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For Immediate Release: Jan. 4, 2010

                      Hopkins Center Film in Winter 2010:
                         Big Screen, Great Filmmakers

HANOVER, NH--Hopkins Center Film outdoes itself this winter with two stellar
series, five film specials, and an evening-long tribute to a legendary American
documentary filmmaker. The screenings take place in Spaulding Auditorium, a
900-seat theater with a 32-by-24-foot screen (one of the few remaining big
screens in northern New England), and Loew Auditorium, a 204-seat theater on
the ground floor of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.

Passes are available for the Dartmouth Film Society series and the Loew Series,
and individual tickets are available for the film specials

A full list of Hopkins Center Film for Winter 2010 can be viewed at:
http://hop.dartmouth.edu/movies/index.html


In addition, The Met: Live in HD series continues January through May with five
operas shown on five Saturdays and Sundays, in Loew Auditorium. For a full list
of the broadcasts, go to:
http://hop.dartmouth.edu/movies/metopera.html

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                 Dartmouth Film Society Winter 2010 series
          Size Matters: Movies that MUST be Seen on the Big Screen

Monday, Jan. 4 through Saturday, March 6,
including most Wednesdays & Sundays
DFS Series pass: 20+ shows for $25, Dartmouth ID $15!
Single tickets: $7.00, Dart. IDs $5.00, children 12 & under $5

In an era when cinema has shrunk to the size of an iphone, the DFS offers a
roster of movies whose sweeping grandeur calls out for the 32-foot-wide, 24-
foot-high screen of 900-seat Spaulding Auditorium. Prepare to be overwhelmed


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by epics (Seven Samurai), visual spectacles (The Wizard of Oz) and dazzling
choreography (Nine). Like all DFS series, this one includes both classic and newly
released films from the US and abroad, and a silent masterpiece (Napoleon,
1927) The series begins Monday, January 4, and continues most Wednesdays and
Sundays, as well as some other days of the week, through March 6.

For a complete schedule of Size Matters and other Hopkins Center film offerings,
go to:
http://hop.dartmouth.edu/movies/index.html
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        A Tribute to Frederick Wiseman, with his acclaimed new film
                      La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet

Friday, January 15, 7 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$10, Dartmouth IDs $5
Hop page: http://hop.dartmouth.edu/movies/wiseman.html
Download photos: http://hop.dartmouth.edu/newsroom/index.html
View the trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/ladanse/
Wiseman's website: www.zipporah.com

The Dartmouth Film Society honors “the most prominent invisible man of
American documentary film” (New York Times) with an evening-long
presentation that includes a brief career compilation, an advance screening
Wiseman's acclaimed new film, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, the
presentation of the Dartmouth Film Award and an onstage discussion with the
filmmaker.
Film Special

In La Danse ("One of the finest dance films ever made. Sumptuous in its length
and graceful in its rhythm, it transfixes you"--A.O. Scott, The New York Times),
documentary master Wiseman turns his attention to one of the world's greatest
ballet companies. His camera roams the vast Palais Garnier, an opulent 19th-
century pile of a building: from its crystal chandelier-laden corridors and
labyrinthine underground chambers to its luxurious theater replete with 2,200
scarlet velvet seats and Marc Chagall ceiling. La Danse devotes most of its time
to watching impossibly beautiful young dancers rehearsing the works of Mats Ek,
Wayne McGregor, Rudolf Nureyev and Pina Bausch. For balletomanes and the
curious alike, LA DANSE serves up a scrumptious meal of delectable moments,
one more glorious than the next, made even more precious by their ephemeral
nature.


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                      Loew Shows include Polanski Series

Thursday, Jan. 7, through Saturday, March 6
Loew Term Passes (good for all Thursday & Saturday films): $30 /Dart. IDs
$20
Single Tickets: $7, Dart. IDs $5, children 12 & under $5
Loew Shows listing: http://hop.dartmouth.edu/movies/loew.html

The Loew Shows consist of two concurrent film series each term, all shown in
the Loew Auditorium. The Saturday series is always an eclectic mix of new art
house titles, this term including new films starring Audrey Tautou (Coco Before
Chanel) and directed by Steven Soderbergh, Lars von Trier, Joel and Ethan Coen
and Pedro Almodovar.

The Thursday films are organized around a different theme each term, this term
being The Agony of Roman Polanski, a retrospective of the undeniably great
films made by this disturbing public figure, including his early European-made
films, his US-made 1974 masterpiece Chinatown and his 2002 The Pianist, which
won him Oscar for Best Director. The series begins Thursday, January 7, with
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, a 2008 documentary about the
complicated case against the director.

