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Science on Screen® Presents MOON CHILD with George Eberts & Tom O’Grady

Watch Trailer Director: Agustí Villaronga
Cast: Maribel Martín, Lisa Gerrard, Enrique Saldana

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Our Human Experience of the Sky

George Eberts and Tom O’Grady, instructors in Ohio University’s Physics & Astronomy Department, specialize in the human experience and view of the sky, including, the moon, eclipses, comets, and meteor showers. Following a lecture, they lead an exploration into the sky just a few days before the Summer Solstice.

About the film

In partnership with Cult Epics, AGFA presents a mystical fantasy film for adults, a unique gift to cinema and music fans alike boasting an unreleased soundtrack by Australian goth pioneers Dead Can Dance. Inspired by famed occultist Aleister Crowley’s novel, and spun from the mind of Agusti Villagronga, Moon Child (El Niño de la Luna) was considered revelatory at Cannes in 1989. Today, it is remastered for its first-ever theatrical release in the US.

After being adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraordinary 12-year-old David begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as Child of the Moon.

About the speakers

The film will be preceded by a lecture from the OU Physics & Astronomy Department’s George Eberts and Tom O’Grady. Eberts and O’Grady specialize in the human experience and view of the sky, including, the moon, eclipses, comets and meteor showers.

 

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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: 118 min118 MIN
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A spectacular film which mixes ice and fire, and which takes us where movies rarely go today: to a dream, to magic.

Le Monde
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Beat the Heat Teen Night: MOONRISE KINGDOM

Watch Trailer Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: ared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis

There is nothing like your first love. Wes Anderson’s acclaimed film, Moonrise Kingdom, is a coming-of-age story about young love, the thrill of youth, and the need for adventure. The year is 1965, and the residents of New Penzance, an island off the coast of New England, inhabit a community that seems untouched by some of the bad things going on in the rest of the world. Twelve-year-olds Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward) have fallen in love and decide to run away. But a violent storm is approaching the island, forcing a group of quirky adults (Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray) to mobilize a search party and find the youths before calamity strikes.

Athena Cinema of Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts will partner with the Department of Real Estate Management, Community Engagement and Economic Development to present the Athena Cinema 6th Annual Beat the Heat $2 Days Film Series and Fundraiser for Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Athens County! Every year, the summer series showcases children’s and family-friendly films at a discounted admission. Get out of the heat and come enjoy the cool air conditioning, delicious concessions, and movies that every child should see on the big screen!

To benefit Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Athens County, the price of admission to these screenings is a suggested minimum donation of $2 per ticket.

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Running Time: 94 minutes94 MIN
PG-13 Rated
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Anderson never loses his core themes - young love, the need to escape, the bind and bluster of family. His "Kingdom" may not be large, but it is perfectly appointed.

Tom Long
Detroit News
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Sponsored by Ohio University, Athens Area Chamber of Commerce, Athens County Children Services, Athens County Public Libraries, Athens Prosecutor’s Office, Ohio University Credit Union

Beat the Heat: THE DARK CRYSTAL

Watch Trailer Director: Jim Henson, Frank Oz
Cast: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Kathryn Mullen, Dave Goelz

From the mind that brought us Labyrinth and The Muppet Movie, comes the fan favorite — Dark Crystal, a high fantasy adventure film. Jen (Stephen Garlick), raised by the noble race called the Mystics, has been told that he is the last survivor of his own race, the Gelflings. He sets out to try to find a shard of the dark crystal, a powerful gem that once provided balance to the universe. After the crystal was broken, the evil Skeksis used sinister means to gain control. Jen believes that he can repair the dark crystal and bring peace back to the world if he can only find the remaining shard.

Athena Cinema of Ohio University’s College of Fine Arts will partner with the Department of Real Estate Management, Community Engagement and Economic Development to present the Athena Cinema 6th Annual Beat the Heat $2 Days Film Series and Fundraiser for Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Athens County! Every year, the summer series showcases children’s and family-friendly films at a discounted admission. Get out of the heat and come enjoy the cool air conditioning, delicious concessions, and movies that every child should see on the big screen!

To benefit Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Athens County, the price of admission to these screenings is a suggested minimum donation of $2 per ticket.

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN
PG Rated
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The Dark Crystal is well and truly a classic of its time, and it's a classic that's most certainly stood the test of time

Andrew Pollard
Starbust
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Sponsored by Ohio University, Athens Area Chamber of Commerce, Athens County Children Services, Athens County Public Libraries, Athens Prosecutor’s Office, Ohio University Credit Union

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA following Under the Elms

Director: Lon Chaney Jr, Rupert Julian, Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry

In collaboration with the 2018 UNDER THE ELMS concert series, the Athena Cinema presents a FREE community screening of the 1925 silent film classic “The Phantom of the Opera”. 

At 7:00 UNDER THE ELMS presents “Music of the Night”: Music from stage and screen with John Schlabach and Joshua Nightingale, trumpet. College Green (Memorial Auditorium if inclement weather).

At 8:00 The Athena Cinema Presents Lon Chaney’s 1925 “Phantom of the Opera” with live musical accompaniment. Free admission, tickets are required and may be secured in advance or day of show.

In this silent horror classic, aspiring young opera singer Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) discovers that she has a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead performer. This enigmatic masked presence is Erik, also known as the Phantom (Lon Chaney), a horribly disfigured recluse who lives underneath the Paris Opera House. When the Phantom takes Christine prisoner and demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), sets out to rescue her.

