Welcome to Hopkins Center FilmAs the film exhibition arm of the Hopkins Center, Hop Film presents 4-5 movies a week in two theaters. With a rich and diverse slate of over 200 titles a year, Hop Film hopes to enlighten, inspire and entertain the Dartmouth and community audience. See "Program Overview" on the right for more information about our series, specials and tickets. Click to view films in September | October | November | DFS SeriesWednesday, September 24 @ 6:30 PMMary PoppinsD: Robert Stevenson, USA, 1964, 139 minutes Join the "practically perfect" Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews, in her film debut) for a "Jolly Holiday" as she magically turns every chore into a game and every day into a whimsical adventure. Overflowing with gaiety, this children's fantasy delights with wonderful dance numbers and outrageous songs. The film's seamless blending of live-action with animation was a marvel in its day and earned it 13 Academy Award nominations. DFS SeriesFriday, September 26 @ 6:30/9:15 PMThe Dark KnightD: Christopher Nolan, USA, 2008, 152 minutes Nolan and Christian Bale resurrected the BATMAN franchise, but Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker propels THE DARK KNIGHT to new heights. The hideously painted fiend unleashes a reign of terror on Gotham City that is as unsettling as it is visually dazzling. Explosions, car chases, flying heroes—all are seamlessly integrated into this very dark, urban fantasy that examines the hero and villain in all of us.
Loew SeriesSaturday, September 27 @ 6:30/9:15 PMSex and the CityD: Michael Patrick King, USA, 2008, 148 minutes Based on the culture-defining HBO series, SEX is serious period Woody Allen, if he were a better shopper. Part mourning story, part resiliency tale, it sings of female friendship and empowerment. Although dressed and toned to the nines, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda still stumble in their Manolos, but soldier on to live, love and laugh another day.
DFS SeriesSunday, September 28 @ 7:00 PMCrouching Tiger, Hidden DragonD: Ang Lee, HK, Mand. w/subtitles, 2000, 120 minutes Asian superstar Chow Yun-Fat plays a legendary martial artist who has decided to pass on his sword, the Green Destiny, to a friend. When the sword is stolen by a masked woman, events unfold that test the bonds of family, love and duty. With jaw-dropping zero-gravity fights across rooftops, rivers and bamboo trees, TIGER is both an explosive introduction to the Hong Kong wuxia genre and a riveting romantic drama. DFS SeriesWednesday, October 1 @ 7:00 PMKing KongFollowed by short film The Harryhausen Chronicles D: Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack, USA, 1933, 104 minutes Loew SeriesThursday, October 2 @ 7:00 PMSpring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and SpringD: Kim Ki-Duk, SK, Kor. w/subtitles, 2003, 103 minutes From internationally acclaimed director Kim Ki-Duk comes a breathtaking portrait of a landscape tended to by a solitary monk. A child becomes the old monk's protégé, and so begins a lifelong journey of hope, despair, passion and redemption. His emotional evolution and maturity are reflected in the changing seasons. Loew SeriesSaturday, October 4 @ 7:00 PMRepriseD: Joachim Trier, Norway, Nor. w/subtitles, 2006, 105 minutes The freewheeling passion of youth and the unpredictable perils of fate are both the subject and the breathtaking form of Trier's lean and kinetic journey through friendship, love, madness and creativity. Trier turns his dark Nordic lens on his generation of overeducated males who use culture as a shield from growing up in this story of two competitive friends and aspiring writers. Film SpecialSaturday, October 4 @ 7:00 PMEncounters at the End of the WorldD: Werner Herzog, USA, 2007, 99 minutes There is a hidden society at the end of the world. One thousand men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters in Antarctica, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science. Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. In his first documentary since GRIZZLY MAN, acclaimed director Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his cameraman, traveled to Antarctica, with unparalleled access to the rare beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under. Herzog zeroes in on Antarctica's ability to attract scientific kooks, social misfits and philosophers. His portrait of the polar mind-set makes for fascinating anthropology; keen attention is paid to interior geographies. Herzog's latest meditation on nature explores this land of Fire, Ice and corrosive Solitude. “[Encounters] is a poem of oddness and beauty. Herzog is like no other filmmaker, and to return to him is to be welcomed into a world vastly larger and more peculiar than the one around us” (Roger Ebert). Spaulding Auditorium DFS SeriesSunday, October 5 @ 6:30/8:45 PMWALL-ED: Andrew Stanton, USA, 2008, 98 minutes Robot trash compactor WALL-E is the Earth's sole inhabitant. Desperately lonely, his world changes with the arrival of a sleek search robot named Eve. A simple story about robot love and saving the human race, WALL-E's visual imagery is frequently flabbergasting. Pixar “has an uncanny gift for pushing things further without pushing too far,” said critic Kenneth Turan. “WALL-E is both daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar.” Thanks, Pixar!
