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(02/19/13 4:00am)
There is a problem inherent in many great works of literature that are subsequently adapted for the screen: there are often multiple iterations of the same story being made approximately every decade. One can see this primarily in the works of literary greats William Shakespeare and Jane Austen. I, for one, found my eyes rolling far back into my head when I heard that there was to be yet another adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" coming out this year, this time written by Julian Fellowes, creator of the hit drama "Downton Abbey" no less. That's not so much a dig at "Downton Abbey" as it is an attempt to mentally prepare myself for what is sure to be another run-of-the-mill adaptation of a story I have heard and seen a thousand times over.
(02/14/13 4:00am)
"The Liar," adapted by Ives from the classic French comedy by Pierre Corneille, focuses on the exploits of Dorante, a charming and handsome man who has the unfortunate propensity to make outrageous falsehoods. One day, he meets two beautiful women named Clarice and Lucrece and takes a fancy to Clarice. Unfortunately for him, he thinks that Clarice's name is Lucrece.
(02/06/13 4:00am)
Columbia University's Arts Initiative is perhaps most comparable to the College's. Started by university president Lee Bollinger in 2004, it is an ongoing program designed to make the arts community more accessible and encourage students to partake in arts courses to try something new.
(02/06/13 4:00am)
When Americans learn about European history, we learn about countries like France, Spain and England. These countries were the colonizers and the birthplaces of the Enlightenment and have given us some of the world's best cultural artifacts.
(11/08/12 4:00am)
A quasi remake of Louis Malle's "Le Feu Follet" (1963), "Oslo, August 31st" opens with a Woody Allen-esque homage to Oslo, capital city of Norway. As random people narrate significant moments of their lives as they relate to the city, Trier takes us on a tour of his hometown. The film, however, is no "Manhattan" (1978) the narrations become tangled up in one another, and there are no majestic shots of Oslo's skyscrapers because Oslo doesn't really have any skyscrapers. As a result, the sense of majesty that Trier tries to impart becomes lost in translation, a seemingly appropriate metaphor for the rest of the film.
(10/29/12 3:00am)
When she was in her teens, Stern was more inclined toward theater, acting in plays whenever she could, she said. When she came to Dartmouth, she still dabbled in theater but expanded her studies into the film department. Stern found Dartmouth's isolation to be a blessing for her creatively, she said.
(10/25/12 2:00am)
Growing up, Matta never thought he would become a musician or that his beatboxing would lead to a professional career. His family pursued music more as a hobby than something to be made into an actual career, Matta said.
(10/11/12 2:00am)
With a career that includes multiple television shows, several Academy Award nominations and the contribution of some of pop culture's most referenced moments, Buck Henry '52 may just be the most successful alumnus Dartmouth has had in the arts. He returns to the College on Oct. 14 for "BUCK AMOK!," a career retrospective talk in the Black Family Visual Arts Center's new Loew Auditorium, which will pay tribute to the enormously talented artist.
(10/02/12 2:00am)
The troupe was founded in 1981 by a group of Senate staffers who were trying to figure out who would provide the entertainment at that year's Christmas party, according to Elaina Newport, one of the co-founders of the group. After exhausting several ideas, including one for a Nativity play, the staffers came up with the idea to make fun of their own occupation.
(09/20/12 2:00am)
"Prometheus," however, is a worthy addition to Scott's canon. While not officially a prequel, "Prometheus" takes place in the same universe as the "Alien" series and introduces a new set of mythology and ideas to explore. In the year 2089, archaeologists and lovers Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway, played by Noomi Rapace and Logan Marshall-Green, respectively, discover concrete proof regarding the origins of humanity. With this evidence, the two set out on an expedition on the scientific vessel Prometheus, funded by the wealthy Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), to find our makers.
(09/13/12 2:00am)
Telluride and the College have a special relationship: Hopkins Center Film Director Bill Pence and his wife Sheila are two of the co-founders of the festival. Early in his tenure at Dartmouth, Pence asked then-director of the Hopkins Center Sheldon Stanfill if he would be interested in showing some Telluride films at Dartmouth.
(05/30/12 2:00am)
Director Wes Anderson returns with his latest film "Moonrise Kingdom" (May 25), the story of two prepubescent children who run away together and the ensuing search for the duo. Starring Bruce Willis and Edward Norton, the film looks as quirky and charming as anything Anderson has ever directed.
(05/23/12 2:00am)
At the height of their popularity and before the release of their final album, The Clash performed a sold-out concert at Thompson Arena on April 19, 1984 to a "raucous" Dartmouth crowd comprised of students that had not seen a major concert since The Allman Brothers band in 1981, according to an article in The Dartmouth written by Nick Armington '84.
(05/23/12 2:00am)
Martin, who won Best Bluegrass Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards, decided to unite his talent with the 2011 International Bluegrass Music Association Entertainers of the Year, the Steep Canyon Rangers.
(05/03/12 2:00am)
When "The Hunger Games" (2012), the film adaptation of the first book, opened to a raucous reaction usually only elicited by the sales at Best Buy on Black Friday there were talks of expanding the trilogy into a tetralogy. I myself, having never read the books, decided to check out the movie to see what the fuss was about. After about two and a half hours of post-apocalyptic child warfare, the lights went back on in the theater, and I still had no idea why people were hooting and hollering over a piece of watered-down, commercialized fluff.
(04/23/12 2:00am)
Thalheim was born in Berlin in 1974 but graduated from high school in Indiana before moving back to Germany. After completing his education, he published a book on Polish film history and directed a few short films before hitting it big with his first feature-length movie "Netto" (2005), followed by "And Along Come Tourists" (2007). He brought the latter film to Dartmouth two years ago, and German professor Gert Germunden was thoroughly impressed, Thalheim said.
(04/17/12 2:00am)
Telluride, Colo. is home to one of the world's most prestigious film festivals. The well-known Telluride Film Festival tends to overshadow the other festivals held in Telluride, including the Mountainfilm Festival, which primarily spotlights films featuring the outdoors and extreme sports. The festival's traveling program, "Mountainfilm on Tour," made a stop last Friday at Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center with a program hosted by Mountainfilm executive director Peter Kenworthy '77.
(04/05/12 2:00am)
Pascoal was born in rural Brazil in 1936 to a family of farmers. Born with albinism, he couldn't work in the fields with his family because of fear of overexposure to the harsh South American sun. When he was seven years old, Pascoal picked up his father's accordion, and his life changed forever. His mother initally mistook Pascoal's playing for his father's, Pascoal said in an interview with The Dartmouth. Because Pascoal's native language is Portuguese, his interview was translated by his agent, Bill Smith.
(04/04/12 2:00am)
Adapted from the play "God of Carnage" by Yasmina Reza, "Carnage" (2011) serves as a hilariously bleak display of what happens when two sets of parents unleash their intense personalities in a Brooklyn apartment. While differing in some obvious ways from the similarly themed novel "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, which is set on a deserted island and features a group of young boys, "Carnage" also exemplifies the primordial instincts of humans when they are deprived of societal constructs.
(04/02/12 2:00am)
Born in India, Das comes from a long line of dancers. His family owned one of the oldest dance studios in India, and his father was an accomplished dancer in his own right. Das began his training in kathak a form of classical Indian dance that aims to tell a story through its movements at the age of nine.