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Holiday Film Series: ELF + a cappella Music by The Tempo Tantrums

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Join us Saturday, December 6th at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. for a fun holiday movie “yule” definitely not want to miss!

As an added treat, both screenings will include a pre-show performance of a cappella Christmas music by local choir “The Tempo Tantrums”

Admission is a canned or non-perishable food product, or a monetary donation to a local food charity.

About the Film

Although he is raised by Santa’s elves at the North Pole, it soon becomes clear that Buddy is not your average Santa’s little helper — at over 6ft tall, Buddy clearly has some human roots. When he learns the truth of his origins, Buddy goes in search of his human family, and his journey takes him to New York City where he not only meets his long-lost father, but also the girl of his dreams. Adjusting to life as a human in The Big Apple doesn’t exactly come easily for Buddy, especially considering that his new-found dad is a bit of a scrooge. However, Buddy will prove that he has what it takes to show everyone how to find the holiday spirit.

Will Farrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, and the late-great Bob Newhart star in this holiday classic directed by Jon Favreau — one of the funniest Christmas films of all time!

About the Tempo Tantrums

The Tempo Tantrums: A Treble Voiced A Cappella Group is an Ohio University treble a cappella group. This 18 member all-treble-voiced a cappella ensemble was founded in the Fall of 2007, and is based in Athens, Ohio. Auditions occur at the beginning of Fall semester, and you do NOT have to be a music major or be affiliated with the OU School of Music to try out. Their Mission Statement is “to bring together fresh, diverse, and musically talented young people while creating a fun and cohesive rehearsal environment, stressing democratic-style collaborations in order to prepare and share original a cappella arrangements of pop culture music.”

The Tempo Tantrum organization is open to all students currently enrolled at Ohio University.

 

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Member Appreciation Screening: SUNSET BOULEVARD

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Join us Friday, December 12th at 7:00 p.m. for a two-fold celebration of classic cinema as we honor both our fantastic group of Athena Members and the 75th anniversary of Sunset Boulevard!

FREE Admission for Athena Members + 1 guest / $8 admission for non-members – Tickets are required

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About the film

This year marks the 75th anniversary of one of the greatest films in cinema history: Billy Wilder’s film noir Sunset Boulevard. William Holden and Gloria Swanson star in this sordid tale about fame’s flickering flame. Down-and-out screenwriter Joe Gillis (Holden) is drawn into a web of intrigue by nearly-forgotten silent film star Norma Desmond (Swanson) who seeks to manipulate Gillis into writing a fresh script that will initiate her return to the big screen. As the pair get more involved in the project, it becomes clear to Gillis that Norma lives in a world of fantasy where her former fame is still at its apex even though the trappings of a lavish Hollywood lifestyle are now beyond her means. When Norma’s delusions cause her to fall in love with Gillis, things take a dark turn when she realizes that he may just be using her as much as she has sought to use him.

Nominated for 11 Academy Awards (and winning 3), and considered by many to be one of the greatest films of all time, Sunset Boulevard is the quintessential film noir — a story full of deceit, double-crossing, and, ultimately, death. In addition to Holden and Swanson, the excellent cast boasts solid performances by legendary actors Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, and Jack Warden; in addition to featuring cameo appearances by some of the era’s top Hollywood icons like director Cecile B. DeMille, gossip columnists Hedda Hopper and Sid Skolsky, and actor Buster Keaton.

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The Met: Live in HD: Umberto Giordano’s ANDREA CHÉNIER

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.

The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:30 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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Holiday Film Series: THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

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Join us Saturday, December 13th at 3:00 p.m. for a wonderful holiday film that’ll charm the “Dickens” out of you and your family!

Admission is a canned or non-perishable food product, or a monetary donation to a local food charity.

About the film

Jim Henson’s merry band of puppet-eers come together for an unforgettable, one-of-a-kind adaptation of what may be the quintessential Christmas tale: the timeless classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens! With a cast featuring Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and all your favorite Muppets (except Elmo), the film also stars Hollywood icon Michael Caine as Ebeneezer Scrooge.

A box office hit upon its release in 1992, The Muppet Christmas Carol was the first film to be produced after the passing of the legendary Muppets’ creator Jim Henson and was crucial in continuing the pop-cultural legacy of The Muppet franchise.

