Film Events This Week:
Monday, January 12th, 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, January 13th, 6pm: Media Storytelling Workshop with Mariano Pensotti
(CATV Tip Top Studio in White River Junction, $10)
Programmed in conjunction with "Cineastas," Pensotti guides participants through his theory and practice of mining fictions from true stories. For film- and theater-makers, directors, screenwriters and visual artists. Ages 18 and up. Cosponsored by Community Access Television 8/10 (CATV 8/10). https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/cineastas_media_storytelling
Tuesday, January 13th, 7-9pm: Screening and Performance Series: "EYEWASH: CARLOS CASAS"
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Open to the Public)
Filmmaker and visual artist, Carlos Casas’ work is a mix of documentary film, cinema, and contemporary visual and sound arts. His last three films received awards from festivals around the world from Torino, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City and some of his video works has been presented in collective and personal exhibitions. In 2001 he started a trilogy of work dedicated to the most extreme environments on the planet: Patagonia, Aral Sea, and Siberia. In 2009 he began his ongoing project Avalanche about one of the worlds highest inhabited villages. He is currently working on a film about a cemetery of elephants on the borders between India and Nepal. He will share selections from his 1812 series among other works.
http://dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=32930
Thursday, January 15th, 7pm: "Cineastas" by Mariano Pensotti (Moore Theater, $10-35)
The hopes, fears and secrets of four Buenos Aires filmmakers—young and old, struggling and successful—are revealed in this thrilling and utterly original work by one of Latin America’s brightest theater talents. On an ingenious “split screen” set, virtuosic actors switch rapid-fire between the filmmakers’ lives and the “films” they are making, intertwining stories of love, loss, joy and despair. Will feature a post-performance discussion with the artists. In Spanish with English supertitles. Contains some adult language.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/cineastas
Friday, January 16th, 5pm: Panel Discussion: Real Fictions
(Hopkins Center Faculty Lounge, Free and Open to the Public)
In an era of reality television, what is the relationship between fact, fiction and personal identity? A discussion with Pensotti, local filmmaker John O’Brien (Tunbridge Trilogy) and Film & Media Professor Mark Williams. Moderated by Nora Jacobson (The Vermont Movie). Cosponsored by White River Indie Films.
Friday, January 16th, 7pm: Hop Film: Fury
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
WWII is ending but not for grizzled US tank commander Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) and his dirty, weary crew as they fight for every mile of Nazi Germany. The awful truth is that these men will almost certainly die at the very moment of Allied victory. A clanking, cramped tank is their home (and prison) and its nickname “Fury” sums up what they are dishing out to the Germans, and to each other. Rousing, punchy and always visceral, Fury is old-fashioned filmmaking at its best. D: David Ayer, US, 2014, 134m.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hop_film_fury
Friday, January 16th, 7pm: Hop Film: The Theory of Everything
(Spaulding Auditorium, $5 for students)
James Marsh (Man on Wire) brings to the screen the extraordinary life (and love) story of astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. At 21, one of the world’s greatest living minds was told he’d be dead by 25. Instead Hawking married a remarkable woman, fathered three children and changed the way the world thought about space and time. As Hawking, Eddie Redmayne (Les Misérables) gives an astonishing, genuinely visceral performance and Felicity Jones is equally formidable as his devoted and determined wife Jane.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hop_film_the_theory_of_everything
Friday, January 16th, 8pm: "Cineastas" by Mariano Pensotti (Moore Theater, $10-35)
The hopes, fears and secrets of four Buenos Aires filmmakers—young and old, struggling and successful—are revealed in this thrilling and utterly original work by one of Latin America’s brightest theater talents. On an ingenious “split screen” set, virtuosic actors switch rapid-fire between the filmmakers’ lives and the “films” they are making, intertwining stories of love, loss, joy and despair. Will feature a post-performance discussion with the artists. In Spanish with English supertitles. Contains some adult language. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/cineastas
Saturday, January 17th, 1pm: The Metropolitan Opera in HD: "The Merry Widow"
