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Sustainability Series: THE WOMAN WHO LOVES GIRAFFES

Watch Trailer Director: Alison Reid

In Celebration of World Wildlife Day March 3rd!

Dr. Anne Innis Dagg re-traces the steps of her groundbreaking 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild – and discovers a startling contrast between the world of giraffes she once knew and the one it has become. Weaving through the past and present, her harrowing journey gives us an intimate look into the factors that destroyed her career and the forces that brought her back.

Free admission and post-show discussion, as part of the Spring Sustainability Series.

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Running Time: 83 min83 MIN
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Alison Reid deserves high praise for fine storytelling, combining ecology and social-justice issues while focusing on a woman ahead of her times, whose ambitions were thwarted by institutional sexism.

Bruce DeMara
Toronto Star
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THE LIGHTHOUSE

Watch Trailer Director: Robert Eggers
Writer(s): Robert Eggers, Max Eggers
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe

From Robert Eggers, the visionary filmmaker behind modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

 

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Running Time: 110 MIN110 MIN
R Rated
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It leaves you dazed, terrified and elated, and it signals Eggers as one of the most exciting directors working today.

Joseph Walsh
Time Out
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(CANCELLED) The Met: Live in HD: Wagner’s DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

Watch Trailer Language: German

*This production has been cancelled and will no longer be airing at the Athena Cinema on March 14th.*

From the Metropolitan Opera:

“In light of the evolving coronavirus COVID-19 situation and in consultation with the office of the Mayor of New York City, Saturday’s performance of Der Fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera has been canceled. Therefore the scheduled Live in HD transmission has also been canceled. The Met is following the lead of the city, state, and federal elected officials, as well as the recommendations of the Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). We apologize for any inconvenience.”

Evgeny Nikitin takes the stage as the mysterious seafarer searching for salvation. Director François Girard, whose mesmerizing production of Parsifal recently wowed Met audiences, returns to stage Wagner’s eerie early masterwork.

Admission $18 (students & children $8)

OHIO Student: Free

Thanks to Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.

Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:

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Running Time: 139 MIN139 MIN
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Women Pioneers: SUFFRAGETTE

Watch Trailer Director: Sarah Gavron
Writer(s): Abi Morgan
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter

Maud (Carey Mulligan) is a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life.

Free admission, as part of our Women Pioneers Series, celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage.

Post-show discussion with OU’s Dr. Carey Snyder.

This spring, the Athena is proud to present four profound films celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. All shows feature intros and post-show talks, and all shows are free admission.

This series is sponsored by Ohio University Libraries, School of Film, Multicultural Center, Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Margaret Boyd Scholars, English Department, History Department, Women’s Center, and Arts for Ohio.

Click here for a full listing of events celebrating the centennial.

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Running Time: 106 minutes106 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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It's always compelling; you feel grateful, watching, that this story is being told at all.

Moira MacDonald
Seattle Times
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FANTASTIC FUNGI DAY

Watch Trailer Director: Louie Schwartzberg

“Fantastic Fungi,” the critically lauded and audience-loved documentary makes its return to The Athena Cinema for one night only in a worldwide streaming event. A simulcast featuring director Louie Schwartzberg, mycologist Paul Stamets and other special guests included.

Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg, is a consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence and solutions the fungi kingdom offer us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges.

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Running Time: 74 min74 MIN
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One of the year's most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing and yes, immensely entertaining triumphs.

Matt Fagerholm
RogerEbert.com
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JOKER: Last Day Thursday, November 14th

Watch Trailer Director: Todd Phillips
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz

Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Joker” stars Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, alongside Oscar winner Robert De Niro, and is directed, produced and co-written by Oscar nominee Todd Phillips.

“Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck (Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.

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Running Time: 122 min122 MIN
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This is a truly nightmarish vision of late-era capitalism - arguably the best social horror film since Get Out - and Joaquin Phoenix is magnetic in it.

Philip De Semlyen
Time Out
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WHERE’S MY ROY COHN?: Last Day Thursday, November 7th

Watch Trailer Director: Matt Tyrnauer

One of the most controversial and influential American men of the 20th Century, Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.

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Running Time: 97 min97 MIN
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"Where's My Roy Cohn?" makes it clear that his influence is still felt today, all the way to the White House.

Bill Goodykoontz
Arizona Republic
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(CANCELLED) The Met: Live in HD: Puccini’s TOSCA

Watch Trailer Language: Italian

*This production has been cancelled and will no longer be airing at the Athena Cinema.*

Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her 16th Live in HD transmission, taking on the soaring title diva of Puccini’s grand melodrama. Bertrand de Billy conducts Sir David McVicar’s evocative production, with tenor Brian Jagde as Tosca’s impassioned lover, Cavaradossi, and baritone Michael Volle as the sinister Scarpia.

Admission $18 (students & children $8)

OHIO Student: Free

Thanks to Arts for OHIO, we are able to offer a limited number of FREE student tickets available on first-come, first-serve basis. Must have valid student I.D.

Special thanks to George Weckman and the following supporters:

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Running Time: 177 MIN177 MIN
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JUDY

Watch Trailer Director: Rupert Goold
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Finn Wittrock

Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmth shine through. Even her dreams of love seem undimmed as she embarks on a whirlwind romance with Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. Featuring some of her best-known songs, the film celebrates the voice, the capacity for love, and the sheer pizzazz of “the world’s greatest entertainer.”

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Running Time: 118 min118 MIN
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Zellweger... subsumes herself completely in the role, without ever tipping over into some kind of gestural Judy drag.

Leah Greenblatt
Entertainment Weekly
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Women Pioneers: IRON JAWED ANGELS

Watch Trailer Director: Katja von Garnier
Writer(s): Sally Robinson, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, Raymond Singer, Jennifer Friedes
Cast: Hillary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Frances O'Connor, Angelica Hutson

Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) was an American feminist who risked her life to fight for women’s citizenship and the right to vote. She founded the separatist National Woman’s Party and wrote the first equal rights amendment to be presented before Congress. Together with social reformer Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), Paul struggled against conservative forces to pass the 19th amendment and led a well-publicized hunger strike, earning her activists the moniker,”the iron-jawed angels.”

Free admission, as part of our Women Pioneers Series, celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage.

This spring, the Athena is proud to present four profound films celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. All shows feature intros and post-show talks, and all shows are free admission.

This series is sponsored by Ohio University Libraries, School of Film, Multicultural Center, Black Student Cultural Programming Board, Margaret Boyd Scholars, English Department, History Department, Women’s Center, and Arts for Ohio.

Click here for a full listing of events celebrating the centennial.

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Running Time: 123 MIN123 MIN
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Iron Jawed Angels is an important history lesson told in a fresh, and blazing fashion.

Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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