Arts

Something in 'Shopgirl' adaptation gets lost in the translation

By Matt Hill | November 14, 2005

In Anand Tucker's "Shopgirl," Los Angeles is just another lonely, rain-swept city, illuminated by neon lights and TV-projector screens, that lives and breathes with the sounds of car horns and the muffled drone of highway traffic.

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Clooney assails national apathy in 'Good Night'

By A.J. Fox | November 14, 2005

Every once in a while, amidst the barrage of noisy, soulless Hollywood constructions that elbow their way into theatres every Friday, there emerges a film so perceptive and insightful that it magnetizes you to the screen for its entire running time.

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Graceful Lumet charms Dartmouth audience during tribute

By A. J. Fox | November 10, 2005

Sidney Lumet is one of the last great lions of the Golden Age of Film, a cinematic giant whose work has left its mark on both the history of the movies and the fabric of American life.

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Dartmouth theater department ready to unveil 'Inishmaan'

By Laura Romain | November 9, 2005

An Irish melody drifts pleasantly over the dimly-lit stage in the Moore Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, lending atmosphere to the theater department's recreation of a 1934 Irish village for its production of "The Cripple of Inishmaan." Through flourishes of convincingly accented banter, the dark comedy conveys a bleak yet undeniably humorous account of a town suffering from decaying interpersonal relationships and grappling with a clash between ignorance of the outside world and blind lust after a modern way of life.

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Dartmouth awaits 'Royal' treatment from Wind Symphony

By Marki Grimsley | November 8, 2005

Tonight, the Dartmouth Wind Symphony will present its fall concert, "Meet the Royals," in Spaulding Auditorium at 7 p.m.

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'Arular' conceals powerful social commentary with shiny hip-hop veneer

By Liz Ellison | November 8, 2005

British hip-hop artist Maya Arulpragasam grew up in poverty-stricken, war-torn Sri Lanka, where she and her family lived until the country's civil war forced them to flee to England.

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'Jarhead' becomes exercise in endurance

By Chetan Mehta | November 7, 2005

The term "jarhead" is military jargon for marine. The movie "Jarhead" is a simple synonym for tedium.

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Kennedy painful at first, painfully funny to conclude

By A.J. Fox | November 7, 2005

As I walked into "Jamie Kennedy: Unapologetic and Uncensored" on Thursday night, I ran down a mental list of what I knew about this enigmatic yet oddly ubiquitous comedian.

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Director Lumet to be honored by DFS

By Chip Shaffer | November 3, 2005

Although Hanover, N.H., is not exactly the epicenter of the entertainment world, Dartmouth still manages to bring in great music and film to campus via the Hopkins Center with only the occasional disappointment (i.e.

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The Rock cooks his usual stew of fun, gun and dumb with 'Doom'

By Daniel Simons | November 2, 2005

Given the limited concept, Andrzej Bartkowiak's cinematic re-imagining of the popular video game "Doom" works surprisingly well.

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Dartmouth mainstay Pinkas readies tribute to Schumann, Loeffler

By Erin McDonald | November 1, 2005

On Tuesday at 7 p.m., a sound familiar to many of Dartmouth's music students will fill Spaulding Auditorium, as Dartmouth's resident pianist Sally Pinkas will perform her autumn recital along with guest musicians Steve Larson on viola and Thomas Gallant on oboe. Erma Gattie Mellinger, a member of Dartmouth's music faculty, was scheduled to lend her vocals to the concert, but unfortunately had to drop out due to a lingering illness. Pinkas has taught piano and chamber-music classes at Dartmouth since 1985; in the upcoming spring term, she plans on taking a group of Dartmouth students to London for the foreign study program in music.

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There turns out to be holes in Madden's 'Proof'

By Chetan Mehta | October 31, 2005

Aimed squarely at the intelligentsia and film-festival crowd, "Proof" is a literate film in every sense of the word -- talky and serious, with occasional bursts of cynical humor.

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Rodrigues and Co. present different side of Brazilian music

By Lucy Randall | October 31, 2005

Brazilian bossa nova singer Virginia Rodrigues performed at the Hopkins Center on Friday night. Although Dartmouth students were sparse, Spaulding Auditorium was still filled with fans from the Hanover area.

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Mountain Goats highlight intimate FNR

By Jessilyn Yoo | October 27, 2005

This Friday, John Darnielle, vocalist and guitarist for The Mountain Goats, will be performing at Fuel along with bassist Peter Hughes, bringing with him a sound generated by personal experiences and pure human emotion.

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Marsalis amazes Dartmouth audience

By Christine Huggins | October 26, 2005

Some may remember Tuesday, Oct. 25 as the day of the first snowfall of the academic year, but more will remember it as the night that world-famous Wynton Marsalis played at Dartmouth. Marsalis' bio took up more than two pages in the program; among other things, he made 40 jazz and classical records, became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammy Awards and co-founded the jazz program at the Lincoln Center.

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Thrice fails to completely avoid emo banalities with 'Vheissu'

By Liz Ellison | October 25, 2005

Orange County quartet Thrice has been hailed as a post-hardcore trailblazing act for several years now, quietly building a respectable cult following with its first three successful studio albums.

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Jazz great Marsalis to play to packed crowd

By Lucy Randall | October 24, 2005

In a strangely appropriate turn of events, while the country struggles to rebuild New Orleans and its surroundings from the wrath of the hurricane that ruined it, Wynton Marsalis will play this Tuesday night at the Hopkins Center.

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'Everything' ends up not as illuminating as its source material

By Christopher Mah | October 24, 2005

Some books just aren't meant to be adapted to the screen, and despite a noble effort by director Liev Schreiber, Jonathan Safran Foer's acclaimed novel "Everything is Illuminated" is one of them. Foer, a 1999 Princeton graduate, burst onto the literary scene with the aforementioned 2002 novel, a loosely autobiographical chronicle of a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- and his quest to find a woman named Augustine, whom he believes saved his grandfather from the Nazis.

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Franz Ferdinand could have it better but still avoids sophomore slump

By Caitlin Kelly | October 20, 2005

Have you ever found yourself quickly switching radio channels or clicking through a playlist, barely hearing one song before tiring of it and switching to another?

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Stallone plans sixth 'Rocky' installment

By From Staff Reports | October 19, 2005

Yo Adrian! Rocky is planning another comeback. Fifteen years after starring in "Rocky V," Sylvester Stallone is reprising his role as the boxing champ in the sixth "Rocky" movie, publicist Michelle Bega said Monday. The 59-year-old actor will write and direct "Rocky Balboa," which will begin shooting in Philadelphia and Las Vegas next year.

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