarmusch’s wonderful new dispatch from Jarmusch-land.” — Manohla Dargis, NY Times

“Adam Driver gives his loveliest, most lyrical performance in this Jim Jarmusch film-one of the year’s best-that takes its good, sweet time working its way into your mind and heart.” — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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Running Time: 118 minutes118 MIN
R Rated

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HUNTER GATHERER

Watch Trailer Director: Joshua Locy
Writer(s): Joshua Locy
Cast: Andre Royo, Jeannetta Arnette, Kellee Stewart

Ashley Douglas thinks everything should fall into place when he’s released after three years in prison. His friends should come to his welcome home party. (They don’t.) His girlfriend, Linda, should greet him with open arms and open legs. (She doesn’t.) So Ashley, a forty-something African-American, restarts his life with next to nothing: no friends, no lovers, no connections. He has is a bedroom in his mom’s house, a box of treasures he buried in his back yard, and a nostalgic and deeply ingrained need to be with Linda-his one, true love.  That is, until he meets a new friend, Jeremy, and things start to turn around.

“A sweet, shambling poem to the tenacity of hope and the sustaining power of friendship.” — Jeannette Catsoulis,  NY Times

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN

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Spring Sustainability Series: JUMBO WILD & MOVING THE GIANTS

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Jumbo Wild

Director: Nick Waggoner

For decades, First Nations, conservationists, backcountry skiers and snowboarders have fought a proposed large-scale ski resort deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. After 24 years of opposition, what more will it take to keep Jumbo wild for good? This film explores the value of protected wilderness and the ever-encroaching battle against development at all costs. Breathtaking beauty, filmed in British Columbia.

 

 

Moving the Giants

Director: Michael Ramsey

Moving the Giants, A Urgent Plan to Save the Planet tells the story of arborist David Milarch, as he helps California coast redwoods migrate northward to survive climate changes that threaten their current habitat. His is one path to promote “treequestration,” a mass movement to use one of nature’s most prolific methods to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce the amount of future climate change.

This event is sponsored by the Athena Cinema and Alden Library.

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