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MRS. DALLOWAY on “Bloomsday”

Viewing: June 16,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Marleen Gorris
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox

Join us Monday, June 16th at 7:00 p.m. to celebrate the life of Ohio U Professor of English Dr. Carey Snyder – a devoted scholar and passionate fan of the works of author Virginia Woolf – with a special screening of the film adaptation of Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required*

*Tickets can be claimed in-person in our lobby during normal business hours leading up to and on the evening of the event.

Special Cocktail: TBD

All who attend are encouraged to dress up in “Roaring 20’s” attire

About the film

Adapted from the 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf — considered one of the great works of modernist literature — Mrs. Dalloway examines a day in the life of the title character as she sets about planning a party in 1920’s London. The novel’s demonstration of the way that memory and interiority insert themselves into our everyday experience was an aesthetic leap forward, and the film faithfully captures the complexities and nuances of Woolf’s literary masterpiece.
This critically acclaimed drama stars Vanessa Redgrave and Natascha McElhone.

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Running Time: 97 MIN97 MIN
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Monday 06/167:00
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Rainbow Connections: RUSTIN

Viewing: June 18,2025

Watch Trailer Director: George C. Wolfe
Cast: Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Jeffrey Wright, Audra McDonald
Awards: Golden Globe - Best Actor (nom)

Join us on Wednesday, June 18th at 7:00 p.m. as our Rainbow Connections Pride Series features a film that examines the life of a seminal activist for civil rights and LGBTQ empowerment.

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

Specialty Cocktail: TBD

About the film

In the 1960’s, a time of social upheaval and awakening, openly-gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin has joined the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King to further the cause of racial equality in the United States. Rustin compels King to lead a protest ahead of that year’s Democratic National Convention; however, the move puts him at odds with other powerful members of the movement who try to undermine Dr. King’s popularity with a smear campaign alleging a homosexual relationship between the two men. Rustin, as a result, is forced to resign from his position with King’s Southern Christian Leadership conference. Not to be deterred, however, Rustin remains active in the cause and ultimately is given the responsibility for organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and maintaining his role (and reputation) as a crucial voice of one of America’s most important social movements.

Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Euphoria), Chris Rock, and Jeffrey Wright star in this excellent biopic that sheds new light on an important activist who stood not just for gay rights, but for equality for all.

Check out the rest of our Rainbow Connections Pride Series line-up

Special thanks to the following organizations for sponsoring this series: College of Health Sciences and Professions and The City of Athens

 

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Running Time: 106 MIN106 MIN
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Wednesday 06/187:00
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Rainbow Connections: THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT

Viewing: June 25,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Stephan Elliott
Cast: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pierce, Bill Hunter
Awards: Academy Award - Best Costume Design

Join us Wednesday, June 25th at 7:00 p.m. for the final film in our Rainbow Connections Pride Series…it’ll be a cinematic adventure you won’t forget!

Admission is FREE – Tickets are required

Specialty Cocktail: TBD

About the film

Having accepted an invitation to perform at a casino in Alice Springs, two drag queens and a transgender woman travel through the remote Australian Outback in a silver tour bus they christen “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”. Along the way, the trio encounter a vast array of strange  characters who inhabit the open landscape through which they are travelling – some of whom accept them as they are and some who don’t. Nevertheless, after many trials and tribulations, they reach the end of their journey having learned many things about themselves and the world around them.

Starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pierce, and Terence Stamp, this engaging and fun-spirited road movie is loosely based on the lives of three real-life drag queens, won an Oscar for costume design, and has become a revered example of the off-beat Australian cinematic tradition.

Check out the rest of our Rainbow Connections Pride Series line-up

Special thanks to the following organizations for sponsoring this series: College of Health Sciences and Professions and The City of Athens

 

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Running Time: 104 MIN104 MIN
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HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS – One Night Only!

Viewing: June 27,2025

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Join us Friday, June 27th at 7:00 p.m. for a special one-night-only screening of the classic Outlaw Country music documentary Heartworn Highways – back in theaters for a limited time to celebrate its 50th anniversary!

Admission $8

About the film

In the mid-‘70s, filmmaker James Szalapski documented the then-nascent country music movement that would become known as “outlaw country.” Inspired, in part, by newly-long-haired Willie Nelson’s embrace of hippie attitudes and audiences, a younger generation of artists including Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Steve Earle and Guy Clark popularized and developed the outlaw sound. It borrowed from rock, folk and bluegrass, with an edge that was missing from mainstream Nashville country. This newly-restored documentary includes rarely-captured performances of the aforementioned musicians as they perfected this then-new style and helped change the course of country music history.

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Running Time: 92 MIN92 MIN
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Beat the Heat: THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE

Viewing: June 28,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Peter Browngardt

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck – two of the biggest stars of the great Golden Age of Cartoons – make their feature film debut in a new animated sci-fi comedy…The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie!

