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From the Hills and Hollers: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS with Dr. Tiffany Arnold
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesJodie Foster stars as FBI agent Clarice Starling who is tasked with investigating a string of murders involving overweight women that appears to be the work of an emerging serial killer.
ENO – ART HOUSE: Special Screening, One-Night-Only!
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesA career-spanning documentary about musician/multi-media artist Brian Eno! A self-described “non-musician”, Brian Eno helped to pioneer the establishment of many genres like ambient music. In addition to creating some of the most groundbreaking albums of the past 50 years, Eno has also produced critically-acclaimed albums from many of the world’s most influential bands and performers – acts as... Read More
Sustainability Series: GREEN WARRIORS: CHILDREN OF LEAD with Dr. Michele Morrone
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesThough it has been outlawed as an additive in everyday consumer goods like gasoline, house paint, and plumbing materials, lead is still highly valued as a component for the manufacture of building materials, weapons, and batteries. Wherever lead is extracted, refined, or turned into essential products that keep economies moving, the element leaves a poisonous... Read More
From the Hills and Hollers: HILLBILLY with Tom Hansell
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesTraining their cameras on the people, places, and culture of Appalachia, Rubin and York seek to reclaim the dignity of the term and to portray Appalachians in a more positive and realistic light.
The Met: Live in HD: Mozart’s DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesNathalie Stutzmann conducts her second Mozart work this season with a new production of Die Zauberflöte. In his Met-debut staging, Simon McBurney incorporates projections, sound effects, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart’s fable. The brilliant cast includes soprano Erin Morley as Pamina, tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino, baritone Thomas Oliemans in... Read More
Classics & Cocktails: JAWS
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesDuuuunnnn duun…duuunnnnnnn dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnn dunnn! We are still on the hunt for some iconic Narragansset beer cans for our screenings of JAWS but in the meantime, we will be featuring a delicious Sharkbite Cocktail! More details coming soon. Classics & Cocktails is back for a summer series!... Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesTony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new staging of Mozart’s tragicomedy Don Giovanni. The tale of deceit and damnation is set in an abstract architectural landscape that explores the dark corners of the story and its characters. Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Met debut conducting a star-studded cast led by... Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Terence Blanchard’s CHAMPION
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesSix-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones made history in the 2021–22 season. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become a world champion, and bass-baritone Eric Owens portrays Griffith’s older self, haunted... Read More
The Met: Live in HD: Strauss’ DER ROSENKAVALIER
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesA stellar trio assembles to take on the lead roles of Strauss’s comedy, with soprano Lise Davidsen in her Met role debut as the Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard in her Met role debut as Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as Baron Ochs, and Markus Brück is Sophie’s father,... Read More
Oh, Hi Mark! An Evening Inside THE ROOM with Greg Sestero
Athena Cinema 20 South Court Street, Athens, OH, United StatesGreg Sestero is back in Athens! About the event Spend a night with the man who survived THE ROOM Join us for a special evening of the hit cult classic THE ROOM with Greg Sestero, star of THE ROOM and author of THE DISASTER ARTIST, the critically-acclaimed tell-all about the making of THE ROOM that inspired A24’s award-winning... Read More