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(05/11/09 6:24am)
Someday in the not-too-distant future, when the ravages of industrial pollution have permanently destroyed the planet's ozone layer and driven global temperatures up to cataclysmic levels, the survival of the human species will depend on plentiful air conditioning. Dry land and a steady food supply will be tough to find, of course, but such concerns are best pondered from the confines of a comfortably chilled environment. And what better place for throngs of overheated humans to congregate than inside the temperature-controlled embrace of the multiplex? For the price of a movie ticket, audiences can enjoy a reprieve from summer heat, while simultaneously experiencing a barrage of audiovisual stimuli administered in crisp two-hour installments.
(08/19/08 7:03am)
I'm guessing they were all too busy laughing. Although "Tropic Thunder" is a film of extraordinarily poor taste, it is also deliriously entertaining -- an incendiary satirical bullet fired into the heart of Hollywood's bloated ego.
(08/17/07 5:15am)
This little cherub grows into Tristan (Charlie Cox), the befuddled young hero of "Stardust." Tristan makes the mistake of falling in love with Victoria (Sienna Miller), a sort of Paris Hilton for the 18th-century set, who notices a shooting star one evening and demands that Tristan retrieve it in order to win her affection. Since public transportation would obviously be implausible at this stage of European history, Tristan arrives at the star's crater by means of a magical teleportation candle left to him by his mother.
(09/25/06 9:00am)
The trailer for "The Black Dahlia" refers to its subject as "the most notorious murder in California history." It's easy to understand why. On Jan. 15 ,1947, the mutilated body of a porn star named Becky Short was discovered just outside of Los Angeles. The corpse had been cut in half, its organs removed, and the mouth slashed open from ear to ear. The ensuing investigation and media circus lasted for several months, but the identity of the killer has remained a mystery to this day. Given the story's sensational mixture of salaciousness and sadism, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood turned its wandering eye to this sordid tale, and now here we have a fictionalized version of the event courtesy of "Scarface" director Brian De Palma.
(08/17/06 9:00am)
What do Samuel L. Jackson, a Boeing 747 and a 20-foot-long Burmese python have in common? Well for one thing, if you get in their way you'll probably die. But more importantly, they are the three key ingredients for a cinematic phenomenon that's exploding onto movie screens across the nation at midnight Thursday. This phenomenon has the most devastatingly unambiguous title in the history of film: "Snakes on a Plane."
(08/15/06 9:00am)
Out on the wooded slopes of Moose Mountain, far beyond the confines of civilization, seven Dartmouth student have elected to spend their summer rebuilding a piece of Dartmouth history, Harris Cabin.
(08/08/06 9:00am)
"A Scanner Darkly" is one big train-wreck of a movie, but at least it's a marvel to look at. Initially shot in live action, the film's 100 minutes of footage were subsequently slaved over by a team of animators who painstakingly colored in each frame, turning the movie's washed-out urban landscape into a startlingly realistic cartoon. The resulting images are composed of monochromatic planes that never quite blend, but instead slide together to create an alien visualization of reality that's nothing short of mesmerizing. If the film's arresting imagery had been put to the service of an equally compelling storyline, "A Scanner Darkly" would have been a masterpiece. Alas, the listless sci-fi psychodrama hiding beneath the visuals' liquid beauty reveals itself to be devastatingly mundane.
(08/03/06 9:00am)
While some Dartmouth students spend their summer days basking in the air-conditioned comfort of the library, others travel a few miles down the road each week to work outdoors at the Dartmouth Organic Farm. Summer term is the busiest season at the farm, a time when students toil away growing crops and organizing various farm-related activities for the community.
(07/13/06 9:00am)
Githa Hariharan, a prominent Indian writer and literary scholar, is spending the summer at Dartmouth through the Montgomery Fellows Program. Hariharan delivered a public lecture and reading entitled, "In Search of Our Other Selves" to a packed audience at Filene Auditorium Tuesday afternoon as part of the Montgomery Endowment's two-term series, "Reimagining India."
