Athena Cinema
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I LOVE GAY 90’S Film Series: BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesDirector: Jamie Babbit Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Ru Paul, Cathy Moriarty Megan is happily making her way through high school as a cheerleader who’s dating a football player. However, she secretly doesn’t enjoy making out with her boyfriend that much, preferring instead to check out her female peers on the cheerleading squad. Also, her religious parents... Read More
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I LOVE GAY 90’S Film Series: THE WATERMELON WOMAN
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesDirector: Cheryl Dunye Writer(s): Cheryl Dunye Cast: Cheryl Dunye, , Guinevere Turner, Camille Paglia Written, directed by, and starring Cheryl Dunye, THE WATERMELON WOMAN was the first feature film to be directed by a black lesbian when it was released in 1996. Shot in a documentary style and featuring a protagonist named “Cheryl” who is a black lesbian... Read More
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I LOVE GAY 90’S Film Series: MA VIE EN ROSE (MY LIFE IN PINK)
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesDirector: Alain Berliner Cast: Georges Du Fresne, Michèle Laroque, Jean-Philippe Écoffey Awards: Golden Globe - Best Foregin Language Film Language: French MA VIE EN ROSE (MY LIFE IN PINK) tells the story of Ludovic, a transgender youth who commits herself to living as a girl. Ludovic’s family has just relocated to a nice, new neighborhood and are concerned that... Read More
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From the Hills and Hollers: NORMA RAE with Dr. Rachel Terman
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesNorma Rae tells the story of a textile worker who gets fed up with the terrible working conditions in her factory and the toll they have taken on her and her family.
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From the Hills and Hollers: NORMA RAE with Dr. Rachel Terman
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesNorma Rae tells the story of a textile worker who gets fed up with the terrible working conditions in her factory and the toll they have taken on her and her family.
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Athens County Public Libraries Present: FREE FOR ALL: THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesFree for All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today’s librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is... Read More
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Athena Cinema’s Rainbow Connections: RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
20 s Court St, Athens, OHAbout the film It’s the 1970’s and teenager Augusten is surrounded by eccentricity: from his alcoholic father to his moody, aspiring-poet mother and her oddball psychiatrist…the young man is at a loss for a solid role model during one of the most important formative periods in life. When his mother arranges for her shrink to... Read More
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Beat the Heat: SONG OF THE SEA
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesSong of the Sea, the second film in Tomm Moore’s “Irish Folklore” trilogy, is the story of a young Irish boy named Ben who learns that his mute sister Saoirse is actually a “selkie” — a mythological creature that can shapeshift from human form to that of a seal. The two children are the son and... Read More
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Hispanic Film Series: MOON’S HEART (El Corazón de la Luna)
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesThis inventive sci-fi/fantasy film – selected as Peru’s entry for Best International Film at the Academy Awards in 2023 – is the story of “M”, an elderly homeless woman who drifts through life as a lonely shadow crossing the same geography every day. Her days are spent day-dreaming about her past life until a chance... Read More
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From the Hills and Hollers: THE DUKES OF HAZZARD with Associate Professor Nerissa Young
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesLoosely based on the hit TV show from the 1970s, The Dukes of Hazzard takes us back to rural Georgia where the Duke family – Uncle Jesse and cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy – do their best to use their General Lee hotrod to out-maneuver the greed of local commissioner Boss Hogg and his lackey Sheriff... Read More