LANDLINE *Last Day Thursday*

The Manhattan of 1995: a land without cell phones, but abundant in CD listening stations, bar smoke, and family dysfunction. Enter the Jacobs. Eldest daughter Dana’s looming marriage to straight-laced Ben prompts a willful dive into her wild side, while her younger sister, Ali, is still in high school but leads a covert life of […]

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Masters Mix Tape: THE LAST WALTZ

Considered by the Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, and many other major outlets as the single greatest rock concert film of all time, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz is a musical goodbye. The documentary catches and preserves The Band’s final concert on Thanksgiving 1976 in San Francisco as they say farewell to their fans with the help of more than a few very special […]

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YEAH MAYBE NO

The Better Bystanders and the Campus Involvement Center presents Yeah Maybe No as part of the annual A Mile Together (to end Power-Based Personal Violence) event. Follow the Better Bystanders on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @OHIObystander. Want a bystander intervention workshop for your group, class, or club?  Email us at bystander@ohio.edu! Admission is FREE. After […]

THE MIDWIFE *Last Day Thursday*

Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire’s late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as […]

THE B-SIDE: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography * Lady Day Thursday*

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20×24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside […]

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Masters Mix Tape: THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

“See it in a theater… where you can’t get hurt,” The Decline of Western Civilization provides a no-holds barred look at the underground punk scene in the late 70s/early 80s. After its midnight release in 1981, the LAPD Chief of Police wrote a letter to director Penelope Spheeris, (who went on to direct two sequels as well as the cult classic […]

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Universal Premiere: HAPPY DEATH DAY

Blumhouse (Split, Get Out, Whiplash) produces an original and inventive rewinding thriller in Happy Death Day, in which a college student (Jessica Rothe, La La Land) relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer’s identity. Happy Death Day is directed by Christopher Landon (Paranormal […]

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Sustainability Series: TIDEWATER, RAINMAKERS OF NGANYI, & THE CALL FROM THE SEA

Tidewater Tidewater explores the challenge of sea level rise in Virginia and North Carolina, encompassing Hampton Roads, arguably the region whose vulnerability most affects our overall national security. An area rich in diversity and historical significance, it is the second most vulnerable community in the U.S. to sea level rise, after New Orleans. Tidewater will […]

WIND RIVER

Wind River is a chilling thriller that follows a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past (Jeremy Renner) to investigate the murder of a local girl on a remote Native American Reservation in the hopes of solving her mysterious death. Written and […]

Food on Film: BUGS

  Series Description: What’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner are universal questions, and what’s on your plate reveals much about your culture and society. The Food on Film series serves up films that highlight not only the cuisines of different countries but also ways in which the food we eat tells the stories of our […]