Film Events This Week:
Monday, November 2nd, 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!
Monday, November 2nd, 7pm: Free Film: “Most Likely to Succeed”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Free and unticketed)
This is a film about parents, teachers and, most importantly, students, namely the grassroots
participants that make up all the statistics we hear about on the nightly news. We see their victories and defeats, their excitement and anxiety. While the students in both classes attempt to complete ambitious projects in anticipation of their year-end exhibition
(a standard at High Tech High), Whiteley begins to formulate a stronger thesis in defense of this new wave of education practices. Most Likely To Succeed is the best film ever done on the topic of school—both its past and its future. The film inspires
its audiences with a sense of purpose and possibility, and is bringing school communities together in re-imagining what our students and teachers are capable of doing.
D: Greg Whiteley, US, 2015, 86m
Discussion follows with producer and education activist/philanthropist Ted Dintersmith.
http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=37448
Tuesday,
November 3rd, 7pm: EYEWASH: John Driscoll
(VAC 001, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Free and Open to the Public)
John
Driscoll a composer / sound artist who has collaborated on David Tudor's Rainforest IV since
its inception in l973, and was a founding member of Composers Inside Electronics (CIE). He has toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe with CIE, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, David Tudor, and as a solo performer. His work involves rotating robotic loudspeakers,
compositions for unique architectural spaces, and sound installations. He was a curator of the Arts &Technologies program and developed an exhibition of audio technologies while at the NY Hall of Science and has developed numerous educational software projects.
He was Dir. of New Media for Slingo Inc. (a N.J. game company producing and licensing games for digital media) and was in charge of the development of two new TV game shows. He has recently been teaching a course on Game Design Concepts at CUNY CityTech in
Brooklyn.
http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=36226
Friday, November 6th, 7pm: Hop Film: “The Dinner”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Based on Herman Koch’s bestseller, The Dinner turns an ordinary family meal into a gripping morality play as the limits of polite society
and blood loyalty are tested. Massimo and Paolo are brothers of opposing moral character—the former an overconfident lawyer, the latter an altruistic pediatrician. When their children are implicated in a grisly act of violence, the skewed priorities and moral
shortcomings of their privileged lives are laid shockingly bare. D: Ivano De Matteo, Italy, subtitled, 2014, 92m https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hopfilmthedinner
Friday, November 6th, 10pm: Film Special: “The Man From U.N.C.L.E”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Free for Dartmouth Students only)
Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.centers on CIA
agent Solo and KGB agent Kuryakin. Forced to put aside longstanding hostilities, the two team up on a joint mission to stop a mysterious international criminal organization, which is bent on destabilizing the fragile balance of power through the proliferation
of nuclear weapons and technology. The duo’s only lead is the daughter of a vanished German scientist, (Alicia Vikander/Ex Machina) who is the key to infiltrating the criminal organization. This bickering, suspicious but super attractive trio must race
against time to prevent a worldwide catastrophe. D: Guy Ritchie, US, 2015, 116m
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/filmspecialthemanfromuncle
Saturday, November 7th, 5 & 8pm: Film Special: “Telluride Shorts Showcase”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Presented by Telluride Intern Andrew Kingsley '16
Occurring every Labor Day weekend in a box canyon mountain town, the Telluride Film Festival has remained one of the country’s finest arts events for 42 years. With no awards or paparazzi, it provides a mecca for film lovers of all stripes. Sprinkled throughout
the 40+ programs are roughly 25 shorts, some cherry-picked from the world’s best short festivals (France’s Cleremont-Ferrand). Tonight’s program features a selection of the best mini masterpieces from the 2015 festival. Approx. 90m.
Note: Some of these shorts contain explicit sexual and violent content. Viewer discretion advised. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/filmspeecialtellurideshorts
Sunday, November 8th, 4pm: DFS Film: “SEMBENE!”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Discussion with co-director Jason Silverman follows.
In 1952, Ousmane Sembéne, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible dream: to become the storyteller for a new Africa. SEMBENE! tells the unbelievable true story of the “father of African cinema,” the self-taught
filmmaker who fought a monumental, 50-year-long battle to give African stories to Africans. Told by colleague Samba Gadjigo, this true-life epic follows an ordinary man who became a hero to millions of marginalized people. D: Jason Silverman & Samba Gadjigo,
US, 2015, 82m
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/dfsfilmsembene
Now Playing at the Nugget:
Meadowland
Truth
The Martian
Steve Jobs
The 15F workshop
schedule in The Digital Lab, all are set for
Tuesdays AND
Thursdays 12 – 1:30pm:
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11/3 Topics Photoshop-Creating a Portrait
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11/10 Topics After Effects-VFX
~ Images in Motion ~
Lecture/Workshops Tuesdays 4-5:30pm
- 11/3 JAMIE DICKINSON – COLOR GRADING
Please RSVP:
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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 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
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