There’s an image in Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” that I still see when I close my eyes at night: a little boy approaches a burning greenhouse. He is inexplicably dripping wet — with water? with gasoline? — and he stares at the flames in a trance.
January 16, 2019 7:02pm
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in the “The Mule,” a drama inspired by a New York Times Article written by Nick Schenk that detailed the Sinaloa Cartel’s use of a 90 year old drug mule. Eastwood plays Earl Stone, a down-on-his luck former daylily horticulturist who becomes a drug runner, or mule, for a cartel in Illinois.
January 14, 2019 8:32pm
On paper, Colton Underwood was the obvious choice for the twenty-third Bachelor. He fits the mold of the generic pretty boy, was a former professional football player, and runs a non-profit for kids with cystic fibrosis.
January 14, 2019 8:32pm
In my review for the second season of “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” I commented that the Netflix adaptation for the beloved, darkly comic 13-book children’s series by Lemony Snicket (pen name for Daniel Handler), was unique for its remarkable consistency if nothing else.
January 14, 2019 8:32pm
Choreographer Pam Tanowitz and pianist Simone Dinnerstein tackle Bach’s equally canonical and intricate “Goldberg Variations” in a collaborative piece entitled “New Work for Goldberg Variations.” Tanowitz’s company performed the new piece this past weekend at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
January 10, 2019 5:30pm
Katie Wee ’19 is about as liberal arts as it gets: as a music major as well as a premed student, Wee’s experience at Dartmouth has crossed over disciplinary lines. Wee is a music major and plays violin in the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, serving as Concert Mistress on and off for the last two years.
January 9, 2019 6:07pm
Adam McKay seems to have something of an obsession with the American culture of corruption and excess.
January 7, 2019 10:42pm
Last June, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby released her Netflix stand-up special “Nanette.” The show received critical acclaim and an entire literature of think-pieces, not because it was especially funny or because the jokes were radical (although they were), but because Gadsby used her special to question what it means to use self-deprecating comedy as a woman, a queer individual and as an “other” who exists in the margins.
January 7, 2019 10:41pm
In his video “Ludonarrative Dissonance,” film essayist Dan Olson advocates the use of the term “Cinemanarrative Dissonance.” The term describes when an aspect of a film flounders because two or more creative departments did competent work that was nevertheless contradictory due to the lack of a strong, unified vision for the overall product.
January 7, 2019 10:43pm
Italian writer Elena Ferrante’s operatic Neapolitan Quartet, a series that spans four volumes and six decades of friendship, traces the intertwined lives of characters Lila and Lenù.
January 6, 2019 3:51pm
I’ll be the first to admit it — I am not a gamer. I don’t know much about any specific kind of game, about the world of gaming or of gamers in general.
January 2, 2019 5:51pm
Two years ago, I was in the minority when I declared “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” to be less than the sum of its parts.
November 13, 2018 11:18am
The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra is tired. The students and community members that make up the group have rehearsed intensely in preparation for their concert, which was held this past November 10, and the next item on their agenda, a tour of Italy, is this upcoming interim period.
November 12, 2018 8:40pm
In Yosemite Valley, a massive rock formation looms over the sweeping vistas of picturesque splendor.
November 12, 2018 8:46pm
This coming interim period, the play “Coriolanus” will be performed in the Hopkins Center for the Arts by the acclaimed Stratford Theatre Company based in Stratford, Ontario.
November 8, 2018 7:21pm
Aaron Lit ’19, a math student from Hong Kong, has a mission to smooth out any wrinkles in your preconceived notions of fashion while also saving marine life.
November 7, 2018 7:22pm
When I saw “The Old Man and the Gun” last weekend at The Nugget, I was easily one of the youngest people in the audience.
November 7, 2018 7:21pm
In May of 2016, Carene Mekertichyan ’16 made her dream into a reality when her senior project, a production of the late Ntozake Shange’s Obie Award-winning play and choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf” was performed for the greater Dartmouth community.
November 1, 2018 7:37pm
West African musician and music department resident Mamadou Diabate tells the students in his Music 17.06 course “The Language-Music Connection” the origin story of the balafon, which is a wooden West African instrument similar to a xylophone.
October 31, 2018 6:12pm
It’s the day after Halloween, which obviously means we’re ready to plunge headfirst into the holiday season.