DFS SeriesWednesday, October 8Amélie @ 7:00 PMZelig @ 9:10 PMD: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, FR, Fr. w/subtitles, 2001, 122 minutes Meet two charming outcasts in this A-Z double feature. Practical joker Amélie decides to work her magic on the quirky object of her affections, whom she has never met. /One of the first major mockumentaries ever produced, ZELIG uses footage—historical and faked—and staged interviews with famous intellectuals to tell the story of Leonard Zelig, the "Chameleon Man" of the 1920s. Watch the trailer for AMELIE. Loew SeriesThursday, October 9 @ 7:00 PMUntold ScandalD: Lee Je-Yong, SK, Kor. w/subtitles, 2003, 124 minutes Set in 18th-century Korea, this incendiary retelling of DANGEROUS LIAISONS follows two morality-deficient cousins as they scheme to ruin the lives of innocents through romantic deception. But malice turns to heartache when the two cousins discover that no one is immune to love. Poignant and provocative, SCANDAL is a romantic drama dipped in acid. Loew SeriesSaturday, October 11 @ 6:30/9:00 PMTell No OneD: Guillaume Canet, FR, Fr. w/subtitles, 2006, 125 minutes Alex has been devastated since his beloved wife was savagely murdered eight years earlier. One day he receives an anonymous video of his wife—alive. Why does she instruct him to tell no one? Why do the police suspect him when they reopen the case? Twists and turns abound in this wrong-man thriller of the year. Film SpecialSaturday, October 11 @ 7:00 PMMan on WireD: James Marsh, UK/USA, 2008, 90 minutes On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire illegally rigged between New York's newly built Twin Towers—then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour dancing on the line, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation and temporarily jailed. Marsh's terrific documentary brings Petit's extraordinary adventure to life through the testimony of Philippe and his crazy co-conspirators, archival footage and a gripping black-and-white re-creation of their infiltration of the Towers. A tightrope walker who had practiced his guerilla art in other public places (Notre Dame and Sydney Harbor) Petit spent six years planning this incredible feat of performance art. In celebrating the sheer bravura of “the artistic crime of the century” MAN ON WIRE also pays fitting tribute to the now-phantom Towers. Spaulding Auditorium DFS SeriesSunday, October 12 @ 6:30 PMBen-HurD: William Wyler, USA, 1959, 212 minutes The numbers speak volumes: 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets and a staggering budget—in its day the largest in movie history. Charlton Heston plays Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish nobleman in Palestine whose heroic odyssey includes enslavement by the Romans, a bold escape from an embattled galley, a breathtaking chariot race and fateful encounters with Jesus Christ. The film won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Special Effects. DFS SeriesWednesday, October 15Tears of the Black Tiger @ 7:00 PMMunchhausen @ 9:00 PMD: Wisit Sasanatieng, TH, Th. w/subtitles, 2000, 110 minutes Imagine John Ford, Jean-Luc Godard and John Waters collaborating on an insane 1950s melodrama drenched in succulent Technicolor. This is the cinematic delirium of TIGER./MUNCHHAUSEN employs a wide range of special effects in recounting the adventures of the titular Baron. Travel from Venice to St. Petersburg, to the moon and back as the Baron journeys by horse, balloon and cannonball. Watch the trailer for TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER. Loew SeriesThursday, October 16 @ 7:00 PMSympathy for Mr. VengeanceD: Park Chan-Wook, SK, Kor. w/subtitles, 2002, 122 minutes Loew SeriesSaturday, October 18 @ 6:30/9:15 PMBrideshead RevisitedD: Julian Jarrold, UK, 2008, 133 min. This big-screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's celebrated novel does change a few of the book's key plot points, but forgiveness is swift given the outstanding cast and production design. Emma Thompson is spot on as the aristocratic Lady Marchmain whose family's title, wealth and children are a source of utter infatuation for the ambitious Charles Ryder. DFS SeriesSunday, October 19 @ 7:00 PMMetropolisD: Fritz Lang, GER, 1927, 117 minutes Perhaps the most influential of all silent films, METROPOLIS takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The precarious balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century. METROPOLIS is preceded by a selection of silent shorts from pioneering f/x wizard Georges Méliès. DFS SeriesWednesday, October 22 @ 7:00 PMThe Red ShoesD: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, UK, 1948, 133 minutes Renowned special effects artisans Powell and Pressburger co-directed this iconic classic, which is reputed to have been responsible for the ballet lessons of countless girls. Moira Shearer stars as a young woman, consumed