Archive of Shows from the Athena Cinema

	Dunia - Kiss Me Not on the Eyes Director: Jocelyn SaabRated Not RatedIn Arabic with English Subtitles After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explains to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meets Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women... This film was shown on Friday, March 5th 2010 View This Film
	Persepolis Director: Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane SatrapiRated PG-13This animated film, based on a graphic novel, is the poignant story of a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. It is through the eyes of precocious and outspoken nine-year old Marjane that we see a people’s hopes dashed as fundamentalists take power – forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. Clever and fearless, she outsmarts the “social guardians” and discovers punk. Yet when her uncle is senselessly executed and as bombs fall around Tehran in the Iran/Iraq war, the daily fear that permeates life in Iran is palpable. Persepolis... This film was shown on Friday, March 5th 2010 View This Film
	A Town Called Panic Director: Stephane Aubier and Vincent Pata Rated Not RatedIn French with English Subtitles Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to gift Horse with a homemade barbecue backfires when they accidentally buy 50 million bricks. Whoops! This sets off a perilously wacky chain of events as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe of pointy-headed (and dishonest!) creatures. Each speedy character is voiced—and... This film was shown on Friday, March 5th 2010 View This Film
	Terribly Happy Director: Henrik Ruben Genz Rated Not RatedIn Danish with English Subtitles Robert Hanson is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale. Robert’s big city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or understand the uncivilized, bizarre behavior displayed by the townspeople. Quickly spiraling downward into an intense fable reminiscent of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple and No Country for Old Men, Terribly Happy displays a unique,... This film was shown on Friday, March 5th 2010 View This Film
	Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Director: Werner Herzog Rated R Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker, and Xzibit In Werner Herzog’s new film Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Nicolas Cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs -- while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get... This film was shown on Friday, February 26th 2010 View This Film
	The Last Station Director: Michael Hoffman Rated R Starring Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Paul Giamatti, and Anne-Marie Duff After almost fifty years of marriage, the Countess Sofya, Leo Tolstoy’s devoted wife, passionate lover, muse and secretary—she’s copied out War and Peace six times…by hand!—suddenly finds her entire world turned upside down. In the name of his newly created religion, the great Russian novelist has renounced his noble title, his property and even his family... This film was shown on Friday, February 26th 2010 View This Film
	Police, Adjective Director: Corneliu Porumboiu Rated Not RatedIn Romanian with English Subtitles One of the most critically-acclaimed films of the year and a double prize winner at Cannes, POLICE, ADJECTIVE is the new whip-smart, dryly funny comedy from Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST). The film is Romania’s official entry to the 2009 Academy Awards. Cristi (Dragos Bucur) is a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is pressured to arrest a teenager who offers hash to classmates. Not wanting to ruin the life of a young man he considers merely irresponsible, Cristi must either... This film was shown on Friday, February 19th 2010 View This Film
	Three for Happiness Director: Rajko GrlicRated Not Rated Three For Happiness is a story of a man, driven by poverty and despair, who robs a shop with a plastic toy gun. After three years spent in prison he is released. On his way through Zagreb he meets two completely different women who are about to determine his fate. This marks the beginning of a contemporary melodrama about three love triangles entangled by emotions and money. It is a story of a fanatic who attempts to break loose from the inevitability of one’s life and times through love. Premiered and awarded by European film... This film was shown on Sunday, February 21st 2010 View This Film
	Dead Snow Director: Tommy Wirkola Rated Not RatedIn Norwegian with English Subtitles Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of undead Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die. It's Easter vacation, and what better way to spend the break than skiing down the isolated hills just outside of Øksfjord, Norway? After packing their cars with enough beer and ski equipment to ensure that a good time will be had by all, the students set out... This film was shown on Friday, February 19th 2010 View This Film
	Surprise Film Director: Rajko GrlicRated Not RatedGrlic will be screening a surprise film. Afterward there will be an open reception and panel discussion at Salaam at 21 W. Washington at 10pm. This film was shown on Thursday, February 18th 2010 View This Film
	Border Post (Karaula) Director: Rajko Grlic At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war. These are the last days of the country called Yugoslavia. Yet no one knew at the time. Daily routine of the army is disrupted by unusual circumstances. Frustrated and always drunk, lieutenant Safet Pasic feels a strange pain in his groins... This film was shown on Wednesday, February 17th 2010 View This Film
