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Pre Block Party Double Feature: Jordan Peele’s GET OUT and US

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Join us the night before Athens Halloween Block Party for a terrifying double feature.

The first two features written and directed by Jordan Peele have been knockouts: intelligent, terrifying, and a ton of fun.

Back-to-back showings of Get Out and Us at the Athena this October will give you the perfect chance to introduce your friends to some of the best horror films of the decade. And if you have seen them, you’ll get a well-deserved chance to pick up on all the clues and hidden meanings you completely missed the last time you watched (hint: there are A LOT.)

Get Out

Now that Chris and his girlfriend, Rose, have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy and Dean. At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined.

Us

Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.

Admission is $10 and includes both films.

*Free Student Admission*

Thanks to the Multicultural Center, Black Student Cultural Programming Board, and School of Film there are a limited number of free student tickets available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Students must get tickets in-person at the theater and present OU ID to get passes. Limit of one ticket per student ID.

Runtime for event is 240 minutes and includes a 15 minute intermission.

 

 

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RED JOAN: Last Day Thursday, June 6th

Watch Trailer Director: Trevor Nunn
Writer(s): Lindsay Shapero
Cast: Judi Dench, Tom Hughes, Sophie Cookson

Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information—including details on the building of the atomic bomb—to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging deep-seated sexism; her tumultuous love affair with a dashing political radical (Tom Hughes); and the devastation of World War II, which inspired her to risk everything in pursuit of peace. Based on a sensational true story, Red Joan vividly brings to life the conflicts—between patriotism and idealism, love and duty, courage and betrayal—of a woman who spent a lifetime being underestimated while quietly changing the course of history.

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Running Time: 110 MIN110 MIN
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Sustainability Series: SCIENCE FAIR

Watch Trailer Director: Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster
Writer(s): Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster
Awards: Festival Favorite at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival

Hailed by critics as “immensely likeable,” “brilliant and quirky” and an “ode to the teenage science geeks on who our future depends,” and winner of the audience award at Sundance and SXSW, National Geographic Documentary Films’ SCIENCE FAIR follows nine high school students from around the globe as they navigate rivalries, setbacks and, of course, hormones, on their journey to compete at The International Science and Engineering Fair. As 1,700 of the smartest, quirkiest teens from 78 different countries face off, only one will be named Best in Fair. The film, from Fusion Media and directed by the DuPont Award-winning and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaking team Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster, offers a front seat to the victories, defeats and motivations of an incredible group of young men and women who are on a path to change their lives, and the world, through science.

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Running Time: 90 MIN90 MIN
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HAIL SATAN?: Last Day Thursday, June 6th

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Chronicling the extraordinary rise of one of the most colorful and controversial religious movements in American history, Hail Satan? is an inspiring and entertaining new feature documentary from acclaimed director Penny Lane (Nuts!, Our Nixon). When media-savvy members of the Satanic Temple organize a series of public actions designed to advocate for religious freedom and challenge corrupt authority, they prove that with little more than a clever idea, a mischievous sense of humor, and a few rebellious friends, you can speak truth to power in some truly profound ways. As charming and funny as it is thought-provoking, Hail Satan? offers a timely look at a group of often misunderstood outsiders whose unwavering commitment to social and political justice has empowered thousands of people around the world.

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Running Time: 95 min95 MIN
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Wickedly funny, fascinating and niftily made, this crowd-pleaser will reign at festivals and prove, yet again, that the devil always has the best tunes.

Leslie Felperin
Hollywood Reporter
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AMAZING GRACE: Last Day Thursday, June 6th

Watch Trailer Director: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack
Cast: Aretha Franklin

A soul-stirring, foot-stomping, hand-raising experience, Amazing Grace is a long-lost documentary and concert film from 1972 featuring the incomparable Aretha Franklin singing Gospel songs while supported by members of her band and the Southern California Community Choir founded by gospel music legend, the Rev. James Cleveland.

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Running Time: 87 min87 MIN
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You get both the most lovely gaze a professional camera's ever laid upon Aretha Franklin and some of the mightiest singing she's ever laid on you.

Wesley Morris
The New York Times
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NOSFERATU with musical accompaniment by Sean Parsons

An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, NOSFERATU is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau.

Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau’s Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws — perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned.

Musical accompaniment will be performed live by Sean Parsons, whose previous silent film performances at the Athena include The Phantom of the Opera in June of 2018 and Buster Keaton’s The General in May of 2019.

Free Admission sponsored by OU Performing Arts.

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Running Time: 81 min81 MIN
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Nosferatu is not just a great horror movie. It’s a poem of horror, a symphony of dread, a film so rapt, mysterious and weirdly lovely it haunts the mind long after it’s over.

Michael Wimington
Chicago Tribune
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ASK DR. RUTH: Last Day Thursday, May 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Ryan White
Cast: Ruth K. Westheimer

Ask Dr. Ruth chronicles the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America’s most famous sex therapist. With her diminutive frame, thick German accent, and uninhibited approach to sex therapy and education, Dr. Ruth transformed the conversation around sexuality. As she approaches her 90th birthday and shows no signs of slowing down, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and unlikely path to a career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.

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Running Time: 100 MIN100 MIN
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Dads Weekend: MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL

Watch Trailer Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle

BRING OUT YOUR DAD!!

This November, The Athena Cinema continues its Family Weekend tradition honoring Monty Python with a mind-warping trip back to Camelot, remastered for the big screen. Don’t miss a chance to see one of the most bonkers and influential comedies of all time with your elderberry-smelling father!

Admission $8

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Running Time: 92 minutes92 MIN
PG Rated
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So unnecessarily gorgeous, there are moments where it feels like Tarkovsky with drag and farting.

Tom Huddleston
Time Out
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ONE NIGHT SCREENING OF “CURTIZ” WITH CAST AND CREW MEMBERS

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A narrative biopic about legendary director Michael Curtiz and his time spent on set filming Casablanca.


On November 4, 2019 starting at 7 pm, we will be screening the Hungarian feature film CURTIZ, a narrative biopic about legendary director Michael Curtiz and his time spent on set filming Casablanca. The movie is in English. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion and Q&A with the film’s screenwriter Zsuzsanna Bak and supporting actors Lili Bordán and József Gyabronka. They will discuss the controversial character at the heart of this film, and share the process of production, the festival run of the film (which has already won several prestigious awards including the Grand Prix at the Montréal World Film Festival) and plans for distribution and future collaborations..

As America prepares to enter WW2, Hungarian film director Michael Curtiz grapples with political intervention and a dysfunctional relationship with his estranged daughter, amidst the troubled production of Casablanca in 1942.

Director: Tamás Yvan Topolánszky

Producer: Claudia Sümeghy

Free admission. All are welcome! With the generous support of Arts for Ohio.

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Running Time: 98 MIN98 MIN
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HIGH LIFE: Last Day Thursday, May 16th

Watch Trailer Director: Claire Denis
Writer(s): Claire Denis
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin

Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system.The crew death-row inmates led by a doctor (Juliette Binoche) with sinister motives has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole. A staggering and primal film about love and intimacy, suffused with anguished memories of a lost Earth, High Life is a haunting, thrilling achievement from visionary director Claire Denis.

Winner of IndieWire Critics’ Poll Best Films Opening in 2019

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