A Late Quartet

Following the lives of four longtime colleagues who play in a celebrated string quartet together. As the group begin their 25th season together, the eldest member (Walken) is diagnosed with early stages of Parkinson’s disease. Because he cannot perform to the best of his abilities, he would like to bow out of the quartet without […]

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First Ever Open Projector Night at the Athena

On Wednesday, November 28th at 7:00pm members of Ohio University’s Improv Troupe will host the first ever “OPEN PROJECTOR” night! This will be the coolest short film contest ever! Just bring in your film on the day of the event, between 6:00 and 6:30pm to see it projected on the big screen! An audience APPLAUSE-O-METER […]

Wuthering Heights

From Oscar winning director, Andrea Arnold comes a new take on the classic novel by Emily Bronte. An epic love story that spans childhood well into the young adult years, the film follows Heathcliff, a boy taken in by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Living in Earnshaw’s home, Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the […]

Seven Psychopaths

Three friends (Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, and Sam Rockwell) incur the wrath of a violent L.A. gangster (Woody Harrelson) by kidnapping his prized shih tzu in this black comedy from In Bruges director Martin McDonagh. Aspiring screenwriter Marty (Farrell) has a brilliant screenplay called Seven Psychopaths floating around in his head; unfortunately he’s usually to hungover to make any real […]

The Imposter

In 1994, a 13-year old boy disappears without a trace  from San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a small village in southern Spain with a story of kidnapping and horrifying memories. Although his family is overjoyed to bring him home, there are others […]

How to Survive a Plague

How To Survive A Plague is the untold story of the efforts that turned AIDS into a mostly manageable condition – and the improbable group of young men and women who, with no scientific training, infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, and helped identify promising new compounds, moving them through trials and into drugstores […]

Holy Motors

Over the course of a single day, protagonist Monsieur Oscar (Lavant), takes on 10 other guises, ranging from a gangster and aging millionaire to a trouble parent and a chaotic tramp, as he travels by limousine around Paris for a series of “appointments”.  Monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, and futuristic. Holy […]

How Ohio Pulled It Off

How Ohio Pulled It Off is a provocative documentary that provides evidence of election fraud in the United States. On election night 2004, U.S. citizens were glued to their television, impatiently waiting to discover which candidate wold claim 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. as their new home. Among fifty states, the decision ultimately came down to one: […]

Arbitrage

Arbitrage, the feature directorial debut of writer Nicholas Jarecki, is a taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty, and high finance. When we first meet New York hedge-fund magnate Robert Miller (Richard Gere) on the eve of his 60th birthday, he appears the very portrait of success in American business and family life. But […]

V/H/S

Special Athens screenings.  Playing through November 1st When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, […]