Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Aleshea Harris adapts her latest theater drama for the film screen in this intense, Tarantino-esque tale of revenge starring Vivica A. Fox, Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Sterling K Brown, and Janelle Monae!
Twin sisters with disfiguring burn scars are ordered by their bedridden mother to kill their abusive father who caused their scars. They must decide whether to seek vengeance or find mercy.
99 MIN
Lorne Michaels, the helmsman of Saturday Night Live’s half-century-plus reign as one of the funniest shows to hit television, is a legendary figure in not just televised media, but also Pop Culture at-large. This new documentary takes you behind the scenes of the hit show and Michaels’ life to show you how he came to be one of the most revered personalities in comedy. Featuring lots of archival footage, as well as interviews with past cast members like Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock and more, Lorne is a celebration of a man who has spent his life spreading laughter to billions of people around the world.
100 MIN
A24 Studios presents a new sci-fi horror film that adapts Kane “Pixels” Parson’s creepypasta web series for the big screen!
Renate Reinsve stars as a therapist who discovers a strange door in the basement of a furniture store and, upon entering, finds herself in a terrifying environment where reality and sur-reality collide in an otherworldly quest to find a missing patient.
105 MIN
Dan and Lisa are married (and miserable). In a last-ditch effort to salvage their sinking matrimonial ship, the couple opts to get away to a remote cabin in the woods in the hopes that some romantic sparks will start to fly again. However, what they don’t know about one another is the fact that each is secretly devising a plan to kill the other! As the plans-within-plans unfold, things start to go haywire as outsiders enter the picture and derail the couple’s plans. Carnage ensues, and Dan and Lisa may discover that it’s more important to survive their marriage rather than save it.
This action-comedy-thriller is the latest film from director (and member of The Lonely Island comedy troupe) Jorma Taccone and stars Jason Segel, Samara Weaving, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis.
105 MIN
Following triumphant Live in HD performances in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Verdi’s La Traviata, and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga co-stars as Amina’s fiancé, Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.
The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:10 p.m.
Admission $20 (Senior $18, Children $8)
OHIO Students Free with valid ID*
*Thanks to support from Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.
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195 MIN
Winner of the Camera d’Or Award at Cannes – given to the best “first” feature film – this tenderly-crafted film about the loss of childhood is sure to garner much praise for Iraqi writer/director Hasan Hadi!
Set in 1990’s Iraq, The President’s Cake follows 9-year-old Lamia who has been specially selected to bake a cake for The President’s birthday. As Lamia and some companions winds their way through the rough urban environment surrounding her – an environment of coarseness, suspicion, and turmoil – in a search for the basic elements to make the birthday cake, the challenges they face end up strengthening their sense of humanity in a world where there seems to be not much left.
105 MIN
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About the film
Elwood, a young African-American boy, is coming of age in Florida during the 1960’s Jim Crow era. Even in the midst of the tense racial attitudes that were dividing society at that time, Elwood’s future appears bright: he is awarded an opportunity to attend an HBCU’s honor’s program tuition-free. While hitchhiking to class, however, Elwood is picked up by a man driving a stolen car and the two are pulled over by the police. Elwood is unfairly arrested as an accomplice, and his hopeful trajectory through life is forever changed as he is transferred to a segregated reform school – The Nickel Academy – which is notorious for is brutal abuse of black students. He meets and befriends Turner, another student, and the two learn to rely on each other to make it through the tough environment even though their ideas about how black people should integrate into white society are very different.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead about the infamous “Dozier School”, and written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys uses the unique approach of presenting the visual narrative of the film through the first-person perspective – in other words, through the eyes of the protagonists. The film has also been nominated for and won several prestigious awards on the film festival circuit for its script, cinematography, and direction.
Special thanks to the following organizations for sponsoring this event: Ohio University Honor’s Tutorial College, Cutler’s Scholars, University Libraries, and the Ohio U English Department
140 MIN
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Director: Aldo Salvini
Cast: Haydee Cáceres, Bruno Balbuena, Sergio Velasco
This event will include a panel discussion
About the film
This inventive sci-fi/fantasy film – selected as Peru’s entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards in 2023 – is the story of “M”, an elderly homeless woman who drifts through life as a lonely shadow crossing the same geography every day. Her days are spent day-dreaming about her past life until a chance encounter with an ant prompts her to share her world with the tiny, insignificant insect…A world made of nostalgic memories and a dark presence that haunts her. Soon thereafter, a strange being – a “mechanical angel” – arrives to help her get her life on better footing. Evoking the sense of abandonment and mental anguish that homeless people suffer, Moon’s Heart is an extraordinarily touching film featuring an unforgettable performance by lead actress Haydeé Cáceres.
The Spanish Film Club series was made possible with the support of the OHIO School of International Studies and Languages (SISAL), Sigma Delta Pi (National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society), Pragda, SPAIN arts & culture, and the Secretary of State for Culture of Spain.
80 MIN
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Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Cast: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard
About the film
Three film students looking to make a documentary take a road trip to rural Maryland in order to investigate and interview residents about an alleged local myth centered on an entity known as “The Blair Witch”. Their efforts point them to a hermit who, fifty years ago, was reported to have kidnapped and murdered children deep in the forest. Beyond just being a grim story, the students learn more about the dark and mysterious character of the woods – more murders, disappearances, strange occult figures…in essence, the locals believe the forest to be cursed. When curiosity gets the better of the trio, they set out to explore the woods and see for themselves what secrets lie among the trees. What they discover is a force more dark than they could ever imagine.
About the speaker
Travis Eskins is a graduate student in the Film Studies program at Ohio University. He was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, where he studied Film and English Literature at Marshall University. His work is focused on depictions of labor movements in film, especially those from the Appalachian region. He is currently teaching a course on films set in Appalachia. Travis will be discussing The Blair Witch Project’s influential role in modern film history and connecting it to the local legend of the Mothman through the concepts of Commemoration and Folklore-ization of actual events.
This series is sponsored by the Ohio Honors Program, University Libraries, College of Health Sciences and Professions, The Department of Social and Public Health, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, OU School of Film, and The Office of Signature Academic Experiences.
81 MIN
“Cells and Sunshine Laws: The Importance of Public Records to Innocence Work” with special guest speakers:
Laurese Glover, OIP Exoneree
Lorenzo Vasquez, OIP Exoneree
Kay Anderson, Executive Director of the Northwest Ohio Innocence Clinic
Pierce Reed Esq., Director of Policy and Engagement, Ohio Innocence Project
Joanna Sanchez, Esq., Staff Attorney, Exoneration Project
Tuesday, October 28th at 7:00 p.m.
Admission is FREE and open to the public – Tickets are required for entry*
*Tickets will be available to claim in-person in our lobby during normal business hours leading up to and on the evening of the event
Wrongful Conviction Day 2025 will be hosted by the OIP (Ohio Innocence Project), OIPU (Ohio Innocence Project University chapter) and the CLJC (Center for Law Justice and Culture). It will be featuring multiple guest speakers who will be traveling to Ohio University to share their experiences surrounding wrongful conviction, the effects that wrongful conviction and imprisonment have on those accused, and those close to the accused, and the work that organizations such as the OIP are doing to reverse and prevent instances of wrongful conviction from occurring in the State of Ohio.
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