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(03/26/12 2:00am)
This past weekend, the film adaptation of the first book in Suzanne Collins' vastly popular "Hunger Games" trilogy opened with a bang. With the "Harry Potter" series finished and "Twilight" set to end this year, "The Hunger Games'" rabid fanbase should bolster the film's box office. The series is so popular that the over-saturation of merchandise tie-ins is inevitable.
(03/06/12 4:00am)
Raabe and the Orchester first came to Hanover four years ago, and the response was raucous, according to Hopkins Center Programming Director Margaret Lawrence.
(03/05/12 4:00am)
At the 84th Academy Awards, Angelina Jolie wore a black Versace dress with a split revealing her leg. The dress caused a stir on the red carpet that undoubtedly would have been the talk of the fashion police the next day. The dress may not have strayed too far from entertainment news had Jolie not taken the stage that night. After presenting the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay to "The Descendants," co-winner Jim Rash (Dean Pelton from "Community") mocked Jolie by standing with his leg prominently sticking out, thus giving rise to "Jolieing." The stance went viral immediately with many people imitating Jolie's pose while doing ordinary activities such as shopping, working and eating. The leg has even found its way into famous pictures such as the Apollo 11 moon landing and the University of California, Davis pepper spray incident last year. If there is one thing to take away from "Jolieing," however, it is that maybe a traditional dress is not such a bad idea after all.
(02/28/12 4:00am)
To almost no one's surprise, "The Artist" (2011) became the 84th film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and the first (mostly) silent film to win since the inaugural ceremony in 1927. For many moviegoers, the film is their first introduction to black-and-white silent films and the fondly remembered Golden Era of Hollywood. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, "The Artist" won five of the most prestigious Oscars on Sunday night including Best Picture: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Jean Dujardin's performance, Best Directing for director Michel Hazanavicius, Best Costume Design for Mark Bridges and Best Original Score for Ludovic Bource.
(02/27/12 4:00am)
Best Picture: "The Artist"
(02/21/12 4:00am)
Northern Stage, a regional non-profit theater in White River Junction, recently began its run of David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," offering a different type of dramatic offering than Dartmouth's student productions. The play, which premiered on Feb. 15, will run until Mar. 4.
(02/13/12 4:00am)
During the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble's annual Winter Carnival concert on Saturday in Spaulding Auditorium, the jazz band performed a medley of funk tunes composed by and performed with special guest Joseph Bowie, the founder and leader of the jazz group Defunkt.
(02/06/12 4:00am)
Bentley's Nose, a new theater group formed by Dartmouth alumni, will come to the Hopkins Center this week to perform their play "The Reluctant Lesbian." Throughout the week, Bentley's Nose will work with senior theater majors in a series of workshops that aim to forge alumni and student connections while bridging the gap between graduation and a career in the professional theater world, according to Kate Mulley '05 and Matt Cohn '08, the founders of Bentley's Nose.
(01/23/12 4:00am)
The Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the National Theatre in London are respectively 270 and 3,000 miles away from Hanover, but faculty, students and local residents can watch performances from the comfort of the Hopkins Center thanks to the broadcasting services each company offers.
(01/09/12 4:00am)
Puppetry, a form of entertainment typically associated with the Muppets and other family-oriented performances, shifts from its traditional lighthearted nature to offer a thoughtful look at the state of our Earth and a potential apocalypse in "Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey," which performed in Moore Theater in the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Jan. 6 and 7.
(11/21/11 4:00am)
It is a well-accepted fact that Ryan Gosling is something of a sex symbol. Some may argue, however, that women should not idolize a man based solely on his appearance, as it is superficial and degrading. With the Tumblr "Feminist Ryan Gosling," there is finally a compromise. The setup is simple enough: Images of Gosling from his films or public life are superimposed with the standard greeting of "Hey Girl" followed by feminist theory that has been warped into pickup lines. These include Jacques Derrida's politics of sexual difference or Michel Foucault's theory of power. Created as a study aid by Danielle Henderson, a graduate student in the University of Wisconsin's women and gender studies program, the blog went viral quickly. There's been no response from Gosling yet, but it's likely that he's getting even more popular with the ladies than Simone de Beauvoir's theory of the lost female genius.
(11/21/11 4:00am)
Horror is used to greatest effect in books and film, and Susan Hill's novel "The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story" is no exception. With this weekend's student production of "The Woman in Black" at the Moore Theater, this horror tale makes the jump to the stage with mixed results.
(11/14/11 4:00am)
"We wanted to deal with topics as current as possible," theater lecturer Christian Kohn, who directed the play, said. "It becomes a vital piece of theater and not a museum piece."
(11/02/11 3:00am)
This unusual cause and effect is the subject of "The Great Flood" (2011), a collaboration between filmmaker Bill Morrison and musician Bill Frisell. Morrison's film will be screened Thursday at 7 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium with live accompaniment performed by Frisell and his band.
(10/17/11 2:00am)
The night began with a compilation reel of Macdonald's films, starting with "One Day in September" (1999) and ending with a sneak peek of his next film "Marley" (2011). Afterwards, Macdonald received the Dartmouth Film Award from Hopkins Center film director Bill Pence.
(10/10/11 2:00am)
If director David Lynch ever made an internet meme, this would be it. "Going to the Store" is a 45-second clip of a naked, computer generated man moving in a wildly exaggerated manner through a suburban neighborhood. Further adding to its bizarre nature is the ridiculously happy song "Little Ships" by Jean Jacques Perrey, which serves as the video's soundtrack. Despite its absurdity, "Going to the Store" has racked up over five million views since it was uploaded a few weeks ago on YouTube. Directed by David Lewandowski, the lead graphics animator for "Tron: Legacy" (2010), the video has spawned a number of real life parodies of impressive quality. Despite its amusing nature, one can't help but notice the protagonist never makes it to the store. I'd like to think that's some sort of social commentary, but that's probably not the case.