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"Life of Pi" (2012) has a particularly simple plot: a boy, left alone with just his thoughts and a tiger, is stranded in the middle of the ocean.
"Life of Pi" (2012) has a particularly simple plot: a boy, left alone with just his thoughts and a tiger, is stranded in the middle of the ocean.
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff The legendary Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater enthralled audiences in Moore Theater this weekend with performances both new and old.
Make no mistake: "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23" is not one of this generation's television masterpieces.
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Students looking to incorporate a dash of bourgeois into their Saturday night by spending the evening listening to the symphonic melodies of Prokofiev and Beethoven can look no further than the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra's winter term concert. The concert will feature two major works of music: Prokofiev's third piano concerto and seventh symphony by Beethoven.
James Nachtwey '70, an internationally-renowned photojournalist, has captured images of war and social conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East, Russia and Eastern Europe, as well within the United States.
A few months before I came to Dartmouth, I turned on my television one Sunday night to find the cable news networks in a buzz over an unexpected announcement from President Barack Obama.
The last time the Academy and I kind of agreed on a Best Picture winner was when the exciting and timely "The Hurt Locker" (2009) won over the visually impressive but wholly unoriginal "Avatar" (2009). Since then, I've watched the Academy give its most prestigious award to films that can be considered inferior in retrospect.
Social media outlets were bombarded last week with outrage over the death of Matthew Crawley in the season finale of "Downton Abbey" last Sunday.
Directed by: Dustin HoffmanWith: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly98 minutesRated PG-13 "Quartet" takes place at a home for elderly musicians who come together to perform in their retirement.
STRFKR, briefly known in a less bold phase as Pyramid or Pyramidd, is an electro-pop band based in Portland, Ore.
Zonia Moore / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble stepped outside its comfort zone this term, performing an array of modern and contemporary concert music.
Not sure who to count on to score this year's Academy Awards on Sunday?
Contemporary Caribbean artists will bring awareness of Haiti's financial and educational struggles to Hanover this week as part of the inaugural Porter Foundation Symposium, which kicks off today. The conference, titled "Haiti and Dartmouth at the Crossroads," will bring together working Haitian artists with businessmen, healthcare specialists and government officials, including former Haiti prime minister Michele Pierre-Louis, to generate new initiatives to assist Haiti's efforts to recover from the devastation of the 2010 earthquake. The three-day symposium will feature interdisciplinary projects in education, healthcare and economic development, according to Amita Kulkarni '10, a conference coordinator and presidential fellow in global health at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. The event intends to underscore the role that institutions of higher education can play in Haiti's reconstruction. "It's been over three years since the earthquake but there is still a lot of work to be done," Jack Wilson, studio art professor and a conference coordinator, said.
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tonight, audiences will spend the night enraptured by the sound of beating drums and didgeridoo as the Black Arm Band, an indigenous Australian music group, opens their U.S.
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.
Nancy Ghertner's feature-length documentary "After I Pick the Fruit" opens at a seemingly typical grocery store.
Michael Haneke's "Amour," which features French actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, follows the tender love story of an elderly Parisian couple as they are nearing the end of their lives.
Although Dartmouth students pride themselves in tackling challenges of many forms, from academic to athletic to artistic, few can say they have faced live bears and lived to tell about it. Students in film and media studies professor Jeffrey Ruoff's introductory videomaking class spent the winter producing a documentary about Ben Kilham, a local scientist and farmer from Lyme who is raising and studying 27 orphaned black bear cubs.
As the snow begins to melt and the days grow longer, students are growing restless for the new season just around the corner.