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Sustainability Series: APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION

Watch Trailer Director: Michael Dorgan

The palm oil industry has papered over vast swathes of the planet, much of it valuable and ecologically diverse. Forty million tons are produced annually, and it can be found in 50% of all packaged foods. Traveling from Cameroon, to Guatemala, to Colombia the film investigates what has catalyzed this new industry and the social and environmental impact of its exponential growth. Palm oil has dominated the environmental press in recent years, amid claims of deforestation and the detrimental effects of monoculture. Michael Dorgan set out to investigate these claims.

Sponsored by Athens Impact Socially Responsible Investments and Arts and Sciences Sustainability Theme

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Running Time: 60 min60 MIN
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Voices: JOAN JETT: BAD REPUTATION

Watch Trailer Director: Kevin Kerslake
Cast: Joan Jett, Billie Joe Armstrong, Kenny Laguna

Joan Jett is so much more than “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.” It’s true, she became mega-famous from the number-one hit, and that fame intensified with the music video’s endless play on MTV. But that staple of popularity can’t properly define a musician. Jett put her hard work in long before the fame, ripping it up onstage as the backbone of the hard-rock legends The Runaways, influencing many musicians-both her cohort of punk rockers and generations of younger bands-with her no-bullshit style. Bad Reputation gives you a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning ’70s punk scene, and their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage. The theme is clear: even though people tried to define Jett and keep her stuck to one hit, she never compromised. She will kick your ass, and you’ll love her all the more for it.

Admission $5. Sponsored by OU Performing Arts. Part of Women History Month’s VOICES Series.

 

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Running Time: 95 minutes95 MIN
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From Jett's groundbreaking recordings with the Runaways to how she defied a narrow-minded media establishment, "Bad Reputation" is a case study in how a musician stays relevant.

Noel Murray
Los Angeles Times
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Science on Screen®: THE LADY VANISHES with Dr. Julie Suhr

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Preceding a free screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes will be a presentation from OU Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Julie A. Suhr, PhD. Join us for a discussion on the neuroscience behind unconsciousness, memory impairment, and memory distortion in Hitchcock’s mesmerizing thriller!

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In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood), traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster (Dame May Whitty), who then seems to disappear into thin air. The younger woman turns investigator and finds herself drawn into a complex web of mystery and high adventure. Also starring Michael Redgrave, The Lady Vanishes remains one of the great filmmaker’s purest delights.

About the speaker

Dr. Suhr’s area of specialty is clinical neuropsychology, which she views as an integration of clinical psychology and neuroscience, or as her students put it “keeping the psychology in neuropsychology.” Her research reflects this integration, and the importance of a good understanding of psychology in order to understand neuroscience.

One major topic of current research interest is the effect of psychological (non-neurological) variables on neuropsychological performance. Some of the psychological variables addressed in the laboratory include malingering, premorbid expectations for performance “diagnosis threat,” depression, and anxiety. Their effects on neuropsychological performance have been examined both in cognitively impaired persons (such as patients with dementia or head injury), in those who are neurologically normal but report cognitive problems (such as persons with chronic pain or students who suspect they have ADHD), or in those who may be worried about future cognitive decline (such as in the fear of Alzheimer’s seen in family members of patients with Alzheimer’s disease).

 

Presented as part of the 2019 National Week of Science on Screen.

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Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Science on Screen program pairs films with a short talk with a scientist or technology expert. The free Science on Screen events are fun and engaging, offering dynamic speakers an unexpected jumping point to teach their field of expertise in a way that is accessible to a diverse audience.

 

Free admission to this event is provided by Arts for OHIO.

 

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Running Time: 96 min96 MIN
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The Lady Vanishes exhibits Director Alfred Hitchcock, England's portly master of melodrama, at the top of his form.

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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS: Last Day Thursday, January 17th

Watch Trailer Director: Josie Rourke
Writer(s): Beau Willimon
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden

“Mary Queen of Scots” explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart. Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. But Scotland and England fall under the rule of the compelling Elizabeth I. Each young Queen beholds her “sister” in fear and fascination. Rivals in power and in love, and female regents in a masculine world, the two must decide how to play the game of marriage versus independence. Determined to rule as much more than a figurehead, Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth’s sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each court imperil both thrones–and change the course of history.

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Ronan is absolutely flawless.

Perri Nemiroff
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Voices: MARIA BY CALLAS

Watch Trailer Director: Tom Volf
Cast: Joyce DiDonato

Tom Volf’s MARIA BY CALLAS is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek/American opera singer completely in her own words. Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs-nearly all of which have never been shown to the public-the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New York City to become a glamorous international superstar and one of the greatest artists of all time. Assembling the material for the film took director Volf four years of painstaking research, which included personal outreach to dozens of Callas’s closest friends and associates, who allowed him to share their personal memorabilia in the film. When recordings of Callas’s voice aren’t available, Joyce DiDonato, one of contemporary opera’s biggest stars, reads her words.

Admission $5. Sponsored by OU Performing Arts. Part of Women History Month’s VOICES Series.