While working at a bubblegum factory, the two wacky ‘toons inadvertently stumble upon a devious plot wherein an alien civilization plans to invade and conquer the Earth using mind control. Enlisting the help of Petunia Pig, Porky and Daffy take it upon themselves to thwart this nefarious scheme – as long as they can keep from driving one another crazy in the meantime.

Never before has there been a feature film starring the classic Looney Tunes characters, so this lovingly-crafted, hilarious film by director Peter Browngardt is not just a historical first, but is also full of first-class laughs!

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Running Time: 91 MIN91 MIN
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Saturday 06/283:00
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Beat the Heat: FLOW

Viewing: July 12,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Gints Zilbalodis

After its home is destroyed by a cataclysmic flood, a solitary black cat sets off on a journey to find dry land. Along the way, Cat meets several other animals in the same predicament – a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog – and the little group bands together to continue the quest. They find a small boat, and, by learning the importance of courage, trust, and reliance on one another, they attempt to navigate the uncharted waters of an inundated world and, if lucky, find a new place to call home.

Already selected to compete for an Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Latvian director Gint Zilbalodis’s Flow is being called one of the best (non-Disney) animated films of recent memory.

 

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Running Time: 85 MIN85 MIN
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Beat the Heat: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT

Viewing: July 19,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Mel Blanc
Awards: Oscar - Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Special Achievement Award

Eddie Valiant is a down-and-out gumshoe in late-1940’s Hollywood who gets entwined in a case that is sure to test what he’s made of. When a big-shot cartoon producer hires Valiant to dig up some dirt on Jessica, the the seemingly-unfaithful “toon” bombshell spouse of cartoon superstar Roger Rabbit, the private eye travels to “Toontown” to sniff out the goings-on of a rival studio exec (and the guy who happens to run Toontown itself). Valiant goes to see Jessica perform her famously sultry crooning act and seems to catch her in the act of seducing the rival exec; however, the man is murdered the following day and Roger Rabbit becomes Suspect No. 1. Valiant has his doubts about Rabbit’s guilt and ends up helping him get to the bottom of this strange set of circumstances. This puts the two at odds with Judge Doom – the chief justice of Toontown – who might just be the lynchpin of what starts to look more and more like a frame job!

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Running Time: 104 MIN104 MIN
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Beat the Heat: THE RUGRATS MOVIE

Viewing: July 26,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Norton Virgien, Igor Kovalyov

Little Tommy Pickles’ new baby brother gets born early…so early, in fact, that Tommy hasn’t had the chance to figure out how he’ll deal with no longer being the apple of his parents’ eyes. Making matters worse is the fact that the new tyke is kind of a pain to have at home. So, Tommy and his friends hatch a plan to take the baby back to the hospital; however, the plan goes awry and the gang lose the babe in the woods. It’s now up to Tommy to find his kid brother and get him back home where he actually belongs, having hijinks and adventures along the way!

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Running Time: 79 MIN79 MIN
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Saturday 07/263:00
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Beat the Heat: ERNEST & CELESTINE

Viewing: August 02,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Writer(s): Daniel Pennac
Awards: Oscar - Best Animated Feature (nom)

In the orphanage underground where she lives, Celestine, a young mouse, has been taught that bears are nasty and evil…not the kind of folks one should associate with. As she prepares to follow the typical rodent trajectory of becoming a dentist, Celestine (who’d much rather be an artist) is tasked with stealthily venturing to the outside world where she must collect the lost baby teeth of bear cubs and bring them back for study. On one such outing, she is discovered by a family of bears and chased into the outside world. She spends a tense night of fear in a trash can and meets Ernest, a unique bear who might just change her ideas about how well mice and bears can get along.

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Running Time: 80 MIN80 MIN
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Beat the Heat: SONG OF THE SEA

Viewing: August 09,2025

Watch Trailer Director: Tomm Moore
Awards: Osacr - Best Animated Feature (nom)

Song of the Sea, the second film in Tomm Moore’s “Irish Folklore” trilogy, is the story of a young Irish boy named Ben who learns that his mute sister Saoirse is actually a “selkie” — a mythological creature that can shapeshift from human form to that of a seal. The two children are the son and daughter of a lighthouse keeper’s wife who disappeared after giving birth to the girl and is presumed to have died. Ben has always believed that Saoirse was at fault for their mother’s death and is resentful; however, when the duo run away from their Granny’s house to return to their lighthouse home, they have an adventure beyond their wildest imaginations: Saoirse is tasked with using her magical power of song to save all the world’s mythological beings from the evil witch Macha, and, in the process, restore the wholeness of her family’s broken home.

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This series is made possible thanks to support from the following sponsors: Athens County Children Services, Southeastern Ohio Treatment Foster Care Network, Ohio University Credit Union, and Athens Area Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

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Running Time: 93 MIN93 MIN
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Saturday 08/093:00
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