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Holiday Film Series: NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION

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Join us Saturday, December 20th at 3:00 p.m. for a cinematic Christmas vacation…Griswold-style!

Admission is a canned or non-perishable food product, or a monetary donation to a local food charity.

About the film

The Griswolds – Clark, Ellen, Audrey, and Rusty – are all set to celebrate Christmas with all the classic, Norman Rockwell-esque trimmings: a huge tree, a beautiful home covered in twinkling lights, a delicious holiday feast surrounded by family. However, things soon get wild and wacky in the way that only a National Lampoon’s movie can…after all, these are the Griswolds we’re talking about! When Clark’s big plans to surprise his family with a special Christmas present get derailed by a workplace misunderstanding, it’s up to his crazy Cousin Eddie to set things right and help everybody learn the true meaning of the holidays.

Written by John Hughes, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is one of those movies you can watch a thousand times and still laugh out loud! Starring Chevy Chase, Randy Quiad, Beverly D’Angelo, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Johnny Galecki, this classic holiday film is stuffed with more comedy gold than a Christmas turkey!

 

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The Met: Live in HD: Bellini’s I PURITANI

For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. This January, the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer—arrives in cinemas worldwide. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.

The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:50 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.

Click here to view the rest of the Met: Live in HD schedule

Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:

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MLK Week Screening: AIN’T NO BACK TO A MERRY-GO-ROUND with Dr. Russell Morrow

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Join us Monday, January 19th at 1:00 p.m. to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Week with a special event screening of a fantastic documentary that tells the story of one of the first interracial civil rights protests in American history!

Special thanks to RECA (Racial Equity Coalition, Athens) and NAACP Athens County for helping to make this screening possible!

Free Admission – Tickets are required

This event will include a post-film discussion with the audience facilitated by Intercultural Strategist and Educator Dr. Russell Morrow

About the film

One summer in 1960, five students from nearby HBCU Howard University in Washington, D.C. who were members of the Nonviolent Action Group opted to climb aboard the horses on the carousel at the Glen Echo Amusement Park — a carousel designated as “Whites Only” — in order to initiate a sit-in protest and gain recognition for the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Soon thereafter, folks from the surrounding communities, including many from nearby Jewish neighborhoods, joined the students and formed a picket line in support of their cause. The courageous act prompted counter-protests from the American Nazi Party and other proponents of segregation, in addition to gaining national attention in the media at the time. This little-known and now-almost-forgotten event, which preceded the famous March on Washington by two years, resulted in a reversal of Glen Echo Park’s policy of segregation and ultimately helped set off a ripple effect through the rest of America’s Civil Rights Movement that has since impacted the lives of countless others.

Using archival footage and voice-over narration from notable Hollywood actors like Jeffery Wright, Mandy Patinkin, and Dominique Thorne, Ain’t No Back to A Merry-Go-Round brilliantly tells the story of some of the individuals who played a role in the protests and how their actions demonstrate that the power to make positive social change is immensely stronger when we all work together.

 

This event is made possible by support from the following sponsors: RECA (Racial Equity Coalition Athens) and NAACP Athens County

Click here or scan the QR code below to make a donation to the Racial Equity Fund

 

 

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Enter the Kingdom: CARRIE

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Join us Tuesday, January 20th at 7:00 p.m. as we kick off our exciting new series Enter the Kingdom: A Retrospective of Stephen King Film Adaptations!

Admission $8

About the film

Carrie White has a complicated life. At sixteen, not only is she in the depths of adolescence, but she’s also the daughter of an abusive, religiously fanatic mother and is often bullied at school because of her naïveté. When she learns that she has the gift of telekinesis – the ability to control objects with one’s mind – she decides to get even with everyone who has tormented her.

Based on Stephen King’s first novel, this unforgettable film from director Brian De Palma was originally released in 1976, so this year will mark the 50th anniversary of this classic horror film! It was also the first film adaptation of King’s work (which now amounts to more than 100 movies and TV shows), so what better way to kick-off our Enter the Kingdom series..?!

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The Met: Live in HD: Mason Bates’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY

In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections designed by 59 Studio. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere-production, with baritone Andrzej Filończyk as the artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen.

The screening will begin at 12:55 p.m. and will conclude at approximately 4:00 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.