 

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The film is unfailingly sympathetic to the diva at its center. It accepts her status as a legend and does its best to enhance it.

Bob Mondello
NPR
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BURNING: Last Day Thursday, January 3rd

Watch Trailer Director: Chang-dong Lee
Cast: Yoo Ah-in, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun

BURNING tells the story of three individuals and a mysterious incident they experience. Jongsu bumps into an old friend, Haemi, on a part-time delivery job. Haemi asks Jongsu to take care of her cat while she leaves on a trip to Africa. When she returns, Haemi introduces Jongsu to Ben, a man she met in Africa. One day, Ben and Haemi pay Jongsu a visit, and Ben reveals his secret interests to Jongsu.

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Running Time: 148 minutes148 MIN
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A movie of shadows and light that gets at populist rage by way of incendiary metaphor.

Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Sustainability Series: AN EVENING WITH SEAN PEOPLES

Director: Sean Peoples

An evening with Sean Peoples and his work. Discussion on creating environmental documentaries covering:

Hurricane Maria -A compilation of three films

Broken Landscape, Confronting India’s Water-Energy Choke Point

In India’s resource-rich Meghalaya State, demand for coal is transforming the environment and the people who depend on it. Coal mine owners are prospering from booming production, but few laws regulate the dangerous and polluting practice known as “rat-hole” mining. Until now.

A new government tribunal recently banned all coal mining in the region, effectively shutting down the economy. Mine owners and workers staged protests, while people living downstream are struggling to cope with dead rivers that once provided their livelihoods, food, and drinking water. Nepalese migrants who crossed the border to work in the mines are stuck in the middle.

Broken Landscape examines the lives of those on the front lines of India’s water-energy choke point.

Scaling the Mountain: Protecting Forests for Families in Nepal

In the foothills of Nepal, extreme deforestation has pushed many rural communities onto marginal lands. In “Scaling the Mountain,” the second film in the Wilson Center’s “Healthy People, Healthy Environment” series, villagers in Jogimara and Naubise districts find that combining conservation efforts with reproductive health services has helped them to support their families and their communities more sustainably.

Sponsored by Ohio University Global Arts Festival

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Moms Weekend: THE PRINCESS BRIDE

Watch Trailer Director: Rob Reiner
Writer(s): William Goldman
Cast: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Andre the Giant

“Hello. My name Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

Your beloved classic THE PRINCESS BRIDE back on the big screen? “As you wish!” The Athena is screening the hilarious and memorable classic for OU Moms Weekend. Whether you are a newbie or you know every scene by heart, we welcome you to relive this fairytale classic. The adventures of Princess Buttercup and Westley are sure to delight audiences of all ages.

Robin Wright and Cary Elwes star in this fairytale adventure about a beautiful princess and the gallant hero who rescues her from an evil villain. Directed by Rob Reiner, it’s an enchanting classic the whole family will love!

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Running Time: 98 minutes98 MIN
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It's a lively, fun-loving, but nevertheless epic look at the nature of true love.

Rita Kempley
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Ohio Premiere: FARMER OF THE YEAR

Watch Trailer Director: Vince O'Connell, Kathy Swanson
Cast: Barry Corbin, Terry Kiser, Mackinlee Waddell

When Hap Anderson, a widowed 82 year old Minnesota farmer who thinks he’s still quite the ladies’ man sells his family farm he finds himself adrift and staring a short future in the face. Motivated by the possibility of showing up with an old flame and impressing his old army buddies, he sets out to attend his 65th WWII reunion in California with his unemployed and unreasonably self-confident and entitled granddaughter. Together, each with their own issues and conflicting agendas, they head west in a dilapidated Winnebago.

Encountering oddball tourist attractions and eccentric characters, they find themselves in seemingly impossible situations with only each other for support. From finding a place that will cash a Travelers Cheque to enjoying a cup of instant coffee, as the journey progresses so does their relationship and they begin to understand and appreciate each other as individuals while discovering that their issues are ageless and that family really matters.

With typical understated Midwestern humor and restraint, ‘Farmer of the Year’ delicately blends the comedy and drama of life.

Plays its Ohio premiere three days only April 16th – 18th! Q&As after each showing with directors and Ohio University School of Film alum, Vince O’Connell and Kathy Swanson. Come see a locally-produced independent film at the Athena for its limited release! Tickets are $6.50 for adults, $5.50 for seniors.

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Running Time: 103 min103 MIN
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Swanson's screenplay avoids sentimentality, achieving instead the kind of gentle, humanistic comedy we rarely see these days in movie theaters.

Margot Harrison
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Sustainability Series: THE GUARDIANS

Director: Ben Crosbie, Tessa Moran

In celebration of Earth Day!

The Guardians, a breathtaking documentary illuminates the delicate balance between humans and nature in Donaciano Ojeda, Mexico. This mountainous region is home to the ancestral lands of the local Indigenous community and is part of the protected Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.The film explores how these communities are working to protect the monarch butterfly. Filled with the sacred Oyamel tree, these towering firs are home to millions of monarchs who travel 3,000 miles across North America to hibernate.

Sponsored by Ohio University Office of Sustainability

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