by a will to dance, who is accepted into a highly prestigious ballet company. The film is highlighted by beautiful dances that are shot as expressionist cinematic dramas on impossibly grand sets awash with bold color. Loew SeriesThursday, October 23 @ 7:00 PMWoman on the BeachD: Hong Sang-Soo, SK, Kor. w/subtitles, 2006, 127 minutes In this wicked comedy of manners, a creatively stymied director is inspired by a pair of illicit romances to generate material for his latest film. Even as WOMAN brilliantly explores one of Hong's most enduring themes—the failings of South Korean men—it brings its female characters to the forefront in a revelatory new way. Film SpecialFriday, October 24 @ 7:30 PMFrozen RiverD: Courtney Hunt, USA, 2008, 97 minutes FROZEN RIVER is the story of Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo), an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of human smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl from a reservation that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit. “A taut, contemporary Thelma and Louise without the careful coifs or easy laughs, this engrossing Sundance jury winner is a moving character study of women from opposite sides of the Rez united by their financial and emotional needs, and by the unpredictable ties of friendship. This tautly-directed, skillfully edited drama works as a tense, wrenching, edge of the seat thriller elevated to must-see status by Leo's remarkable performance —tough, tender, fearless, complex” (US Weekly). Spaulding Auditorium Loew SeriesSaturday, October 25 @ 6:30/9:00 PMThe Edge of HeavenD: Fatih Akin, GER/TUR, var. w/subtitles, 2007, 122 minutes Akin's (HEAD ON) newest work is a so-called hyperlink movie as it contains interlocking narrative strands. That these strands never connect is irrelevant, because the wonderful, sad, touching EDGE is more about its characters than about its story. We are swept along as they navigate the Turkish immigrant experience in Europe. Film SpecialSaturday, October 25 @ 7:30 PMSons of LwalaD: Barry Simmons, USA, 2007, 77 minutes Milton and Fred Ochieng' (Class of 2004 and 2005 at Dartmouth, respectively) are from Lwala, Kenya whose village sold livestock to come up with their airfare to Hanover (they attended the College on scholarships). While they were Stateside, they lost their parents to AIDS. Continuing on to medical school at Vanderbilt, the brothers decided to finish their father's dream of building a clinic in Lwala. Unable to raise enough money on their own, the brothers were joined by fellow students, politicians, schoolchildren and a rock band—launching a fundraising drive across the United States. Last year, the Lwala Community Health Clinic opened its doors. SONS OF LWALA follows Milton and Fred on their incredible journey to bring medicine and hope to their friends and neighbors. For more information, visit www.sonsoflwala.com Milton and Fred return to Dartmouth to introduce the film and conduct a Q&A session following the screening. Spaulding Auditorium DFS SeriesSunday, October 26Ed Wood @ 7:00 PMBe Kind Rewind @ 9:15 PMD: Tim Burton, USA, 1994, 127 minutes D: Michel Gondry, USA, 2008, 102 minutes Johnny Depp stars as an eccentric movie man who refuses to let unfinished scenes and terrible reviews derail his effects-laden sci-fi epic./When a lovable loser (Jack Black) unintentionally erases all the tapes at his best friend's (Mos Def) video store, he devises a plan to re-film the most popular choices of their customers. REWIND features the renowned visual illusions of director Gondry. Watch the trailer for ED WOOD. DFS SeriesWednesday, October 29 @ 7:00 PMRebeccaD: Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1940, 130 minutes A woman believes her dreams have come true when her romance with the dashing Maxim de Winter culminates in marriage. But she soon realizes that the dead first Mrs. de Winter haunts the house and her new husband. Hitchcock's only Best Picture winner, REBECCA's trademark camera tricks earned it an Oscar nod for Best Special Effects. The film is followed by a documentary about Hitchcock's famed f/x collaborator Albert Whitlock. Loew SeriesThursday, October 30 @ 7:00 PMThe HostD: Bong Joon-Ho, SK, Kor. w/subtitles, 2006, 119 minutes Seoul's river Han is the watery birthplace of a giant mutant creature in this South Korean box-office smash. Hie-Bong is a humble snack bar owner whose precious granddaughter is scooped up by the scaly lizard. Can the mild-mannered concession peddler, his dim son and slacker grandson band together and save both child and city? DFS SeriesFriday, October 31 @ 8:00 PMThe ExorcistD: William Friedkin, USA, 1973, 132 minutes Director William Friedkin turned heads (in more ways than one) and scarred a generation when he decided to adapt William Peter Blatty's controversial horror novel for film. In this milestone of modern terror, two priests risk their