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COMING SOON: TONY is a biographical comedy-drama about Chef and writer Anthony Bourdain, directed and co-written by Matt Johnson (BLACKBERRY, NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE) and based partly on Bourdain’s famous memoir Kitchen Confidential 👨‍🍳 Tix available soon! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/tony/

Our #AppalachianStories Film Series returns this fall! Featuring everything from docs on bluegrass to comedies like COCAINE BEAR, all with intros from local experts, this series has it all. Plus...admission is FREE! Thursdays at 7pm, starting 9/17! Info/🎟️: athenacinema.com/appalachian/

Come see ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES for our #BeatTheHeat series this Sat 8/8 at 3pm! Admission is a donation to local children's orgs Did you know..? Actor Ryan Holihan ("Lumpy Addams") earned his MFA in Theatre from Ohio University! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/beattheheataddamsfamilyvalues/

One Week Only: See HADESTOWN at the Athena! This live stage recording of Anaïs Mitchell's hit Broadway show blends modern American folk music with New Orleans-inspired jazz to reimagine the tales of Orpheus and Eurydice & Hades and Persephone. Opens Fri 8/7! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/hadestownthe...

HADESTOWN: THE MUSICAL – Opens Friday, August 7th…One Week Only!

The live theater capture of the hit musical Hadestown, which won eight Tony Awards in 2019 including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, featuring the five origin…

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One Week Only: See I WANT YOUR SEX at the Athena! Directed by Gregg Araki, the film follows Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) as he lands an exciting job for renowned artist Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde) and becomes her sexual muse. Opening Fri 8/7! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/iwantyoursex/

I WANT YOUR SEX – Opens Friday, August 7th…One Week Only!

Cooper Hoffman stars as Elliot, a naive young man who lands a dream job for an iconic and provocative artist, Erika Tracy (played by Olivia Wilde). As Elliot’s job becomes more involved, his …

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Special Art House Theater Day Cocktails tonight! The WorryFree Solution - Pink Lavender Vodka Lemonade The Victrola Cola - Ginger, Bulleit Bourbon, and Pepsi Come enjoy our double-feature with PUTNEY SWOPE + SORRY TO BOTHER YOU and try both drinks!

Join us tonight, Thursday, July 30th for Art House Theater Day! Our line-up: 7pm - PUTNEY SWOPE [INTERMISSION] 9pm - SORRY TO BOTHER YOU $5 for one movie or $8 for the double-feature. 🎟️: athenacinema.com/arthousetheaterday26/

We're honored to be in the @arthouseconvergence.org Member Spotlight this month! Our Director, Alex Kamody, was interviewed about our programming and history. We're proud that we've been a place for our community to gather for over a century! Read here: arthouseconvergence.org/spotlight-se...

July 2026 Member Spotlight — The Athena Cinema — Art House Convergence

For July, we talked to Alex Kamody at The Athena Cinema, who is the cinema’s director and has been in the role for 18 years. The Athena Cinema is a three-screen cinema located in Athens, Ohio, a unive...

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Get your Spidey suits ready - SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY premieres this Thursday, July 30th! (We're not kidding - At least one of our staffers has a Spidey suit for opening night...) 🕷️🕸️Thwip! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/spidermanbrandnewday/

THE INVITE premieres tomorrow Fri 7/17! Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde star as partners in a troubled marriage. Tiffany McLaughlin of Pop Culture Leftovers calls it "a very punchy, situational comedy that feels like it could have been made 30 years ago and still hit." 🎟️: athenacinema.com/theinvite/

THE INVITE – Opens Friday, July 17th!

Film star and Spirit Award-winning filmmaker Olivia Wilde (Booksmart) stars alongside Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton in a new marriage comedy from A24 Studios that some critics are ca…

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Come celebrate Art House Theater Day with us Thurs 7/30 at 7pm! We're showing We've got 2 awesome anti-capitalist movies: PUTNEY SWOPE, a deep-cut from 1969, and SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, Boots Riley's debut masterpiece from 2018! @arthouseconvergence.org 🎟️: athenacinema.com/arthousetheaterday26/

Art House Theater Day Double-Feature: PUTNEY SWOPE + SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

Join us Thursday, July 30th at 7:00 p.m. as we celebrate Art House Theater Day with an exciting double-feature of anti-capitalist classics! One Film $5 – Double-feature $8 Double-feature Sche…

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Come see THE ODYSSEY opening night this Thurs 7/16 at 7:30pm! Try a themed cocktail! Wear a toga! Enjoy Christopher Nolan's adaptation of one of the great epics of ancient Greece! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/theodyssey/

THE ODYSSEY premieres at the Athena next Thurs 7/16! Directed by Christopher Nolan, this new adaptation of Homer's epic stars Matt Damon as Odysseus and chronicles his journey home after the Trojan War. 🎟️: athenacinema.com/theodyssey/

MINIONS & MONSTERS is still playing for a few more days! We know you love these little yellow goofballs, and so do we! 😁 🎟️: athenacinema.com/minionsandmonsters/

THE INVITE, starring Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Penelope Cruz, and Edward Norton, opens this Fri 7/17! Will a dinner party with enigmatic neighbors reignite the spark to a failing marriage, or light the match that burns it all down..? Come see for yourself! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/theinvite/

THE INVITE – Opens Friday, July 17th!

