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 February | March | DFS SeriesWednesday, February 10 @ 7:00 PMKundunD: Martin Scorsese, USA, Tibetan w/subtitles, 1997, 134 minutes KUNDUN is the incredible true story of one of the world's most fascinating leaders—Tibet's 14th Dali Lama and his daring struggle to rule a nation at one of the most challenging times in its history. Scorsese (RAGING BULL) shot the film with great pageantry and ritual, and with meticulous attention to details of costume, color and the casting of actual Buddhist monks. Received with both controversy and worldwide acclaim, KUNDUN is “sensationally absorbing.” (SF Chronicle) Loew SeriesThursday, February 11 @ 7:00 PMChinatownD: Roman Polanski, USA, 1974, 131 minutes Polanski's crowning achievement is a film noir masterpiece set in 1930s Los Angeles. When a femme fatale (Faye Dunaway) hires a seedy private eye (Jack Nicholson) to scrutinize her husband, his investigation uncovers a web of corruption that reaches the very highest levels. Featuring a career-best performance from the devilishly debonair Nicholson, CHINATOWN ranks among the greatest films ever made. Film SpecialFriday, February 12 @ 7:30 PMFor the Love of MoviesD: Gerald Peary, USA, 2009, 80 minutes FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES is the first feature documentary to tell the rich, colorful, and undeniably controversial story of the American film critic. Though maligned and often misunderstood by both the industry and the public, talented and passionate critics have reviewed, analyzed, and scrutinized the cinema for virtually its whole history, a hundred years of informed commentary about the art of the film. Curiously, filmmakers have neglected the payback of turning camera on the critics' astonishing history. Until now. FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES is brought to you by filmmaker Gerald Peary, himself a long-time critic for the Boston Phoenix and member of the National Society of Film Critics. With Peary's insider expertise, this documentary unveils the amusing, fractious, amazingly articulate subculture of those who spend much of their working lives in movie theatres, scribbling review notes in the dark. Loew Auditorium Loew SeriesSaturday, February 13 @ 6:30/8:30 PMThe Damned UnitedD: Tom Hopper, UK, 2009, 95 minutes Set in '60s and '70s England, UNITED tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44-day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. Replacing his bitter rival Don Revie and advocating a more principled style of play, Clough's belligerence and brilliance endured an unprecedented scrutiny from the nation. This is his story. DFS SeriesSunday, February 14 @ 7:00 PMDr. ZhivagoD: David Lean, USA, 1965, 176 minutes Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak's beloved novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The movie is so lush and so long and Lean's gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is unerring. Omar Sharif and the staggeringly beautiful Julie Christie are swept up and torn apart in this visually stunning saga and multi-Oscar winner. Don't miss one of the silver screen's great love stories. DFS SeriesWednesday, February 17 @ 7:00 PMAll Quiet on the Western FrontD: Lewis Milestone, USA, 1930, 112 minutes If a classic movie can be measured by the number of indelible images it burns into the collective imagination, then QUIET's status is undisputed. This 1930 Best Picture saga of eager German recruits experiencing the insanity of war has been acclaimed for its intensity, artistry and staying power. Milestone's magnificent crane and tracking shots of the battlefields and the horror-filled trenches are unforgettable and QUIET's power to disturb remains undiminished 80 years later. Loew SeriesThursday, February 18 @ 7:00 PMMacbethD: Roman Polanski, UK, 1971, 140 minutes Shakespeare's most heinous villain gets the royal treatment in Roman Polanski's vividly violent version of one of literature's greatest dramas. When three witches prophesize his ascent to the throne, a Scottish nobleman finds his pure heart corrupted by delusions of grandeur. With the help of his ambitious wife, Macbeth finds his hand moved to murder— but at what cost? Loew SeriesSaturday, February 20 @ 6:30/8:30 PMAn EducationD: Lone Scherfig, UK, 2009, 95 minutes In the post-war, pre-Beatles London suburbs, a bright schoolgirl is torn between studying for a place at Oxford and the more exciting alternative offered by a charismatic older man. Newcomer and budding star Carey Mulligan flicks her hair just so, peppers her conversation with bits of French to sound more sophisticated, and ultimately finds that book learning can't fend off grown-up heartbreak. AVATAR CANCELLED!!!20th Century Fox has alerted us that AVATAR will not be available for our Feb 21 screening. In its place, we will be showing fellow Best Picture nominee THE HURT LOCKER. In addition to Best Picture, HURT LOCKER is nominated for 9 other Oscars, including Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), Best Actor and Best Screenplay. DFS SeriesSunday, February 21 @ 7:00 PMThe Hurt LockerD: Kathryn Bigelow, USA, 2009, 131 minutes THE HURT LOCKER is an intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: disarming bombs in the heat of combat. When a new sergeant (Oscar-nominated Jeremy Renner) takes over a highly trained bomb disposal team amidst violent conflict, he surprises his two subordinates by recklessly plunging them into a deadly game of urban combat. As the men struggle to control their wild new leader, the city explodes into chaos. Nominated for nine Oscars including Best Picture, THE HURT LOCKER has appeared on over 260 critics' Top Ten lists for 2009. DFS SeriesLoew AuditoriumWednesday, February 24 @ 7:00 PMNapoleonD: Abel Gance, USA, 1927, 235 minutes Gance's sprawling saga about the life of Napoleon Bonaparte is cinematic grandeur at its finest. Tracing the legendary general's life from childhood snowball fights to