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 […]

Blue Jasmine

After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. “A jaw-dropping work, what we go to the movies hoping to see, and we do. Blanchett is […]

Blackfish

While in captivity, Tilikum, a performing killer whale, has been responsible for the deaths of three people, including a top orca trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of capturing and confining such intelligent and sentient creatures. “Through the rueful voices of former trainers and whale experts, a narrative driven by disillusion and regret unfolds […]

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me

Coming to the Athena on Friday, September 6th. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a feature-length documentary film about the dismal commercial failure, subsequent massive critical acclaim, and enduring legacy of pop music’s greatest cult phenomenon, Big Star. “The story that writer-director Drew DeNicola and producer-director Olivia Mori reconstruct has the power to move […]

Hell Baby

HELL BABY, a comedy scripted by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Night at The Museum, Reno 911!: Miami) marks their co-directing debut. Jack (Rob Corddry) and Vanessa (Leslie Bibb) are an expectant couple that moves into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans — a house with a deadly demonic curse. Things soon spiral […]

Visiting Artist Lecture and Video Screening: Jerstin Crosby of Acid Rain Production

Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 7 PM The producer of Acid Rain Production, Jerstin Crosby presents a lecture on an ongoing public art project that uses cable access stations to bring experimental film and video works to the public.

Sustainability Series: NOTHING LIKE CHOCOLATE

Playing one night only as part of the Common Experience Project on Sustainability Series: Wednesday, September 18th at 7:00 Panel and audience discussion to follow screening NOTHING LIKE CHOCOLATE explores the possibilities of sustainable economies and resilience, telling the powerful story of Mott Green and the Grenada Chocolate Company he founded, a farmers’ and workers’ […]

Sustainability Series: WE ARE NOT GHOSTS

Playing one night only as part of the Common Experience Project on Sustainability Series: Wednesday, October 2nd at 7:00 Panel and audience discussion to follow screening Fifty years ago Detroit was booming with two million people living the American Dream. Then the auto industry crashed and so did the Motor City. Most moved away; whole […]

Sustainability Series: BIDDER 70

Playing one night only as part of the Common Experience Project on Sustainability Series: Wednesday, October 16th at 7:00 Panel and audience discussion to follow screening In 2008, as George W. Bush tried to gift the energy and mining industries thousands of acres of pristine Utah wilderness via a widely disputed federal auction, college student […]

The Hunt

Mads Mikkelsen (NBC’s Hannibal, A ROYAL AFFAIR, CASINO ROYALE) won the Best Actor Award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival for his penetrating portrayal of Lucas, a former school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce and the loss of his job. Just as things are starting to go […]