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Sustainability Series: BITTER SEEDS

As industrial agriculture spreads around the world, many small-scale farmers are losing their land. Nowhere is the situation more desperate than in India, where every 30 minutes one farmer, deep in debt and unable to provide for its family, commits suicide. Explores the impact of genetically modified seeds, globalization,  and the loss of heritage seed […]

Stanley Kubrick Retrospective: 8 Weeks of Kubrick

For Spring Semester, the Athena Cinema is ushering in a retrospective of eight classic Stanley Kubrick Films. Don’t miss your chance to see these masterpieces on the big screen. Jan 27 & 28 : Paths of Glory Feb 3 & 4: Spartacus Feb 10 & 11: Clockwork Orange Feb 17 & 18: Barry Lyndon Feb […]

Kubrick Retrospective: Paths of Glory – Playing January 27 & 28

The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.

Kubrick Retrospective: Spartacus – Playing February 3 & 4

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.

Kubrick Retrospective: A Clockwork Orange – Playing February 10 & 11

Kubrick makes of Anthony Burgess’ celebrated novel a savage and satiric morality play centering on Alex (McDowell), who fights, robs, rapes and kills like any concsienceless predator. Captured and imprisoned, he undergoes treatment to condition him “safe”, a “clockwork orange” healthy and whole on the outside – but crippled within by reflex mechanisms beyond his […]

Kubrick Retrospective: Barry Lyndon – Playing February 17 & 18

A gentlemanly rogue travels the battlefields and parlors of 18th century Europe determined to make for himself the life of a nobleman through seduction, gambling and dueling in this methodical film showing the rhythm and life of the period.

Kubrick Retrospective: 2001: A Space Odyssey – Playing February 24 & 25

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is a countdown to tomorrow, a road map to human destiny, a quest for the infinite. To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millenia (via one of the most mind-blowing jump cuts ever conceived) into colonized space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman (Dullea) […]

Kubrick Retrospective: The Shining – Playing March 10 & 11

A married couple with a small son are employed to look after a resort hotel high in the Colorado mountains. As a result, they are the sole occupants during the long winter. The hotel manager warns them not to accept the job because of a tragedy that occurred during the winter of 1970.

Kubrick Retrospective: Full Metal Jacket – Playing March 17 & 18

The story of an 18-year-old marine recruit named Private Joker – from his carnage-and-machismo boot camp to his climactic involvement in the heavy fighting in Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.

Kubrick Retrospective: Eyes Wide Shut – Playing March 24 & 25

The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood’s most bankable celebrity couple. Cruise and Kidman play William and Alice Harford, a physician and a gallery manager who are wealthy, successful, and travel in a sophisticated social […]