epic military conquests, this silent masterpiece is one of the most vividly detailed biopics ever realized. NAPOLEON's expansive vision is too big to be contained on a single screen—literally! (The closing reel will be shown in three-screen Polyvision). Loew SeriesThursday, February 25 @ 7:00 PMBitter MoonD: Roman Polanski, France/UK, 1992, 139 minutes On a cruise to Istanbul, a British couple (Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter an American expatriate (Peter Coyote) traveling with his young French wife, (Polanski's real-life wife Emmanuelle Seigner). What unfolds is a twisted tale of forbidden love and strange sexual experimentation, in what still ranks as one of Polanski's most shocking films to date. Loew SeriesSaturday, February 27 @ 6:30/8:45 PMA Serious ManD: Joel & Ethan Coen, USA, 2009, 105 minutes The latest from the fabulous Coen Bros is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967 and physics professor Larry Gopnik is in crisis: his wife is leaving him for a colleague and his children are shirking Hebrew school and raiding his wallet. Can any rabbi help him find equilibrium and become a righteous person—a mensch—a serious man? DFS SeriesSunday, February 28 @ 7:00 PMChildren of ParadiseD: Marcel Carne, France, Fr. w/subtitles, 1945, 163 minutes Two vastly different men compete for the heart of the same woman in Marcel Carne's majestic saga set against a theatrical community in 19th-century Paris. This Oscar-nominated visual spectacle is a tragic love story of tremendous proportions, full of forbidden passion and dashing duels. Shot by resistance fighters during the Nazi occupation of Paris, CHILDREN OF PARADISE was named one of the greatest films ever by TIME Magazine. DFS SeriesWednesday, March 3 @ 7:00 PMNineD: Rob Marshall, USA, 2009, 110 minutes A director (Daniel Day-Lewis) faces a midlife crisis as he struggles to complete his latest movie while juggling relationships with several tempestuous women, including his wife (Marion Cotillard), his mistress (Penélope Cruz), a muse (Nicole Kidman), his producer (Judi Dench) and his mother (Sophia Loren). Based on the Broadway adaptation of Fellini's 8 ½, this acclaimed musical is directed by visual virtuoso Rob Marshall (CHICAGO). Loew SeriesThursday, March 4 @ 7:00 PMThe PianistD: Roman Polanski, France/Germany, 2002, 150 minutes Polanski won a Best Director Oscar for this deeply personal glimpse into a little-known chapter of Holocaust history. THE PIANIST is based on the true story of famed Polish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody, in an Oscar-winning role) who endured years of hiding and deprivation in occupied Warsaw. This powerful, ultimately triumphant film follows his heroic and inspirational journey of survival. Loew SeriesSaturday, March 6 @ 6:30/9:00 PMBroken EmbracesD: Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, Span. w/ subtitles, 2009, 127 minutes A blind writer tries to heal his wounds from a brutal car crash 14 years earlier, a day when he lost both his sight and his adored Lena (Penélope Cruz). Almodóvar's newest tale of “amour fou” examines the themes of fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and guilt. Cruz gives yet another incendiary performance in this moving and terrible story from one of cinema's modern masters. DFS SeriesSaturday, March 6 @ 7:00 PMGone with the WindD: Victor Fleming, USA, 1939, 222 minutes “Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.” Those immortal words helped close the “moviest of all movies,” a 1939 Best Picture that welds Hollywood classicism and literary adaptation with bravura and grace. While Atlanta burns and the Civil War rages, infuriating Vivien Leigh clashes with dashing Clark Gable. Compelling plot aside, GWTW also broke new ground in art direction, color, sound and cinematography—capturing 8 Oscars and the heart of a nation. |
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. In addition to screening films, Film Society also hosts meetings on Mondays at 6:00pm in Wilson 205. Come talk about movies and eat free food. Propose future film series. Learn about upcoming tributes. Become a member of the directorate. Newcomers always welcome! Ticket info: call the Hop Box Office at 603.646.2422 DARTMOUTH FILM SOCIETY SERIES20+ shows for $25!$15 w/ a Dart. ID!Winter Series: Size Matters: Movies that MUST be Seen on the Big ScreenTurn off your TVs and laptops and toss out your iPods, because it's time to experience the joy of movies the way they were meant to be seen–on the big screen. In an era when cinema has gone microscopic, the DFS offers a roster of movies whose sweeping grandeur simply can't be contained by handheld devices or the home tube. Prepare to be overwhelmed by epics (SEVEN SAMURAI), visual spectacles (THE WIZARD OF OZ) and dazzling choreography (NINE), as this Cinemascope series offers a helpful reminder that "Size Matters." 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 winter DFS series LOEW SHOWSThe Loew Shows consist of two concurrent film series each term. The Thursday films are organized around a different theme each term (see below). The Saturday series is always an eclectic mix of new art house titles. The Loew Auditorium is located in the Hood Museum of Art. Thursday Series: The Agony of Roman PolanskiIn 1977, one of the all-time great directors was convicted of a terrible crime and fled from Hollywood to Europe to avoid prison. Last September he was arrested in Switzerland (at the request of the U.S.) and today his fate remains uncertain. Roman Polanski is one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century, a tortured genius whose personal history is as strange and disturbing as many of his movies. “The Agony of Roman Polanski” offers a glimpse into the mind of this polarizing auteur through a compilation of some of his finest films. LOEW Series Tickets/Passes/Information• Single Tickets: $7.00/Dart. IDs $5.00, Children 12 & under $5.00 |
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