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Forgotten Man – Gregory La Cava: My Man Godfrey

A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler…but there’s more to Godfrey than meets the eye. “Gregory La Cava’s improvisational style received its highest critical acclaim for this 1936 film, a marginally Marxist exercise in class confusion during the Depression.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader “William Powell and Carole Lombard are pleasantly teamed […]

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Forgotten Man – George La Cava: Stage Door

A boardinghouse full of aspiring actresses and their ambitions, dreams and disappointments. “The entire cast is stellar, including little knowns Lucille Ball — “my big break”– Eve Arden, “real discovery” Andrea Leeds, Jack Carson, and a 14-year-old Ann Miller who lied about her age.” – Donald J. Levit, ReelTalk Movie Reviews “La Cava keeps it […]

Learning to Drive: Leaving the Athena Thursday, October 1st

Isabel Coixet’s slice-of-life comedy/drama Learning to Drive stars Patricia Clarkson as Wendy, a middle-ages book critic who is shattered when her husband Ted (Jake Weber) leaves her. In order to visit her daughter (Grace Gummer), who lives upstate, Wendy begins taking driving lessons from Darwan (Ben Kingsley) an American citizen originally from India who makes […]

SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE: Last Day Thursday, October 22nd

Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie star as two romantic failures whose years of serial infidelity and self-sabotage have led them to swear that their relationship will remain strictly platonic. But can love still bloom while you’re sleeping with other people? Writer/director Leslye Headland’s (Bachelorette) sexy romantic comedy co-stars Amanda Peet, Adam Scott, and Natasha Lyonne. […]

MEET THE PATELS: Last Day Thursday, October 22nd

A laugh-out-loud real life romantic comedy about Ravi Patel, an almost-30-year-old Indian-American who enters a love triangle between the woman of his dreams…and his parents. This hilarious and heartwarming film reveals how love is a family affair. “Often riotously funny.” -Andrew Barker, Variety “It’s a delight of a film, but it also examines problems of assimilation, […]

Sustainability Series: BROKEN LANDSCAPES & SLUDGE

BROKEN LANDSCAPES explores the effects of coal mining to communities and workers in India exposing migrant labor exploitation, water and environmental impacts. SLUDGE is a 2005 documentary film by Appalshop filmmaker Robert Salyer chronicling the Martin County Sludge Spill that was an accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000 when a coal sludge impoundment in […]

100 YEARS OF ATHENA SERIES

Click for more info on each of our upcoming film classics! DO THE RIGHT THING | Oct. 24 On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Directed by Spike Lee.     BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN | Nov. […]

KNOWING THE FUTURE SERIES

Admission is free to each show!   FANTASTIC VOYAGE | Oct. 27 A scientist is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream. CONTACT | Nov. 10 Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years […]

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The Apu Trilogy: APUR SANSAR (THE WORLD OF APU)

This final installment in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy, follows Apu’s life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer as he lives through poverty, and the unforeseen turn of events. “Director Satyajit Ray, with greater technical means, makes the truth of his relationships and the revelation of India the main trumps of the film. […]

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Food on Film: SPIRITED AWAY

During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. “Turns everything we know about the contemporary world on its head, and substitutes it with one in which spirits, monsters, magicians and animals mix it up in […]