The Athena is excited to present the THE BOY AND THE HERON for Sibs Weekend 2024! About the film Set during WWII, THE BOY AND THE HERON tells the story of Mahito Maki, a young boy who loses his mother and is evacuated with his father from the city to the country to escape the ravages […]
Heroes In Color: BLADE
About the film Say hello to Blade. He’s equal parts human and vampire, with all the supernatural attributes of his blood-thirsty brethren but with none of their vulnerabilities. This makes him the ultimate vampire hunter! It’s a good thing too, because Los Angeles is set to become ground zero for the onset of war between […]
From the Hills and Hollers: KING COAL with Elaine McMillion Sheldon
About the film A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, KING COAL meditates on the complex history and future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and the myths it has created. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in a spectacularly beautiful and deeply moving immersion into […]
Classics & Cocktails: MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Join us on Friday, February 9th at 7pm for a wild cinematic ride – MIDNIGHT COWBOY! Prowl the streets of old New York while you sip on our specialty cocktail — the Kentucky Buck, made with West End Distillery Spiced Bourbon, lemon, sugar, ginger, Angostura bitters, seltzer. Admission is $8. Drink prices vary. About the […]
The Met: Live in HD: Bizet’s CARMEN
Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and […]
SALTBURN
Oliver is humbly struggling to fit in with the crowd at Oxford: He’s certainly intelligent enough, but he lacks a certain polish that characterizes the well-monied majority of students who attend the prestigious school. When he chances to make friends with Felix, an aristocratic fellow student, he’s invited to come spend the summer with Felix […]
CASSANDRO
Set in the 1980’s, Cassandro is a true-to-life dramatic account of Saúl Armendáriz, a gay man from El Paso, Texas who embarks on a career as a professional wrestler. Eventually, he opts to cross the border into Juárez where he becomes part of the “lucha libre” scene – Mexico’s unique style of high-flying, no-holds-barred wrestling. When he […]
NYAD
Nyad recounts the life of famed long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad who has spent a lifetime accomplishing incredible feats of athleticism, including an alleged successful attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage…at age 64! The movie stars Annette Benning as Nyad, with supporting roles filled by Jodi Foster and Rhys Ifans. Based on […]
DUMB MONEY
The “Game Stop short squeeze” of 2021 was one of the wildest financial rides in the modern history of the New York Stock Exchange: Never before had amateur traders been able to go head-to-head against the deep pockets of ultra-rich hedge funds to make (and, well, lose) a fortune in such a short timeframe. Dumb […]
MAESTRO
Bradley Cooper returns to being on both sides of the camera with Maestro, a film that explores the complex relationship between the celebrated conductor-and-composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia. Bernstein, who never publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, was known to have had several affairs throughout his life with both men and women. Nevertheless, the couple stayed […]
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