sanity and their lives to administer the rites of demonic exorcism to a possessed young girl. Ellen Burstyn plays the girl's mother, who can only stand by in shock as her daughter's body is wracked by Satanic disfiguration. Loew SeriesSaturday, November 1 @ 6:30/8:45 PMGonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. ThompsonD: Alex Gibney, USA, 2008, 118 minutes This is a probing look into the uncanny life of a national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor. A fast-moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson's life. Gibney's seasoned, evenhanded profile restores a fair measure of the intelligent (even feared) critic to the gun-toting nut. DFS SeriesSunday, November 2 @ 7:00 PMThe MatrixD: Wachowski Bros, USA, 1999, 136 minutes A computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) searches for the truth behind the mysterious force known as the Matrix, and finds his answer with a group of strangers led by the charismatic Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). What they encounter makes for a lightning-paced, eye-popping thrill ride of a movie that cleverly combines sociopolitical commentary with cutting-edge special effects. A sci-fi classic for the information age, THE MATRIX is indispensable action cinema. DFS SeriesWednesday, November 5San Francisco @ 6:30 PMThe Perfect Storm @ 8:45 PMD: W.S. Van Dyke, USA, 1936, 115 minutes D: Wolfgang Petersen, USA, 2000, 129 minutes Clark Gable stars as a nightclub owner in this gripping tale of passion and adventure. The film's terrific special effects culminate in a finale that includes historic earthquake footage./George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg are fisherman who get more than they bargained for when their boat is hit in the storm of the century. Petersen delivers unforgettable saga of Mother Nature's ferocious power. Loew SeriesThursday, November 6 @ 7:00 PMOasis @ 7:00 PMD: Lee Chang-Dong, SK, Kor. w/subtitles, 2002, 132 minutes This acclaimed romantic drama and multi-award winner at the Venice Film Festival tells the story of two societal misfits and their struggle to find love and acceptance. Fate has brought them together, but their families are determined to keep them apart. Can the two lovers keep their own little universe—their oasis—intact? Loew SeriesSaturday, November 8 @ 6:30/8:45 PMThe Last MistressD: Catherine Breillat, FR, Fr. w/subtitles, 2007, 114 minutes Breillat (FAT GIRL), cinema's perpetual bad girl, returns with a supremely erotic and wickedly humorous depiction of human lust set in 1800s France. A penniless rogue shocks society with his engagement to the virginal gem of the aristocracy. But his infamously carnal mistress of ten years (the utterly fearless Asia Argento) will not go quietly. DFS SeriesSunday, November 9 @ 7:00/9:15 PMTropic ThunderD: Ben Stiller, USA, 2008, 107 minutes A group of self-absorbed actors sets off for the jungles of Southeast Asia to film the most explosive war film ever made. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director leads his cast into the jungle where they encounter real bad guys. This savagely funny satire of Hollywood action movies turns typical war film f/x—explosions, dismemberments, etc.—into the raw materials for a pitch-black comedy.
DFS SeriesWednesday, November 12Creature from the Black Lagoon @ 7:00 PMIt Came From Outer Space @ 8:30 PMD: Jack Arnold, USA, 1954, 79 minutes A scientific expedition encounters an astounding amphibian in CREATURE. The explorers are amazed as they battle the incredible Gill-Man./ A man believes he's witnessed a spaceship's landing, though local residents dismiss it as a meteor. Slowly their minds are taken over, and it's up to Carlson to stand up to the one-eyed monster. Both films shown in 3-D. Red and blue glasses provided. Watch the trailer for IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE. Loew SeriesThursday, November 13 @ 7:00 PMThe President's Last BangD: Im Sang-Soo, SK, Kor. w/subtitles, 2005, 102 minutes. BANG is a macabre black comedy that wildly speculates on the events surrounding the 1979 assassination of the South Korean President. Censored at home, this comic thriller explores the covert machinations of a rag-tag band of Korean CIA conspirators in the hours prior to the killing. They manage to put the fun back into political revolution. Loew SeriesSaturday, November 15 @ 6:30/8:45 PMElegyD: Isabel Coixet, USA, 2008, 113 minutes ELEGY charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated professor (Ben Kingsley) and a young woman (Penélope Cruz) whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms them, a charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard also increase the story's warmth and wit. DFS SeriesSunday, November 16 @ 8:00 PMAkira Kurosawa's DreamsD: Akira Kurosawa, JAP, Jap. w/subtitles, 1990, 120 minutes A collection of eight stories based on the