Archive of Shows from the Athena Cinema
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The MaidDirector: Sebastián SilvaRated Not Rated<p>A woman feels she must fight to hold on to her place in the household where she's been a servant for much of her life in this drama from writer and director Sebastián Silva . Raquel works as a maid for a well-to-do Chilean family, and has been with the household so long that she's come to think of herself as part of the family. However, Raquel is also aware of the distance between herself and her employers, and though she's fiercely devoted to Mundo Valdes , his wife, Pilar, and their son, Lucas, she finds herself increasingly at odds with their rebellious daughter, Camila. Years of hard and unrelenting work...This film was shown on Friday, December 11th 2009 View This Film |
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New York, I Love YouDirector: Faith Akin, Yvan Attal, Alan Hughes Shunji Iwai, Scarlett JoRated R<p>Starring Kevin Bacon, Justin Bartha, Maggie Q, Orlando Bloom, Chris Cooper, Drea de Matteo, Eddie D'vir, James Caan, Carla Gugino, Ethan Hawke, John Hurt, Hayden Christensen, Irfan Khan, Shia LaBeouf, Cloris Leachman, Blake Lively, Natalie Portman, Rachel Bilson, Shu Qi, Julie Christie, Christina Ricci, Olivia Thirlby, Goran Visnjic, Eli Wallach, Saul Williams, Robin Wright Penn, and Anton Yelchin, Burt Young, Ugur Yucel</p> <p><!-- plot...This film was shown on Friday, December 11th 2009 View This Film |
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A Serious ManDirector: Joel Coen and Ethan CoenRated R<p>A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances, Sy Ableman, who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is...This film was shown on Tuesday, December 8th 2009 View This Film |
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35 Shots of RumDirector: Claire DenisRated Not Rated<p><em>In French and German with English Subtitles</em></p> <p>Lionel has brought up his daughter, Josephine, on his own since his wife’s accidental death. Over the years, their life together has grown to resemble that of a couple. Josephine has now reached the age at which the roles begin to be inverted. She is now the one who seems to want to take care of her father. Lionel knows that he has one more thing to do: to convince Josephine to make her own way in the world, to become a woman and to leave...This film was shown on Friday, December 4th 2009 View This Film |
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Big FanDirector: Robert SiegelRated R<p>Starring Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Michael Rapaport, and Marcia Jean Kurtz</p> <p><!-- plot summary --> Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". He lives at home with his mother, spending his off hours calling in to local sports-radio station 760 The Zone, where he rants in support of his beloved team, often against his mysterious on-air rival, Eagles fan Philadelphia Phil. His family...This film was shown on Friday, December 4th 2009 View This Film |
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Lorna\'s SilenceDirector: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc DardenneRated R<p><em>In French and Albanian with English subtitles</em></p> <p>The destiny of a woman caught between love and the law of the underworld. Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her boyfriend, Sokol. In order to do so, she becomes an accomplice in a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio. Fabio has set up a false marriage between Lorna and Claudy allowing Lorna to get her Belgian citizenship. However, she is then asked to marry a Russian mafioso who's ready to pay hard cash to also get his hands on those vital...This film was shown on Friday, November 27th 2009 View This Film |
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Coco Before ChanelDirector: Anne FontaineRated PG-13<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">In French with English Subtitles</span></p> <p>Starring Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola, Marie Gillain, and Emmanuelle Devos</p> <p class="summarytext" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; font-size: 13px;"><br /> COCO BEFORE CHANEL is the story of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, who began her life as headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary...This film was shown on Friday, November 27th 2009 View This Film |
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The Yes Men Fix the WorldDirector: Andy Bichlbaum and Mike BonannoRated Not Rated<p>The Yes Men are anti-corporate pranksters who create phony Web sites to get themselves invited to high-level corporate conferences and media events - where they give hilarious, Swiftian analyses that unmask global injustice and satirize human rights abuses. They are the 21st century's answer to Timothy Leary's proselytizing for acid and Ken Kesey's busload of hipsters. The big difference is that they care less about changing minds than changing policy. But announcing, as spokespeople for Dow Chemical, that they will at last take full financial responsibility for the victims of Bhopal, they create a media sensation that...This film was shown on Sunday, November 15th 2009 View This Film |
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ParisDirector: Cédric KlapischRated R<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">In French with English Subtitles</span></p> <p>Starring Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Albert Dupontel, François Cluzet, Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche, and Mélanie Laurent</p> <p> </p> <p class="summarytext" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 13px;...This film was shown on Friday, November 13th 2009 View This Film |
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It Might Get LoudDirector: Davis GuggenheimRated PG<p>Starring the Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White</p> <p><!-- plot summary -->Rarely can a film penetrate the glamorous surface of rock legends. It Might Get Loud tells the personal stories, in their own words, of three generations of electric guitar virtuosos – The Edge (U2), Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), and Jack White (The White Stripes). It reveals how each developed his unique sound and style of playing favorite instruments, guitars both found and invented. Concentrating on the artist’s musical...This film was shown on Tuesday, November 10th 2009 View This Film |
