Film Events This Week:
Monday, April 13th, 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, April 14th, 7pm: EYEWASH: Scott Stark
(VAC 001, Black Family Visual Arts Center, Free and Open to the Public)
Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Born and educated in the Midwest, he has always been interested in aggressively pushing his work beyond the threshold of traditional viewing expectations, challenging the audience to question its relationship to the cinematic process; yet he also tries to build into the work elements of humor and incongruity that allow the viewer an entryway into the work while maintaining a critical distance. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the theater, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience.
Thursday, April 16th, 7pm: National Theatre Live in HD: “The Hard Problem”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $10 for students)
Acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) returns to the National Theatre with his highly-anticipated new play, directed by Nicholas Hytner (Othello, Hamlet). Hilary, a young psychology researcher at a brain science institute, is nursing a private sorrow and a troubling question at work, where psychology and biology meet. If there is nothing but matter, what is consciousness? This is ‘the hard problem’ which puts Hilary at odds with her colleagues who include her first mentor Spike, her boss Leo and the billionaire founder of the institute, Jerry. Is the day coming when the computer and the MRI scanner will answer all the questions psychology can ask? Meanwhile Hilary needs a miracle, and she is prepared to pray for one. (180m) https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/ntlthehardproblem
Friday, April 17th, 6:30pm & 9pm: Hop Film: “Still Alice”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Julianne Moore, earning an Oscar for this career-high performance, “shows us acting at its best, alive with ferocity and feeling and committed to truth” (Rolling Stone). Alice (Moore) is a renowned 50-year-old linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's, Alice's struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking and inspiring. Here is the rare film possessed with the courage required to shine a light into that abyss knowing full well that down is the only way out. D: Richard Glatzer, US, 2015, Runtime: 101 min. https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hopfilmstillalice
Saturday, April 18th, 7pm: Film Special: “The Hunting Ground”
(Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, $5 for students)
Discussion follows with special guests Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, led by Dartmouth’s Title IX Coordinator Heather Lindkvist. Over the last few years, the shocking reality of sexual assault on US campuses has entered the national dialogue in a way it never has before, and The Hunting Ground—a startling documentary from the makers of The Invisible War—is an essential part of this conversation. While deploring institutional cover-ups and a culture of victim blaming, the film also gives us many protagonists to champion, such as activists Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, who filed Title IX lawsuits against UNC. Pino and Clark will join Dartmouth’s Title IX Coordinator Heather Lindkvist for a discussion after the film—come support their incredible work and be a part of the solution to this crisis. D: Kirby Dick, US, 2015, Runtime: 105 min.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/filmspecialthehuntingground
Saturday, April 18th, 7pm: Hop Film: “The Black Sea” (Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Past Dartmouth Film Award winner Kevin MacDonald (Last King of Scotland) meldsWages of Fear and Das Boot with this taut, immersive thriller of desperate men and monstrous machines. A rogue submarine captain (Jude Law) pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure, rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea—but the claustrophobic environment and his increasingly mutinous crew might be a bigger danger than the ocean outside. “A superbly shot men-on-a-mission thriller with chest-tightening tension” (Empire). D: Kevin MacDonald, UK, 2014, Runtime: 115m
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/hopfilmtheblacksea
Sunday, April 19th, 4pm: DFS Film: “Girlhood”
(Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center, $5 for students)
Girlhood gloriously captures the choices facing a tough, intelligent, basically decent young person in a world that views her with indifference and suspicion. Marieme is a 16-year-old black girl living in the projects outside of Paris. Fed up with her family and school, our shy heroine joins a girl gang—discovering courage, camaraderie and fun for the first time. “Ms. Sciamma revels in the risky, reckless exuberance of adolescence and in the sheer joy of filming it “(New York Times). D: Céline Sciamma, France, subtitled, 2015, Runtime: 112 min.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/dfsfilmgirlhood
Now Playing at the Nugget:
Home
Home in 3D
Cinderella
Woman in Gold
The Longest Ride
Child 44 (Special Screening on Thursday, April 16th only)
Upcoming Film Events Bulletin:
Professor Ruoff is hosting a masterclass with film director Abderrahmane Sissako on Mon., April 20, 12:15-1:45pm in the Digital Lab.
Sissako will receive a Dartmouth Film Award on Tues., April 21 at 7pm in Loew, where there will be a screening/Q&A of his new film Timbuktu (2014), nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/tributetosissako
**To attend the masterclass, which is free and includes lunch, students should email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. There is limited seating, so whoever responds first gets in. Sissako will speak in French and Ruoff will translate.**
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EYEWASH: Experimental Images and Sounds will continue this spring on Tuesdays at 7pm in VAC001:
* 4/14, Scott Stark
* 4/21, Jaime E. Olivier La Rosa
* 5/12, Nic Collins
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The 15S workshop schedule in The Digital Lab, all are set for Thursdays 4 - 5:30 pm:
* 4/16 Photoshop basics
* 4/30 Illustrator Basics
* 5/14 Premiere Pro Basics
* 5/28 After Effects Basics
Please RSVP: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Ongoing Film Opportunities:
1. Interested in TV? Email [log in to unmask] to see how you can get involved in Dartmouth Television![Description: https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/RnNZfQn2o2xpggJQqefCOervMbPIci5mujDPJnvl43kv6Rtxjyh5gHN_JKVzeU-aaGz3pePFgxfoAAtZJZNx8mveVTc-11j98EfuAJVcumUenA=s0-d-e1-ft#https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif]
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
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