The Monuments Men

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with […]

STAND and REACT TO FILM Screening, April 7th: The Act of Killing

Anwar Congo and his friends have been dancing their way through musical numbers, twisting arms in film noir gangster scenes, and galloping across prairies as yodelling cowboys. Their foray into filmmaking is being celebrated in the media and debated on television, even though Anwar Congo and his friends are mass murderers. Medan, Indonesia. When the […]

Nymphomaniac: Volume II

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II picks up with the story of Joe’s adulthood, where her journey of self-discovery leads to darker complications. “Newcomer [Stacy] Martin and old-hand [Charlotte] Gainsbourg anchor these two films with performances you can’t take your eyes off.” – Dave Calhoun, Time Out

Nymphomaniac: Volume I

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME I is the story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who is discovered badly beaten in an alley by an older bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), who takes her into his home. As he tends to her wounds, she recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and young-adulthood (portrayed in flashback by newcomer […]

The Crash Reel: One Night Only April 8th

This eye-popping, yet intimate, story of U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce uses years of vérité footage to expose the potentially high price of participating in extreme- action sports. Training to compete against longtime rival Shaun White at the 2010 Winter Olympics, Kevin suffered massive head trauma from a 2009 accident in Park City, Utah. His […]

Stalingrad

STALINGRAD is an epic look at the battle that turned the tide of World War II. A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there.  

Child’s Pose with Guest Nancy Gerstman, co-founder and co-director of Zeitgeist Films

A sharply crafted family thriller, CHILD’S POSE pivots on a riveting performance by Gheorghiu (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU, BEYOND THE HILLS) as a steely, upper-class Bucharest architect determined to keep her 30-something deadbeat son out of jail after a deadly car crash. How far will she go […]

Enemy

Academy Award Nominee Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his PRISONERS director, Academy Award Nominee Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). Watching a movie on the […]

Still I Strive

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University is pleased to announce a screening of Still I Strive. Join us for a screening of this poignant film followed by a question and answer session with Mr. Adam Pfleghaar, writer, director and cinematographer. Still I Strive is a story of transcendence through compassion, unity and […]

Rice Field of Dreams

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University is pleased to announce the one night screening of Rice Field of Dreams, a film by Daron Ker. The screening will be followed by comments by Dr. Michael Pfahl, Assistant Professor of Sports Administration, and Q & A with Daron Ker, the film’s Executive Producer, Director […]