actual dreams of Akira Kurosawa, DREAMS provides an enchanting glimpse into the imagination of one of cinema's auteurs. This series of magical vignettes is brought to life by rich visual illusions, which create worlds of captivating elemental beauty. The film features a cast of unusual characters, including a weeping demon, a snow enchantress and Vincent Van Gogh (played by Martin Scorsese!). DFS SeriesWednesday, November 19 @ 7:00/9:15 PMTrannsiberianD: Brad Anderson, USA, 2008, 111 minutes Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) decide to take the long way home from their recent sojourn in Asia on the legendary Trans-Siberian Express train from Beijing to Moscow. When Roy gets separated from the group at a stopover, Jessie begins to realize that the other passengers aren't who or what they seem to be. Watch thrilling action sequences and astounding landscapes, all shown from the windows of a rushing train. Loew SeriesThursday, November 20 @ 7:00 PMPainted FireD: Im Kwon-Taek, SK, Kor. w/subtitles, 2002, 117 minutes Winner of Cannes' Best Director award, FIRE is a vivid portrait of the turbulent life of Korea's greatest artist. The temperamental, passionate brush master Jang Seung-Up paints with a martial artist's fervor while indulging a rock star's single-minded lust for life. He fights the social fetters of a world that would deny his low-born genius. Loew SeriesSaturday, November 22 @ 6:30/8:30 PMVicky Cristina BarcelonaD: Woody Allen, USA, 2008, 96 minutes Set against the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona, VICKY is Allen's funny and open-minded celebration of love in all its configurations. An adventurous young woman (Scarlet Johansson) and her sensible friend are drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with a charismatic painter (Javier Bardem) and his tempestuous ex-wife (Penélope Cruz). DFS SeriesSunday, November 23 @ 7:00 PMCitizen KaneD: Orson Welles, USA, 2008, 111 minutes Considered by many to be the greatest American movie ever made, KANE stars director Orson Welles as a ruthless newspaper tycoon whose lust for power and fortune drives him to trample those closest to him. This timeless tale of power and corruption pushes the limits of then-available technology—mattes, deep focus, trick photography and more—to create a true cinematic magic show that has stood the test of time. |
Hopkins Center Film:Program OverviewMovies at the Hop are presented in three concurrent series each term. The Dartmouth Film Society (DFS) movies are programmed around a central theme. DFS films play every Wednesday and Sunday in Spaulding Auditorium (except as noted). The Loew Shows consist of a Thursday and Saturday series in the Loew Auditorium. A term pass can be bought for either/both the DFS series and the Loew Shows. Individual tickets are available before every screening. Film Specials are one-of-a-kind shows that play in both theatres throughout the term. Tickets for Specials can be bought in advance online and at the Hopkins Center Box Office. See below for more information. Ticket info: call the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422 DARTMOUTH FILM SOCIETY SERIES20+ shows for $20!$12 w/a Dart. ID!Buy a DFS Pass today and see 27 movies (double feature & tribute included) Fall Series: Smoke and Mirrors: Special Effects in the MoviesFrom Méliès' silent voyage to the moon to WALL-E's animated journey into outer space, filmmakers have both fooled and astounded their audiences with special effects. Matte painting, miniatures, stop-motion, rear-projection and computer-generated imagery allow us to watch the impossible come to life. “Smoke and Mirrors” explores these tricks of the trade, which make a girl's head spin (THE EXORCIST), a gorilla destroy a city (KING KONG), a coliseum appear from nowhere (BEN-HUR) and a man in a bat suit fly (THE DARK KNIGHT). For more information on the Film Society: blitz "dfs" or email dfs@dartmouth.edu DFS Tickets/Passes/Information• Single Tickets: $7.00/Dart. IDs $5.00, Children 12 & under $5.00. click here to see the fall DFS series LOEW SHOWSThe Loew Shows consist of two concurrent film series each term. The Thursday films salute the golden years (see below). The Saturday series is always an eclectic mix of new art house titles. Thursday Series: New Korean CinemaOver the past decade, South Korea has produced high-quality films in a hothouse environment of domestic success and international acclaim. This series introduces representative films by major directors and presents an array of themes and visual styles—from art-house to blockbuster, from horror to history—that capture the explosive dynamic of one of the world's leading film industries. Programmed in conjunction with Prof. Chris Hanscom's Introduction to Korean Film class. LOEW Series Tickets/Passes/Information• Single Tickets: $7.00/Dart. IDs $5.00 |
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