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Capitalism: A Love StoryDirector: Michael MooreRated R<p>Capitalism: A Love Story explores the root causes of the global economic meltdown and takes a comical look at the corporate and political shenanigans that culminated in what Moore has described as the biggest robbery in the history of this country--the massive transfer of U.S. taxpayer money to private financial institutions.</p> <p>"Moore's fireball of a movie could change your life. It had me laughing with tears in my eyes." <strong>Peter Travers, <em>Rolling...This film was shown on Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 View This Film |
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Bright StarDirector: Jane CampionRated PG<p>Starring Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Paul Schneider, and Kerry Fox</p> <p><!-- plot summary -->London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, and outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds, he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. It was the illness of Keats' younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny's efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry. By...This film was shown on Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 View This Film |
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HalloweeniesDirector: Dane McCarthyRated Unrated<p>Travis, a young artist in love with horror, lacks a girlfriend, a job, and direction until four "friends" move in. Bella is a dangerous object of universal lust, Howie is a hulkng, sinister simple-mnded Breck, and Corey is charming and manipulative. During one Halloween night, Travis discovers a different kind of fear as his "friends" go on an insane rampage of robbery and murder.</p> <p>That "Halloweenies" was even produced locally at all is evidence that the landscape, structures and people of this area are conducive...This film was shown on Saturday, October 31st 2009 View This Film |
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TruckerDirector: James MotternRated R<p>Diane Ford (Michelle Monaghan), a vivacious and successful independent truck driver, leads a carefree life of long-haul trucking, one night stands and all-night drinking with Runner (Nathan Fillion, Serenity, “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog,” “Castle”) until the evening her estranged 11-year-old son, Peter (Jimmy Bennett, young James Kirk in Star Trek) is unexpectedly dropped at her door. Peter hasn’t seen his mother since he was a baby and wants to live with Diane as little as she wants him, but they are stuck with each other - at least for...This film was shown on Friday, October 23rd 2009 View This Film |
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Cold SoulsDirector: Sophie BarthesRated PG-13<p>Writer/director Sophie Barthes crafts this metaphysical tragicomedy that straddles the line between reality and fantasy set in a world where souls are extracted from humans and traded as commodity. Paul Giamatti is an anxious New Yorker who finds the answer to his deep-rooted malaise after stumbling upon an article about a high-tech company that claims to have found a solution to human suffering. By deep-freezing souls, claims the company, they can give their customers a life free from fear, doubt, and worry. Eager to free himself from the emotional burden of angst, Giamatti eagerly enlists their services. Trouble arises,...This film was shown on Tuesday, October 13th 2009 View This Film |
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Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His WorkDirector: Cheikh DjemaïRated Not Rated<p><em>In French with English subtitles</em></p> <p>Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique, who became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. During the Second World War, he volunteered as a soldier to help France, “the Mother Country,” against the Nazis. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to radical politics, Sartrean existentialism and the...This film was shown on Sunday, October 11th 2009 View This Film |
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Romance of Astrea and CeladonDirector: Eric RohmerRated Not RatedIn French with English Subtitles Each remarkable new film by legendary auteur director Eric Rohmer, now approaching his 90th birthday, breaks new cinematic ground, and The Romance of Astréa and Celadon is as exciting and innovative as any of Rohmer’s earlier work during the French New Wave. This time, his movie is based on Honoré d’Urfé’s 17th-century novel, a romance set among the charming young shepherds and shepardesses—as well as the nymphs, fairies, and druids that dwell among them on the Forez plain in 5th-century... This film was shown on Wednesday, October 14th 2009 View This Film |
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Indigenes (Days of Glory)Director: Rachid BoucharebRated Not Rated<p><em>In French and Arabic with English subtitles</em></p> <p>In 1944 and 1945 the liberation of Italy, Provence, the Alps, the Rhone Valley, Vosges, Alsace was essential to the victory of the allies. What is little known is that these victories were largely due to the accomplishment of recruits from Africa. 130 000 natives from North Africa and 20 000 Africans fought to liberate France, a country they had never seen before. ...This film was shown on Sunday, October 11th 2009 View This Film |
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The Secret of the GrainDirector: Abdellatif KechicheRated Not Rated<p><em>In French, Arabic and German with English subtitles</em></p> <p>This stunning film takes place in the Southern French city of Sète where Slimane, the patriarch of a large and vivacious North African family, is an elderly dockworker. When his job of many years is suddenly no longer secure, he decides to restore an old boat in the harbor, and turn it into a floating couscous restaurant. It’s a wildly ambitious project, and the increasingly ailing Slimane will need the help of all of his family members in order to pull it...This film was shown on Sunday, October 11th 2009 View This Film |
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School of Film First Year Screenings<p>The first year graduate students in The School of Film at Ohio University screen a wide array of works displaying local flavor and international sensabilities. Join us for an exciting evening of locally produced short films.</p> <p><em>This film is part of Arts for Ohio Cinematheque. Cinematheque is <strong>FREE</strong> for Ohio Students and <strong>FREE</strong> for Local High School Students</em></p>This film was shown on Saturday, October 10th 2009 View This Film |
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