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CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?: Last Day Thursday, December 20th

In CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, Melissa McCarthy stars as Lee Israel, the best-selling celebrity biographer (and cat lover) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estée Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee found herself unable to get published because she had fallen out […]

WILDLIFE: Last Day Thursday, December 6th

Sensitive 16-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry–a housewife and golf pro in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job-and his sense of purpose he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his […]

BEAUTIFUL BOY: Last Day Thursday, December 13th

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

SUSPIRIA: Last Day November 22nd

From the director of Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, comes a nightmarish re-imagining of one of Italian cult horror’s true cinema classics. A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe’s artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will […]

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Sustainability Series: NIGHT OF SHORTS

Athena Cinema, Environmental Studies, and the Alden Library present the sixth year of the Sustainability Film Series, working in partnership with many sponsors. Our vision and goal are those of years past: to offer attendees the opportunity to acquire a deeper understanding of the current issues related to global environmental and sustainable challenges and solutions. […]

One Night Only: THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT

Lars von Trier’s THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT has its North American premiere Wednesday, November 28, with a special one-night-only show of the director’s cut—the same version that was shown at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and prompted both a 10-minute standing ovation and more than a few disturbed walkouts. USA in the 1970s. We […]

MID90s: Last Day November 22nd

Mid90s follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 90s-era LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

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SADIE with Director Megan Griffiths

Join us for a special, one night only screening of Megan Griffiths’ latest feature, Sadie, with writer/director and OU alum Megan Griffiths in-house for an introduction and a Q&A after the show!   Sadie, written and directed by Griffiths, is the story of a girl who will stop at nothing to preserve her father’s place […]

FREE SOLO: Last Day November 22nd

From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi (“MERU”) and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin comes National Geographic Documentary Film’s FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of the free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock… the 3,000ft El […]

INJECTION AND OUTRAGE

An Athens County mother-turned-activist is the subject of this new documentary produced by Ohio University student Winter Rey Wilson about the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing. “I grew up in Athens learning about a lot of very important environmental justice issues happening in my own community,” Wilson says in a press release, “injection well waste being […]