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Director: Laura Kissel
Writer(s): Laura Kissel
Language: English
Americans consume nearly 20 billion new items of clothing each year. Yet few of us know how our clothes are made, much less who produces them. COTTON ROAD follows the commodity of cotton from South Carolina farms to Chinese factories to illuminate the work and industrial processes in a global supply chain.
72 MIN
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Director: M. Sean Kaminsky
Cast: Bill McDorman, Vandana Shiva, Jeffrey Smith
Language: English
One of the world’s most precious resources is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving documentary illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds are as essential to life as the air we breathe or water we drink… but given far less attention.
82 MIN
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Director: Joe Swanberg
Writer(s): Joe Swanberg, Jake Johnson
Cast: Jake Johnson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Orlando Bloom
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim’s discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn’t want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
“Equal parts film noir, relationship drama, dark comedy and mood piece, Digging for Fire is a movie made by someone who clearly loves the art of movies.” -Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
“…an attractively shot, gracefully edited and, finally, emotionally satisfying mystery about the nature of marriage itself.” -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
“The film has an appealing honesty and an enjoyably low-key comic style.” -A.O. Scott, New York Times
85 MIN
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Director: Paul Weitz
Writer(s): Paul Weitz
Cast: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden
“A sublime match of performer and role.” – David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
“It gives a national treasure who never asked to become one, Lily Tomlin, a showcase to display everything she’s got as a performer, especially the offhand courage to not play at being likable.” – Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Daily News
*Closed Caption and Visual Impairment devices are available for this film.
79 MIN
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Director: Maarten van Rouveroy
Language: English
When a Greenpeace ship was seized at gunpoint by Russian special forces, the “Arctic 30” were thrust into headlines all over the world, facing up to 15 years in prison and finding themselves at the center of a bitter international dispute. Russia charged the crew, from 18 different countries, with piracy and hooliganism. But their resolve to try and stop oil drilling in the Arctic was never broken.
*Free admission provided by Environmental Studies Program at the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs, Alden Library, Athena Cinema, the College of Arts & Sciences Sustainability Studies and Food Studies Themes and Office of Sustainability at Ohio University.*
53 MIN
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Director: Grant Baldwin
Writer(s): Jenny Rustemeyer, Grant Baldwin
Cast: Grant Baldwin, Jenny Rustemeyer, Dana Gunders
Language: English
Jen and Grant dive into the issue of food waste from farm, through retail. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year, they pledge to survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away. But as Grant’s addictive personality turns full tilt towards food rescue, the ‘thrill of the find’ has unexpected consequences.
75 MIN
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Director: Christian Petzold
Writer(s): Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Language: German
A spellbinding mystery of identity, illusion, and deception unfolds against the turmoil of post-World War II Germany in the stunning new film from acclaimed director Christian Petzold (Barbara, Jerichow). Nelly (Nina Hoss), a German-Jewish nightclub singer, has survived a concentration camp, but with her face disfigured by a bullet wound. After undergoing reconstructive surgery, Nelly emerges with a new face, one similar but different enough that her former husband, Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), doesn’t recognize her. Rather than reveal herself, Nelly walks into a dangerous game of duplicity and disguise as she tries to figure out if the man she loves may have been the one who betrayed her to the Nazis. Evoking the shadows and haunted mood of post-war Berlin, Phoenix weaves a complex tale of a nation’s tragedy and a woman’s search for answers as it builds towards an unforgettable, heart-stopping climax.
“Provocative, profoundly moving and the acting is virtuosic.” -John Anderson, Newsday
“‘Phoenix’ is an intoxicating witches’ brew, equal parts melodrama and moral parable, that audaciously mixes diverse elements to compelling, disturbing effect.” -Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
“Beautiful and mysteriously powerful from beginning to end.” -Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
98 MIN
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Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Writer(s): M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan
A single mother finds that things in her family’s life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents.
Free preview screening. Tickets are first come, first serve.
94 MIN
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Director: Robert Wiene
Writer(s): Carl Mayer, Hans Janowitz
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Friedrich Feher
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (released in 1920) defined what it meant to be a horror movie. At a carnival in Germany, Francis (Friedrich Feher) and his friend Alan (Rudolf Lettinger) encounter the crazed Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss). The men see Caligari showing off his somnambulist, Cesare (Conrad Veidt), a hypnotized man who the doctor claims can see into the future. Shockingly, Cesare then predicts Alan’s death, and by morning his chilling prophecy has come true — making Cesare the prime suspect. However, is Cesare guilty, or is the doctor controlling him?
67 MIN
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Director: Marielle Heller
Writer(s): Phoebe Gloeckner, Marielle Heller
Cast: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, Kristen Wiig
Awards: Nominated for Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Work at Sundance
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother’s (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, “the handsomest man in the world,” Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl’s sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
“The first thing to know about The Diary of a Teenage Girl is that young British actress (Bel) Powley is staggeringly good in it.” -Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine
“A strikingly intimate look at a teenager’s sexual life in an outstanding debut film.” -Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
“Big summer action movies can be thrilling, but if you really want to feel your heart pounding out of your chest, try being a 15-year-old girl for 101 minutes.” -Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times
102 MIN
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