ABOUT THE MUSICIAN

Sean Parsons is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger and educator. Originally from Illinois, Sean holds a Bachelor’s degree in music composition from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Master’s degree in jazz studies from DePaul University, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois. Prior to his appointment at Ohio University, Sean has held faculty positions at Marshall University and Illinois Wesleyan University. He is in demand as a performer and clinician nationwide. Sean has been invited to direct several All-State and district big bands, combos, and vocal jazz ensembles and has shared the stage with many of the most notable musicians in jazz including Clark Terry, James Moody, Jon Faddis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Steve Turre, and Randy Brecker. Additionally, he has regularly performed with and arranged for Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr., winner of the 2011 America’s Got Talent competition.

Sean serves on the Athens City School Board and as the organist for St. Paul Episcopal Church in Parkersburg, WV. He lives with his wife Jen who is the Director of the Ohio Valley Museum of Discovery and his twin 9 year old children Coltrane and Emily. While too young to have careers, Coltrane aspires to be a computer scientist and Emily a scientist with her specilization to be determined. As of the time of writing this bio, she is making her case to study chameleons and hopes to convince her parents to allow her to have her own in the near future.

 

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Running Time: 93 minutes93 MIN
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Lon Chaney's performance as the hideous organist prowling the sewers beneath the Paris Opera is still a cornerstone of gothic horror.

J.R. Jones
Chicago Reader
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ON CHESIL BEACH

Watch Trailer Director: Dominic Cooke
Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Emily Watson, Samuel West

Adapted by Ian McEwan from his bestselling novel, the drama centers on a young couple of drastically different backgrounds in the summer of 1962. Following the pair through their idyllic courtship, the film explores sex and the societal pressure that can accompany physical intimacy, leading to an awkward and fateful wedding night. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough, Emily Watson, and Samuel West.

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Running Time: 110 minutes110 MIN
R Rated
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Ronan brings to this role something of the radiance and tart intelligence she showed in Brooklyn and Lady Bird.

Tom Shone
Sunday Times
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YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE: Last Day Thursday, May 17th

Watch Trailer Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Judith Roberts, Ekaterina Samsonov

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe’s nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.

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Running Time: 90 minutes90 MIN
R Rated
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With a jarring 11th-hour twist, [director Lynne] Ramsay leaves you pondering what menace lies beneath all those familiar sights and sounds.

Sara Stewart
New York Post
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Earth Day: LOVE AND BANANAS

Watch Trailer Director: Ashley Bell

Elephant rescues in Thailand are rare, unpredictable and often life threatening. After waiting 2.5 years, actor/director Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers led by world renowned Asian elephant conservationist and TIME Magazine’s Hero of Asia, Lek Chailert, embark on a daring mission 480 miles across Thailand to rescue Noi Na, a 70-year old partially blind trekking elephant and bring her to freedom.

African elephants are slaughtered for their ivory, but sadly the plight of the Asian Elephant has been completely overlooked even though they are the elephant we are most familiar with in zoos, circuses and elephant rides. L&B exposes the cruel secret that every Asian elephant has had to endure to become a service animal; a process knows as Pajan, aka The Crush Box. LOVE & BANANAS aims to ignite a new way of thinking about this species and shows what can be done to prevent the extinction of Asian elephants.

One night only! The Athena is the only theater in Ohio showing Love & Bananas on Earth Day. Admission $7.

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Running Time: 75 min75 MIN
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DEPARTURE

Watch Trailer Director: Shahriar Shafiani, Daniel Agüera, Dustin Jenkins, Semih Bedir
Cast: Abby Eiland, Yang Miller, Paris Perrault, Emily Keefe, Shelley Delaney

Set in a small town in Southeast Ohio, Departure tells the story of a day in the lives of four disillusioned members of a family as they’re forced to face what they have taken for granted. After Loretta, a late-thirties wife, mother, daughter and sister, goes missing, Robert, Anne, and Emily are left to deal with its ramifications. Will they get another chance at saving their family?

Showing two nights only! Admission $5

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Running Time: 82 min82 MIN
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LEAN ON PETE: Last Day Thursday, May 17th

Watch Trailer Director: Andrew Haigh
Cast: Steve Zahn, Travis Fimmel, Chloë Sevigny

Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray (Travis Fimmel), both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean On Pete. The horse’s gruff owner Del Montgomery (Steve Buscemi) and his seasoned jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny) help Charley fill the void of his father’s absence—until he discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, prompting him to take extreme measures to spare his new friend’s life. Charley and Pete head out into the great unknown, embarking on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a loving aunt Charley hasn’t seen in years. They experience adventure and heartbreak in equal measure, but never lose their irrepressible hope and resiliency as they pursue their dream of finding a place they can call home.

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Running Time: 121 minutes121 MIN
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This is not a movie about a boy and his horse. It is something far more grueling and merciless, and as the film reveals itself in an increasingly jaw-dropping series of vignettes, it's likely to leave you in tatters.

Jeffrey Bloomer
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THE DEATH OF STALIN: Last Day Thursday, May 3rd

Watch Trailer Director: Armando Iannucci
Cast: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor

The one-liners fly as fast as political fortunes fall in this uproarious, wickedly irreverent satire from Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop). Moscow, 1953: when tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin drops dead, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to be the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweeby Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), the wily Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), and the sadistic secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale). But as they bumble, brawl, and backstab their way to the top, just who is running the government? Combining palace intrigue with rapid-fire farce, this audacious comedy is a bitingly funny takedown of bureaucratic dysfunction performed to the hilt by a sparkling ensemble cast.

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Running Time: 107 min107 MIN
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It's often raucously hilarious, neatly crafted, sometimes visually striking, packed with excellent performances and abrasively profane dialogue. Most significant of all, it's true.

Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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