Film Events This Week:



Monday, September 21st, 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, September 22nd, 4pm & 7pm: Telluride at Dartmouth: “Ixcanul” (Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, $6 for single student ticket/$30 for a festival student pass)

At the base of an active volcano, in a region long inhabited by Mayan people, Maria’s family prepares for her marriage. The teenage girl, however, has other ideas. With one drunken encounter, she alters her fate and that of her family. Jayro Bustamante’s masterful debut feature begins as an intensely lovely immersion into contemporary rural Guatemalan culture. Having grown up in the region, Bustamante is a remarkable tour guide, revealing lifeways of the local people. But as the story takes several dramatic turns, Bustamante reveals that he has ambitions far beyond either the coming-of-age film or the typical tradition-vs.-modernity tale. By its startling finale, Ixcanul has taken on an operatic energy reminiscent of early Werner Herzog, and injected a dose of political fury. A deserving winner at multiple festivals including Berlin, Ixcanul is one of the truly essential films in recent years. (Guatemala, subtitled, 2015, 91m)

Courtesy of Kino Lorber



Tuesday, September 22nd, 7pm: EYEWASH: Joseph Bernard (VAC 001, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Free and Open to the Public)

Joseph Bernard, a Detroit-based artist schooled in painting, worked exclusively with Super 8mm silent films for ten years beginning in the late 1970s. He made over 100 films during this period before returning to collage painting. This program features a selection from his extensive body of film work, “film-as-film abstractions, non-narrative efforts more closely akin to absolute music.”

http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=36223



Wednesday, September 23, 4pm & 7pm: Telluride at Dartmouth: “Rams” (Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, $6 for single student ticket/$30 for a festival student pass)

While living next door to one another, two aging brothers, locked in some unnamed, decades-long feud, go to dryly comical extremes to avoid communication with each other. Gummi (Sigurour Sigurjónsson) is shy, quiet but essentially decent, while Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson) is a bombastic, misanthropic drunk. But they share their passionate love for the sheep to whom they’ve each dedicated their lives and land. When one of their sheep contracts a contagious disease, the livelihood of the brothers and their neighbors is threatened. Writer-director Grímur Hákonarson, a master of mournful wordless comic set-pieces, with cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, makes maximum expressive use of the bleakly beautiful Icelandic mountain landscapes. But it’s the almost wordless performances of Siggurson and Juliusson that lead to an unexpectedly passionate resolution. Who could have expected Iceland, sheep and septuagenarian bachelors to be this funny, and this thrilling? (Iceland, subtitled, 2015, 93m) Courtesy of Cohen Media



Thursday, September 24th, 4pm & 7pm: Telluride at Dartmouth: “45 Years” (Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, $6 for single student ticket/$30 for a festival student pass)

On the eve of their 45th anniversary, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay), an intelligent, progressive, relatively healthy married couple living in rural England, confront a long-buried emotional memory that inexplicably, and seemingly arbitrarily, resurfaces. Suddenly, everything Kate and Geoff believe they know about each other comes into question. Writer-director Andrew Haigh (Weekend) delicately reveals the fault lines, mysteries and uncertainties that exist just beneath the surface of what may seem to be the most harmonious of human relationships. Rampling and Courtenay, two of the greatest stars from England’s Swinging ‘60s, each offer some of the finest work of their long careers, turning 45 Years into one of the most subtle, powerful and devastating British dramas in recent memory. (England, 2015, Runtime: 93m) Courtesy of IFC



Friday, September 25th, 7pm: Hop Film: “Trainwreck” (Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)

Queen of raunch Amy Schumer joins Judd Apatow on his first female-centered feature—and this screwed-up, screwball heroine has enough life force for ten ordinary characters. Tart-tongued, booze-swilling serial dater Amy (Schumer) reconsiders her mantra “monogamy isn’t realistic” when she falls for a charming sports doctor (Bill Hader). Unforgettable supporting roles for Tilda Swinton and future Oscar nominee Lebron James make this wildly inappropriate comedy an absolute must-see. D: Judd Apatow, US, 2015, Runtime: 125m

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



Saturday, Saturday 26th, 7pm: Film Special: “Meru”

(Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, $5 for students)

After a heartbreaking failure (300 feet from the summit) in 2008, the world’s best climbers reunited three years later for yet another attempt on India’s perversely impossible Mt. Meru. Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk grapple Meru’s ice walls once more, under even more extraordinary circumstances. Winner of Sundance’s Documentary Audience Award, Meru is an “engrossing and hair-raising” (Variety) expedition through ice, pain, demons and glory. D: Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, US/India, 2015, Runtime: 90m

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



Saturday, September 26th, 7pm: Hop Film: “Love and Mercy” (Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)

A wonderfully innervating cure for the common musical biopic, Love and Mercy draws an unconventional portrait of Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson, played by Paul Dano and John Cusack with separate, but equally compelling approaches to the mercurial songwriter. Set against the era-defining catalog of Wilson’s music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost. Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti deliver star turns as well.  D: Bill Pohlad, US, 2015, Runtime: 121m

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



Sunday, September 27th, 4pm: DFS Film: “The Salt of the Earth”

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

For 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has traveled across continents capturing those suffering from poverty, international conflict and labor in stunning black-and-white. His current project is a tribute to the beauty of the planet, featuring astonishing landscapes of unspoiled territories. Wim Wenders’ latest documentary confirms that “the empathy and humanism that make Salgado’s photojournalistic work so special are also a part of the artist’s outlook on life” (Hollywood Reporter). D: Wim Wenders, Brazil, subtitled, 2015, Runtime: 110m

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





Now Playing at the Nugget:



Black Mass

Grandma

A Walk in the Woods

Mistress America (Ends Thursday)

Jurassic World (Starts Friday – One Week Only)





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

·       9/22, Joseph Bernard



The 15F workshop schedule in The Digital Lab, all are set for Tuesdays AND Thursdays 12 – 1:30pm:

  *   9/22 Intro Premiere Pro
  *   9/24 Intro After Effects
  *   9/29 Intro Illustrator
  *   10/1 Intro InDesign
  *   10/6 Intro LightRoom
  *   10/8 Intro Muse or Weebly
  *   10/13 Topics Photoshop-Collage
  *   10/15 Topics Premiere Pro-Mini Doc
  *   10/20 Topics After Effects-More on Effects
  *   10/22 Topics Illustrator-Make Personal Logo
  *   10/27 Topics InDesign-Create a Business Card
  *   10/29 Topics LightRoom-Develop a Module
  *   11/3 Topics Photoshop-Creating a Portrait
  *   11/10 Topics After Effects-VFX

~ Images in Motion ~
Lecture/Workshops Tuesdays 4pm – 5:30pm

·       10/6 PATRICIA HANNAWAY 3D ANIMATION

·       10/20 JAMIE DICKINSON COLOR GRADING

·       10/27 BEN SILBERFARB DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

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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 help hours this term led by Chris Ivanyi. Mon, Wed, Fri: 10am-12pm & 1-4pm. 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