	Josephine Director: Rajko Grlic Josephine is the story of a man named Jan, a simple cheese-maker from a small, sleepy Bohemian town. The year is 1991 and passports are finally available to everyone. Jan tries to fulfill his father’s dream to go west in order to find a black woman who looks like Josephine Baker and spend a night with her. He arrives in Hamburg and after fulfilling his father’s dream Jan is ripped off by Spike, an American ex-actor and pimp. His passport is confiscated until he can pay his “debts” as a slave/cleaner in Spike’s bordello named... This film was shown on Tuesday, February 16th 2010 View This Film
	Charuga Director: Rajko GrlicRated Not Rated “When first planned, this spectacular film, which used 10,000 extras and over fifty locations, was to be a homage to director Grlic’s favorite adventure films like The Thief of Bagdad. But reality has a way of overtaking fantasies. Charuga, Grlic’s seventh feature, tells the true story of a 1920’s “Robin Hood,” a fanatic ex-soldier and Bolshevik who tried to bring the Revolution to Yugoslavia. He began by robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, but as with many self-styled revolutionaries, he soon began robbing from everyone and keeping it all for himself. His... This film was shown on Monday, February 15th 2010 View This Film
	In The Jaws of Life Director: Rajko GrlicRated Not Rated In The Jaws of Life won the critics award for the “Best Yugoslav Film 1984”. It also won “Golden Arenas” for director and composer, the audience award “Jelen” and four other acting awards at Pula Film Festival, and “Bronze Palm” at the Valencia Film Festival, Spain. It was first at the Yugoslav Box Office ’85. “A middle-aged woman filmmaker, a bit on the chubby side, with a rather confused personal life, is making a soap opera titled The Jaws of Life. It follows a... This film was shown on Sunday, February 14th 2010 View This Film
	The Damned United Director: Tom Hooper Rated R Starring Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Graham, and Peter McDonald Set in 1960’s and 1970’s England, The Damned United tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough’s doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie, and on the back of their most successful period ever as a football club, Leeds was perceived... This film was shown on Friday, February 12th 2010 View This Film
	A Single Man Director: Tom FordRated R Starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Nicholas Hoult Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, A Single Man, is the story of George Falconer, a 52 year old British college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim. George dwells on the past and cannot see his future as we follow him through a single day, where a series of events and encounters, ultimately leads him to decide if... This film was shown on Friday, February 5th 2010 View This Film
	That Summer of White Roses Director: Rajko GrlicRated Not Rated “Andrija is a friendly and somewhat simpleminded lifeguard in a sleepy Yugoslavian riverside resort during the final summer of the harrowing Nazi occupation. He spends his life in mock heroics, and waits for someone to drown. Life gets far more interesting for Andrija when he opens his home as a refuge for Ana, a young widow fleeing from the Germans. Ana has no papers, so when his friend Martin suggests that Andrija marry her for protection, he agrees to do that too. He’s afraid he’s going to lose his job, since no one ever seems to need his life saving assistance, when, ironically, he has to rescue a... This film was shown on Sunday, February 14th 2010 View This Film
	The Young Victoria Director: Jean-Marc ValleeRated PG Starring Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretschmann, and Mark Strong The story of Queen Victoria's early rise to power spans from her predicament as an object of a royal power-struggle in to her romantic courtship and legendary marriage to Prince Albert. "Emily Blunt shines as the tough-minded British queen in this lush, and even sexy, period romance" This film was shown on Friday, February 5th 2010 View This Film
	The Melody Haunts My Reverie (You Love Only Once) Director: Rajko GrlicRated Not Rated Premiered in Un Certain Regard at the Official Program of Cannes Film Festival, France. It was awarded “Grand Prix” and “Best Actor” awards at Valencia Film Festival, Spain, “Trinacrya Award” Erice Film Festival, Italy, critic award for the “Best Yugoslav Film 1981”, Croatian National award, “Nazor Award”, “Grand Prize” and “Public Award” at Nis Film Festival. Selected by Yugoslavian film critics among “ten best Yugoslavian films ever made”. This film was shown on Saturday, February 13th 2010 View This Film
	Croatia 2000 - Who Wants to Be a President Director: Rajko GrlicRated Not Rated This is a feature-length documentary film about dramatic political events that occurred in the period between the death of Croatian president Franjo Tudman and the victory of Stipe Mesic at the presidential elections. Incessantly following the most influential figures in Croatian political life, our cameras witnessed the moments of their biggest battle, their greatest victory and crushing defeat, the days of great strain, passion and political combat. First shots were filmed on November 16, 1999 while the last ones were taken on February18, 2000. Our teams (cameraman and sound assistant) were equipped with small... This film was shown on Saturday, February 13th 2010 View This Film
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Archive of Shows from the Athena Cinema

Dunia - Kiss Me Not on the Eyes

Persepolis

A Town Called Panic

Terribly Happy

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

The Last Station

Police, Adjective

Three for Happiness

Dead Snow

Surprise Film

Border Post (Karaula)

Josephine

Charuga

In The Jaws of Life

The Damned United

A Single Man

That Summer of White Roses

The Young Victoria

The Melody Haunts My Reverie (You Love Only Once)

Croatia 2000 - Who Wants to Be a President