In 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 Loew series offers a glimpse into the mind of this polarizing
auteur through a compilation of some of his finest films. him, and

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                       Five Far-Ranging Film Specials:
       From Soviet Silent-film Classic to Michael Jackson to Overfishing

This is It
Saturday, January 9, 7:30 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$8, Dart IDs $5, children 12 & under $5

This Is It (2009, director Kenny Ortega) offers Michael Jackson fans and music
lovers worldwide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he
developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts that would have
taken place beginning this summer in London's O2 Arena. Chronicling the months
from April through June 2009, the film is produced with the full support of the
Estate of Michael Jackson and drawn from more than one hundred hours of


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behind-the-scenes footage, featuring Jackson rehearsing a number of his songs
for the show. Audiences will be given a privileged and private look at Jackson up
close and personal. In raw and candid detail, This Is It captures the singer,
dancer, filmmaker, architect, creative genius and great artist at work as he
creates and perfects his final show.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Friday, January 22, 7:30 pm
Loew Auditorium
$8, Dart IDs $5, children 12 & under $5

Programmed in conjunction with Dartmouth's Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration,
Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008, director Gini Reticker) is the gripping account
of a group of brave women who demanded peace for Liberia, a nation torn to
shreds by a decades-long civil war. The women's historic achievement finds its
voice in a narrative that intersperses interviews, archival images, and scenes of
present-day Liberia together to recount the memories of a few of the women
who were there. In 2003, Liberia was a country devastated by decades of
political dislocation, humanitarian crisis, and street-to-street urban warfare.
Charles Taylor, then President of Liberia, had emptied the country's pockets as
creatively as any dictator in memory. His ascent to power led to the deaths of
thousands of people and a nation in complete ruin. Out of the wreckage, more
than 2000 Christian and Muslim women throughout the country began to organize
and banded together in an effort to bring an end to the fighting. At great person
risk, they protested creatively and persistently for peace in the worst days of
brutal and protracted civil conflict. A discussion follows film.

The Man with a Movie Camera featuring the Alloy Orchestra
Friday, January 22, 7:30 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$10, Dartmouth IDs $5, children 12 & under $5

Soviet cinema pioneer Dziga Vertov's controversial 1929 silent film still pulses
with energy, innovation and genius. This landmark masterpiece from the Soviet
avant-garde director stylishly highlights the buzz of everyday city life (shops,
traffic, children, coal miners, nature) as seen through the eyes of a roving
cameraman. Many filmic devices are used to comment on vision, life, Marxism
and modernity in the Soviet Union. “A study in film truth on an almost
philosophical level. It does deliberately what others try hard to avoid--destroys
its own illusions, in the hope that reality will emerge from the process not as a
creature of screen illusion but as a liberated spirit" (Films and Filming).

This screening features a new score performed live by the Alloy Orchestra. Alloy
is a three-man musical ensemble, writing and performing live accompaniment to
classic silent films. Working with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects,
they thrash and grind soulful music from unlikely sources.


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The End of the Line
Friday, January 29, 7:30 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$8, Dartmouth IDs $5, children 12 & under $5

In his 2009 documentary, filmmaker Rupert Murray traverses the world exposing
the devastating effects that overfishing with modern technology is having on fish
stocks and the real solutions to solve the crisis. Combining alarming scientific
testimony with under- and above-water footage, Murray creates a hard-to-ignore
sketch of the state of the globe's oceanic ecosystems. This film is based on
British environmental journalist Charles Clover's book, which uses scientific
evidence to predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet
will completely run out of fish by 2048. There will be a post-film discussion with
Dartmouth faculty members Anne Kapuscinski, Celia Chen and others. The
screening presented with the support of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty

For the Love of Movies, with Director/Film Critic Gerald Peary in Person
Friday, February 12, 7:30 pm
$8, Dartmouth IDs $5, children 12 & under $5

Directed by long-time Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary, the 2009 film For
the Love of Movies is the first feature documentary to tell the rich, colorful, and
undeniably controversial story of Peary's tribe, 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. 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. A
discussion with director Peary follows the film.

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The Hopkins Center for the Arts, a multi-disciplinary academic, visual and
performing arts center since 1962, presents over 300 events each year. With
Outreach and Arts Education programs serving more than 22,000 Upper Valley
residents and students annually, its mission is "to ignite and sustain a passion for
the arts within Dartmouth and its greater community and to provide the core
educational environment for the study, creation and presentation of the arts."




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