Click here to view the rest of the Met: Live in HD schedule

Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:

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OU School of Film: Winter Showcase

Join us Saturday, January 24th at 7:00 p.m. for a special event showcasing the work of students in the OHIO College of Fine Arts School of Film!

Admission is FREE and open to the Public – Tickets are required

The Ohio University School of Film is proud to present the annual Winter Showcase, featuring 20 original short films created by undergraduate and graduate film students.

The showcase highlights the work of student filmmakers in various stages of their academic careers as they refine their craft and expand their approaches to visual storytelling. Through experimentation with form, structure, and voice, students create films that are bold, imaginative, and emotionally resonant. These works reflect the development of their emerging artistic identities and a commitment to creative and personal expression.

The program features a mixture of narrative and experimental films that explore themes of friendship, love, loss, nostalgia, transition, beauty standards, and creative burnout. Many projects were created in collaboration with students from the School of Theater and members of the Ohio University and Athens communities.

Films and Filmmakers

Our Hero, Cadet – Directed by Cam Smith. Narrative. Runtime: 9 min

Synopsis: Little Miss Head-in-the-Clouds

 

 

 

Open Mic – Directed by Caden Layne. Experimental. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: This is about you.

 

 

 

Styrophome – Directed by Emmy Williams. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: An audio-visual experience tied to a feeling of opening up and harsh recovery.

 

 

 

Eva – Directed by Megan Young. Animation. Runtime: 1 min

Synopsis: My first mixed media animation project, portraying my dear friend Eva, surrounded by nature and colors.

 

 

 

Poser – Directed by Jack Nyerges. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: Understanding the end of a friendship while slipping into an unceasing cycle of nostalgia.

 

 

 

Élan Vital – Directed by Andrew Bowman. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: An exploration of light, movement and body.

 

 

 

Canon In D – Directed by Robin Oldaker. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: Reflection, growth, transition.

 

 

 

The Fly of Theseus – Directed by Zinn Rogers. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: If a fly eats a plant, does the fly become the plant..?

 

 

 

My Thumbs Are Not Green And Neither Are My Plants – Directed by Sydney Kalafut. Animation. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: Mourning the loss of the only plant I have ever loved.

 

 

Emotional Female – Directed by Becca Harlan. Experimental. Runtime: 2 min

Synopsis: An experimental portrait of how women express emotions and how societal expectations of beauty, femininity, aging, and performance shape the perception of these emotions across generations.

 

 

Medicated – Directed by Win Yoder. Experimental. Runtime: 2 min

Synopsis: A short movement-based expression about the battle of discovering who you are and the role of medication in that journey.

 

 

My Body Is A Constellation – Directed by Sophia Alleman. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: A cosmic exploration of self.

 

 

 

My Side of The Creek – Directed by Emily Kinney. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: The impressions of grief.

 

 

 

The Tape I Found in The Woods – Directed by Julian Fahl Matlack. Experimental. Runtime: 3 min

Synopsis: What’s up with all that abandoned infrastructure in Washington County..?

 

 

 

Deperson – Directed by Colin Wheeler. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: A guy opens up to his significant other while an unseen cameraman directs how his emotions should look.

 

 

 

DeerHunter Delta – Directed by Damario Thompson. Experimental. Runtime: 4 min

Synopsis: After being called crazy by everyone, a passionate man who hates deer posts a video online to try to make a movement against them.

 

 

Lipstick Manifesto – Stacy Pindell. Narrative. Runtime: 13 min

Synopsis: What do you think of lipstick..?

 

 

 

Burnout – Directed by Wes Donnelly. Experimental. Runtime: 5 min

Synopsis: A representation of the creative exhaustion I experienced this semester.

 

 

 

Uncle Jimmy – Directed by Alaa Al-Shameri. Narrative. Runtime: 24 min

Synopsis: In the shadow of a looming pandemic, a shared home becomes a closed world, where fear redraws boundaries, reality blurs, and two lives drift apart, revealing how easily protection can become punishment.

 

 

Reverie – Directed by M.J. Golzari. Narrative. Runtime: 25 min

Synopsis: In a remote cabin, a dying woodcarver confronts his grief as reflections, memories, and longing slowly collapse into one irreversible presence.

 

 

 

This event is made possible through the support of the Ohio University School of Film, the Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts, and Arts for Ohio

 

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