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Join us next Sat 7/18 at 3pm for OSMOSIS JONES! The event features a talk by Dr. Sarah Adkins, Exec Dir of Rising Suns Pharmacy! This will be the last event in this year's Science on Screen® series and will be part of Ohio Brew Week's Last Call 🎟️: athenacinema.com/beattheheatosmosisjones

Science On Screen + Beat the Heat Family Film Series Present: OSMOSIS JONES with Dr Sarah Adkins

Join us Saturday, July 18th at 3:00 p.m. for a special event that ties together Science on Screen®, the kick-off of our summer Beat the Heat Family Film Series, and Ohio Brew Week’s Last Call…

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For Art House Theater Day, we're pairing two generations of radical, anti-establishment filmmaking for a night of surreal corporate warfare! One film $5 | Double-feature $8 See comments below for more info 🎟️: athenacinema.com/arthousetheaterday26/ @arthouseconvergence.org @bootsriley.bsky.social

TOY 5 is still playing at the Athena - Last day: Thursday, July 9th! It's been great playing more family movies this summer and seeing more young folks hanging out at the Athena! That's not to say we don't appreciate the older crowd too - we welcome folks of any age! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/toystory5/

TOY STORY 5 – Last Day: Thursday, July 9th

The toys are back in the fifth installment of Pixar’s Toy Story film franchise! This time around, it’s old-school vs new-tech when Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voiced by…

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Catch SUPERGIRL at the Athena - Last Day: Wednesday, July 8th! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/supergirl/

SUPERGIRL

When an unexpected and ruthless adversary strikes too close to home, Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an epic, interstellar journey of vengeance an…

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MINIONS & MONSTERS is playing now at the Athena! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/minionsandmonsters/

High school students from Ohio University's College of Fine Arts Summer Programs screened their short films at the Athena last week to an enraptured audience! We were honored to host these young filmmakers, and we can't wait to show their films on the big screen again in a few years!

Playing Now at the Athena: SUPERGIRL, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS, and TOY STORY 5! Three fun films with great reviews - If you've seen them, let us know what your thoughts in the comments below *Note: Today is the last day to see GIRLS LIKE GIRLS, so catch it while you can!! 🎟️: athenacinema.com

MINIONS & MONSTERS is coming to the Athena TOMORROW, Wednesday July 1st! That's right...it's opening early! The Minions try to make a creature feature and instead have to save the planet from monsters they unleash onto it! 👹 🎟️: athenacinema.com/minionsandmo...

MINIONS & MONSTERS – Opens Wednesday, July 1st!

Director Pierre Coffin and Brian Lynch bring you the third installment of the Minions prequel series! Set about a century ago in the 1920’s, the film follows the exuberant, cavorting, and cha…

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THE DRAMA is coming Fri, Apr 3rd...Tix on sale now! Come find out "what's the worst thing" Robert Pattinson and Zendaya have ever done in this darkly drama-tic A24 rom-com from Norwegian director Kristoff Borgli! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/thedrama/

Did you know..? Not a single "green screen" was used for PROJECT HAIL MARY. Instead, real set pieces, puppets, and optical FX gave the film its unique look. It's great to see a sci-fi movie created in this old-school way, and we ❤ Rocky! 🪨 Come check it out! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/projecthailmary/

PROJECT HAIL MARY

Based on the best-selling novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) comes a new epic sci-fi tale of cosmic survival. Ryan Gosling stars as astronaut Ryland Grace who awakens in deep space to find himself al…

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Highlights from author Jeff VanderMeer's event at the Athena this past Tuesday for SPRING LITERARY FEST!🙂 Run by the OU English Department's Creative Writing Program, Lit Fest brings renowned writers to campus for a series of lectures and readings. Sincere thanks, Jeff! @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social

Tomorrow... A MAGNIFICENT LIFE! This animated drama follows the story of Marcel Pagnol, a famous writer in 1950's France, who's visited by a vision of his childhood self. Together, they will gather all the memories from Pagnol's past and put it in writing! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/amagnificentlife/

A MAGNIFICENT LIFE – Opens Friday, March 27th!

In this beautifully-animated biographical drama, the life of Marcel Pagnol unfolds as we encounter the French novelist and playwright, at the height of his fame in mid-1950’s Paris, being tas…

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THE DRAMA, starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, is coming Fri 4/3! This film has already been living up to its name, causing a stir late last year when A24 took out a fake engagement ad in the Boston Globe & people were surprised to see some familiar faces! 💍 Tix & showtimes coming soon!

PROJECT HAIL MARY, starring Ryan Gosling, premieres today, Fri 3/20 at the Athena! Early reviews are praising Gosling's performance and predicting this to be the best sci-fi movie of the year. It'll likely turn your world upside-down! 🎟️: athenacinema.com/projecthailmary