Film Events This Week:
Monday, May 18th, 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 19th, 4pm: Vice Media ‘po-russki’: A Guide/Online Documentaries and Russian Protest Movements (Reed Hall 108, Free and Open to the Public)
In his talk, Andrew Chapman will discuss two recent documentary film/media projects currently
produced in Russia (The Term [2013-] and Reality [2014-]). The producers liken these projects, which exist online in a series of different media reporting platforms, to “A Russian Vice Media” or “Russkii
Vice.” The two projects feature over one hundred amateur cameramen, who are given cameras and sent to document tendentious events such as political protests, crime scenes, riots, and sports-related hooliganism. Chapman’s talk will cover topics such as activist
media and political mobilization, amateur media culture and citizen journalism, and independent media viability. The event is free and open to the public.
http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=34692
Wednesday, May 20th, 4:30pm: Hood Museum Film Screening: “Watermark (2013)”
(Hood Auditorium, Hood Museum, Free and Open to the Public)
This feature documentary from multiple-award-winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky brings together diverse stories from around the globe
about our relationship with water. Amelia Kahl, Coordinator of Academic Programming and curator of Water Ways: Tension and Flow,
will introduce the film. Film Runtime: 92m.
http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=34469
Friday, May 22nd, 6:30pm & 9pm: Hop Film: “While We’re Young”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Aging, ambition and success take center stage in Noah Baumbach’s sparkling follow-up to 2012’s Frances Ha. Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts are 40-somethings whose careers and marriage are overturned when they meet a disarming young couple (Adam Driver, Amanda Seyfried). These young hipsters seem so plugged in, so uninhibited, so Brooklyn cool—are they too good to be true? Powered by Stiller's note-perfect performance, Young reminds us that aging gracefully is never easy. D: Noah Baumbach, US, 2015, Runtime: 94m.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hopfilmwhilewereyoung
Saturday, May 23rd, 5pm & 8pm: Hop Film: “Wild Tales”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Revenge, if not always sweet, can, in the right hands, be very funny. This wickedly delightful anthology of six shorts explores the many roads to vengeance, as the principal characters—having suffered insults and indignities, trivial and serious—go to outlandishly murderous lengths to get even. Says director Szifron, “Most of us live with the frustration of having to repress oneself, but some people explode. This is a movie about those who explode, and we can all understand why they do.” This provocative satire, nominated for Best Foreign Language film and produced by Pedro Almodóvar, enacts a savage assault on Argentine society, skewering class and gender biases with a deliciously morbid sense of humor. D: Damian Szifron, Argentina, subtitled, 2014, Runtime: 122m https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hopfilmwildtales
Sunday, May 24th, 4pm: DFS Film: “IlO IlO”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Troublesome 10-year-old Jiale is more than a handful for his overstressed parents. With another baby on the way, they hire a Filipino immigrant, Teresa, as a nanny to manage Jiale’s antics, and the two soon form a unique bond. But just as Teresa becomes an unspoken part of the family, unforeseen circumstances in an uncertain economy will challenge the new normal yet again. Winner of the best debut film award at Cannes last year, Ilo Ilo is “brimming with love, humor and heartbreak” (Variety). D: Anthony Chen, Singapore, 2014, Runtime: 99m.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/dfsfilmiloilo
Sunday, May 24th, 7pm: Film Special: “Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
(Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, $5 for students)
In the 1920s a Hindu swami named Paramahansa Yogananda travelled around the US teaching the benefits of meditation and urging Americans to tap into their inner divinity. Thousands flocked to Yogananda’s lectures and visited his Los Angeles-based ashram. Calvin Coolidge invited him to the White House. And although most modern American yoga practitioners focus on the physical form, Yogananda’s influence remains very much alive more than 60 years after his death. Yogananda authored the spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi which has sold millions of copies worldwide and is still the go-to book for seekers, philosophers and yoga enthusiasts today. George Harrison, Steve Jobs and Deepak Chopra are just a few of his most ardent disciples, in addition to the millions worldwide that practice yoga daily. Awake is an unconventional biography that weaves archival footage, surreal reenactments and first-person interviews to paint a comprehensive picture of a man who changed the world, one pose at a time. "The story...is compelling, as is the testimony of devotees...enough to make a modern soul look inward” (New York Times). D: Paola di Florio & Lisa Leeman, US, 2014, Runtime: 87m.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/filmspecialawake
Now Playing at the Nugget:
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road (Also in 3D)
Pitch Perfect 2
Upcoming Events Bulletin:
This Saturday. Dartmouth Television is putting on their entertainment spectacular Dartmouth Tonight, a TV show taped on campus every term with a LIVE studio audience. The show combines elements of SNL, The Daily Show, and the Tonight Show. May 23rd, at 9 PM, in Dartmouth Hall 105. Don't miss it. Tickets are available FOR FREE at the door, and will also be handed out throughout the week at the Hop Table."
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The 15S workshop schedule in The Digital Lab, all are set for Thursdays 4 - 5:30 pm:
- 5/28 After Effects Basics
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Ongoing Film Opportunities:
1. Interested in TV? Email [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
Feel free to contact me:
- If you have events that you want included on this email next week.
- If you can think of a way for me to improve these emails.
Best,
Mykel Nairne '16
Assistant to the Department of Film and Media Studies
Dartmouth College