(07/13/06 9:00am)
There's a scene in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" when Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) gets smashingly drunk off a flagon of rum. That Depp's behavior during this scene is nearly indistinguishable from his character's more sober moments is not a flaw; it is the genius of his performance. Slurring his voice into a thick cockney mumble, his chiseled features buried beneath mounds of dreadlocks and eye-shadow, Depp swashes his buckle from one end of the screen to the other with the freewheeling abandon of a bohemian rock star gone mad. In an age when action heroes all seem to be carved from the same stoic marble, Depp's gleefully iconoclastic portrayal deserves to be remembered as one of the great comic concoctions of the past few years.
(07/06/06 9:00am)
Members of the 2008 Class Council met with representatives of several Greek organizations on Wednesday to plan a summer event that will serve as a replacement for Tubestock. The celebration, so far untitled, will take place at the BEMA on Aug. 12, and will include live music and free food. Students at the meeting broke up into five subcommittees to handle various logistical aspects of the event. The meeting was conducted by Tess Reeder '08, the class council president. "We're trying hard not to make a lame alternative to Tubestock," she said. "Doing it last minute, it's probably not going to be as good as it can get, but hopefully if people have fun this year it can become a tradition to build on in future summers."
(06/27/06 9:00am)
The first time engineering professor Ronald Lasky taught the Engineering 3 course "Materials: The Substance of Civilization," he struggled to find more than 20 students willing to enroll. This term, Lasky is struggling to find a classroom that can hold the over 300 students signed up for the class.
(06/27/06 9:00am)
By AJ Fox
(06/22/06 9:00am)
"It's the all-American road trip, but with a purpose," said Elliot May '06, the student in charge of organizing the trip. "We want to spur conversation and encourage people to start thinking about sustainable fuels."
(05/30/06 9:00am)
What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about your hair? Is it a source of style, carefully coiffed to lure members of the opposite sex? Is it a morning inconvenience that simply refuses to stay down in the back no matter how long you spend brushing it? For some of the guys out there, is it a precious commodity that's vanishing at an alarming rate? Now here's the real question: How many of you have ever thought of your hair as a potential work of art?
(05/15/06 9:00am)
A group of intrepid Dartmouth students braved the cold and rain to participate in the Dartmouth Outing Club's annual Spring Weekend Saturday. The DOC hosted a series of day-long beginner trips into the outdoors, culminating with a home-cooked dinner and live music at the Moosilauke Ravine Lodge.
(05/12/06 9:00am)
A series of debates, interactive discussions and formal presentations entitled "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Series on the Alcohol Culture at Dartmouth," were held throughout the week to stimulate discussion about the positive and negative issues of drinking. Topics included whether or not drinking was a problem on the Dartmouth campus, the effects of drinking on minority cultures, whether the drinking age should be changed and alcohol and its relationship to sexual violence. Active Minds, Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors, Sexual Assault Peer Advisors, and the C. Everett Koop Scholars were among the event's sponsors.
(05/09/06 9:00am)
If you're willing to accept two hours of scenes like that, chances are you'll have a blast at "Mission: Impossible III." If you think what I've just described sounds stupid and preposterous, then this may not be the film for you. This is a thoroughly stupid and preposterous movie, and to go in expecting something other than stupidity and preposterousness would be a grave mistake. But even the most serious of audiences should consider giving "M:I-3" a try -- because, for all its absurdity, this happens to be one of the most fun movies I've seen all year.
(05/05/06 9:00am)
A team of students at the Thayer School of Engineering hosted Formula Hybrid, the first collegiate car race to use only hybrid and electric vehicles, at the New Hampshire International Speedway on Thursday. The event was accompanied by a conference held Wednesday on the development of hybrid cars.
(04/28/06 9:00am)
Today, the Organic Farm celebrates its 10th anniversary with a day of workshops, lectures and nature walks that culminates in a birthday carrot cake and a bluegrass concert by the Fogey Mountain Boys.