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $10)
The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates Paris in this enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director/choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers). This lavish new staging of Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow, which climaxes with dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxim’s, is here performed in English in a new translation by Jeremy Sams. Andrew Davis will conduct a cast that also includes Nathan Gunn as Hanna’s lover Danilo; Alek Shrader as the young nobleman Camille de Rosillon; Thomas Allen as the scheming Baron Zeta; and Broadway soprano Kelli O’Hara in her Met debut as the Baron’s coquettish wife Valencienne. Runtime: 177m. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/dartixstu/Online/met_opera_the_merry_widow
Saturday, January 17th, 7pm: Hop Film: Interstellar (Spaulding Auditorium, $5 for students)
In the future, the global economy has collapsed, food is scarce—and the 20th century is to blame. A mysterious rip in space-time opens and it's up to what’s left of NASA (Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain) to explore and offer hope for mankind. Incorporating theories by renowned physicist Kip Thorne, Christopher Nolan’s (Dark Knight Trilogy) time-bending space epic is as surreal as Kubrick’s 2001, yet always feels grounded by the strained family relations at its heart. D: Christopher Nolan, US, 2014, 169m. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/dartixstu/Online/hop_film_interstellar
Saturday, January 17th, 7pm: Hop Film: Let Your Light Shine
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Animation Prof. Jodie Mack’s cornucopia of shorts explores formal principles of abstract cinema through found materials, from merch tables to museum stores, and the role of decoration in daily life. The centerpiece of this collection, Dusty Stacks of Mom, includes live vocal accompaniment, with witty, playful lyrics set to Pink Floyd’s album Dark Side of the Moon. “Rather than a mere ironic goof on pop-culture detritus, there’s heart in her film’s meticulous craft of reappropriation” (The New York Times). D: Jodie Mack, US, 2014, 75m. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/dartixstu/Online/hop_film_let_your_light_shine
Sunday, January 18th, 1pm: The Metropolitan Opera in HD: "The Merry Widow"
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $10)
The great Renée Fleming stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates Paris in this enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director/choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers). This lavish new staging of Lehár’s effervescent operetta The Merry Widow, which climaxes with dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxim’s, is here performed in English in a new translation by Jeremy Sams. Andrew Davis will conduct a cast that also includes Nathan Gunn as Hanna’s lover Danilo; Alek Shrader as the young nobleman Camille de Rosillon; Thomas Allen as the scheming Baron Zeta; and Broadway soprano Kelli O’Hara in her Met debut as the Baron’s coquettish wife Valencienne. Runtime: 177m. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/dartixstu/Online/met_opera_the_merry_widow
Sunday, January 18th, 4pm: DFS Film: Tracks
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Mia Wasikowska stars as Robyn Davidson in this incredible true story of a young woman’s perilous solo trek across 1,700 miles of stunning Australian outback. With financial support from a National Geographic photographer (Adam Driver), she sets off on this inspiring journey with only her dog and four unpredictable camels for company. “Alternately haunting, inspiring and dreamily meditative, this is a visually majestic film of transfixing moods and textures” (Hollywood Reporter). D: John Curran, Australia, 2013, 112m https://hop.dartmouth.edu/dartixstu/Online/dfs_film_tracks
Now Playing at the Nugget:
The Imitation Game
Into the Woods
Wild (Ends Thursday, January 15th)
Inherent Vice
American Sniper (Opens Friday, January 16th)
Ongoing Film Opportunities:
1. Like making movies or want to learn how? Email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to see how you can get involved with Stories Growing Films and like on FB: http://www.facebook.com/dartmouthstoriesgrowingfilms
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3. In the Digital Lab (in the Black Family Visual Arts Center) you can learn about working with Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and other photo/video editing software. Email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> for more info.
4. 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
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