Film Events This Week:



Monday, May 11th, 6-7pm: Dartmouth Film Society Meeting (Wilson 205)

The Dartmouth Film Society is a student organization that meets once a week to discuss the films playing at the Hopkins Center, debate important issues (like whether Ghostbusters is the best film of all time), write program notes, critique new movie trailers and vote on series proposals for future terms. You don’t have to be an expert - you just have to have an opinion!



Tuesday, May 12th, 7pm: EYEWASH: NIC COLLINS (VAC001, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Free and Open to the Public)

Born and raised in New York City, Nicolas Collins lived in Amsterdam and Berlin in the 1990s before joining the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of electronic circuitry, conventional acoustic instruments, and hybrid electro-acoustic instruments. He is editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and his book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. Collins has the dubious distinction of having played at both CBGB and the Concertgebouw.

http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=34252



Thursday, May 14th, 7pm: National Theatre Live in HD: “Man and Superman” (Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $10 for students)

Academy-Award nominee Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel) plays Jack Tanner in this exhilarating reinvention of George Bernard Shaw’s witty, provocative classic. Tanner, a celebrated radical thinker and rich bachelor, seems an unlikely choice as guardian to the alluring heiress Ann. But she takes it in her assured stride and, despite the love of a poet, she decides to marry and tame this dazzling revolutionary. Appalled by the whiff of domesticity, Tanner flees to Spain, where he is captured by bandits and meets The Devil. An extraordinary dream-debate, heaven versus hell, ensues. Following in hot pursuit, Ann is there when Tanner awakes, as fierce in her certainty as he is in his. A dazzling display of rat-a-tat-tat verbal dexterity that showcases Fiennes' charisma, skill and, above all, stamina, this handsomely crafted revival honors the integrity of Shaw's vision while managing to keep this potentially unwieldy, seldom-mounted beast of a play boxed up within a digestible three-and-a half-hour running time, including a 20-minute intermission. Opening a hundred years after the play was first performed in its entirety—including the third-act symposium of ideas set in hell that many productions eschew—director Godwin's modern-dress version rediscovers a vital spirit in the Edwardian-age material that feels somehow timely and still provocative. A romantic comedy, an epic fairytale, a fiery philosophical debate, Man and Superman asks fundamental questions about how we live. Runtime: 180m. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/ntlmanandsuperman



Friday, May 15th, 7pm: Hop Film: “White God”

(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)

The words “release the hounds” take on vibrant new meaning in this thrillingly strange update of the “Lassie Come Home” formula, in which one lost mutt’s incredible journey to sanctuary evolves into a full-scale man-vs.-beast revolution. When young Lili is forced to give up her beloved dog Hagen because his mixed-breed heritage is deemed “unfit” by The State, the two desperately try to find each other—but Hagen has learned on the streets that man is not always dog’s best friend…D: Kornel Mundruzco, Hungary, subtitled, 2014, Runtime: 121m.

https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hopfilmwhitegod



Saturday, May 16th, 5pm & 8pm: Hop Film: “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”

(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)

The gang is all back! Under Sonny (Dev Patel) and Muriel’s (Maggie Smith) management, the hotel has proved an amazing success, allowing for expansion into a Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Romance abounds, as Evelyn and Douglas (Judi Dench, Bill Nighy) wonder where their regular dates for Chilla pancakes will lead and Madge (Celia Imrie) swoons over a handsome newcomer (Richard Gere)—but the demanding preparations for Sonny’s traditional Indian wedding threaten to engulf them all. D: John Madden, US, 2015, Runtime: 122m

https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hopfilmthesecondbestexoticmarigoldhotel



Sunday, May 17th, 4pm: DFS Film: “Stations of the Cross”

(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)

Told in 14 fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, Stations of the Cross is both an indictment of fundamentalism and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. The demanding road to salvation preached by her fanatical Catholic family is entirely at odds with the modern world—and normal teenage emotions and desires. But Maria is determined to hold fast to her faith. D: Dietrich Brueggemann, Germany, subtitled, 2014, Runtime: 110m

https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/dfsfilmstationsofthecross



Sunday, May 17th, 7pm: Film Special: “Trainwreck” (Special Advance Screening)

(Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Free Admission, Doors open at 6:30pm)

Comedy genius Judd Apatow (40-Year-Old Virgin) collaborates with queen of raunch Amy Schumer on his first female-centered feature—and this screwed-up, screwball heroine has enough unbridled life force for a dozen ordinary characters. Tart-tongued, booze-swilling serial dater Amy Townsend (Schumer) finds her love life barreling downhill with ever-increasing velocity—until she starts to fall for a charming sports doctor (Bill Hader), who might make her rethink her mantra “monogamy isn’t realistic.” Written by Amy Schumer, Trainwreck shows the full range of her comic gifts while subverting the ossified codes that dictate how women in Hollywood rom-coms are supposed to behave. D: Judd Apatow, US, 2015, Runtime: 122m. Trainwreck opens nationwide in theaters on July 17.





Now Playing at the Nugget:



Ex Machina

Danny Collins (Last Showing on Thursday)

Woman in Gold (Last Showing on Thursday)

The Water Diviner (Last Showing on Thursday)

Mad Max: Fury Road (Also in 3D – Opens Friday)

Pitch Perfect 2 (Opens Friday)





EYEWASH: Experimental Images and Sounds will continue this spring on Tuesdays at 7pm in VAC001:

  *   ?5/12, Nic Collins

The 15S workshop schedule in The Digital Lab, all are set for Thursdays 4 - 5:30 pm:

  *   5/14 Premiere Pro Basics
  *   5/28 After Effects Basics



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Ongoing Film Opportunities:


1. Interested in TV? Email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to see how you can get involved in Dartmouth Television!



2. The Digital Lab in the Black Family Visual Arts Center will be hosting open lab hours this term led by Chris Ivanyi. Sun: 6-9pm, Mon: 3-5pm & 6-9pm, Tues: 3-5pm, Wed: 3-5pm & 6-9pm, Thurs: 3-5pm, Fri: 1-3pm. In the Digital Lab you can learn about working with Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and other photo/video editing software.



3. Looking for an internship in the entertainment industry? Join the DAEMA Internship Google Group for updates on what is available: http://groups.google.com/group/daema_jobsinternships



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Best,



Mykel Nairne '16

Assistant to the Department of Film and Media Studies

Dartmouth College