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Salinger

For more than fifty years, the ever elusive author of The Catcher in the Rye has been the subject of a relentless stream of newspaper and magazine articles as well as several biographies. Yet all of these attempts have been hampered by a fundamental lack of access and by the persistent recycling of inaccurate information. […]

Austenland

Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret. Her obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, is ruining her love life: no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort […]

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Brought to life with exquisite detail and rich cinematography by Bradford Young (winner of the US Dramatic Cinematography Award at Sundance), the gritty landscape of 1970s Texas Hill Country is the backdrop for this mood-drenched collision of love and crime. After his pregnant wife (Rooney Mara) makes one false move during a bloody shootout, a […]

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’ […]