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Graduate Movie Nights: Fall Term

In conjunction with the Hop’s Return Series, the Graduate Activities Coordination and the North Park Activities Coordinator have organized a series of film nights for the graduate community. Each week we are watching one film at hop and providing 10 free tickets. Five of these will go to North Park residents and five to other graduate students. Priority will be given on a first come first served basis. Check out the films below for more details.

Look out for updates on the graduate studies facebook page and the gazetteer for instructions to sign up for  free tickets.

Sunday 23September 4PM: Godfather Part II

As stunning as the original film, Godfather II continues the saga of two generations of successive power in the Corleone family. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star in parallel stories about the early career of Vito Corleone and his son Michael’s rise to power. This amazingly intricate, symmetrical tragedy touches upon several chapters of 20th-century history and is undeniably one of the best sequels in the history of cinema.  D: Francis Ford Coppola, US, 1974, 200m, 35mm

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4Fdv4yy3KWY

Sunday 30 September 4PM: Rififi

After making such American noir classics as The Naked City and Brute Force, blacklisted director Jules Dassin went to Paris and embarked on his masterpiece: a twisting, turning tale of four ex-cons who reunite for one last glorious heist in the City of Lights. With mixes of film noir and French New Wave influences, this melange of suspense, brutality, and dark humor features one of the best heist sequences ever filmed. D: Jules Dassin, France, 1955, subtitled, 122m, digital

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_rC9KICgrLU

Sunday 7^th October 4PM: Long Day Closes

Through an impressionistic series of scenes infused with footage from classic movies, Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea) tells the autobiographical story of an 11-year-old boy growing up in 1950s Liverpool, and creates a poignant vision of a paradise lost. A poet of memory and recreation whose approach fuses painterly composition and musical flow, Davies addresses the past not with a nostalgist’s doting tidiness, but with a sense of fluid emotions perpetually at play.  D: Terence Davies, UK, 1992, 85m, 35mm

Friday 19^th October 7PM: Neil Young Journeys

This acclaimed documentary captures Neil Young as he returns to his childhood home of Omemee to prepare for a concert at Toronto’s Massey Hall. As Young revisits locations and reminisces on his past, we are given a close-up view of an artist who has never stopped evolving. This portrait of a legend is rich, rewarding and possibly one of the greatest concert films of all time. D: Jonathan Demme, US, 2012, 87 minutes, 35mm

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_JIFEqfd2ns

Sunday 28^th October 7PM: The Day He Arrives

Hong’s latest film is a clever and dreamlike game with narrative time. A movie director returns to a small town to visit an old friend, and over the course of three days, finds himself returning to the same bar, the same woman, and the same situations. With intricate repetitions seamlessly woven into the narrative, Day He Arrives plays like a Korean Groundhog Day with mystery, cosmic coincidences, rueful melodrama and dry comedy. D: Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2012, subtitled, 79 minutes, digital

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_nuet1q58z8

Sunday 11^th November 7PM: A History Of Violence

Devoted family man Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) lives a quiet life in rural Indiana. When he foils a vicious robbery attempt in his diner, his newfound fame brings the sinister Carl Fogerty (Ed Harris) and an army of buried skeletons to his door. Cronenberg’s thriller delivers masterfully on every level, questioning whether it is possible to truly escape our pasts and if violence is ever justified. D: David Cronenberg, US, 2005, 76 minutes, 35mm

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Wi-cPZWWtkY

Blurbs from the Hop website

Intro and photo by Dan Durcan

Regina Salvat (L) and Erin O’Flaherty (R) at a graduate event in 2012.

The Graduate Forum will be running a series of articles profiling the new Graduate Student Council. The GSC elections were held back on May 1^st. As the new board members get underway in their positions, we’d like to take an opportunity to congratulate them on their elections and to highlight their hopes for the year ahead. Featured this week – the North Park Activities Coordinator, Regina Salvat.

Regina grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then traveled east to pursue her studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She graduated from Cornell in 2008 with two degrees, a bachelors and a masters in biomedical engineering. In 2010, she made her way to Dartmouth, to set to work on getting a PhD in Engineering with a focus in biotechnology.

At Dartmouth, Regina is working in Professor Karl Griswold’s lab. The Griswold lab is studying enzyme therapeutics, a treatment method that could help to combat a wide range of health issues, like drug-resistant pathogens and complications from cystic fibrosis. Regina is figuring out how to “de-immunize” large molecules that could be used to carry parts of the treatment method, so long as the body’s immune system doesn’t attack and render them useless.

This past spring, Regina was selected to be the North Park Activities Coordinator for the second year in a row. As the NPAC, Regina’s responsibilities focus around the graduate housing at North Park, where she’ll host social events in an effort to build a welcoming, fun community.  As the fall term approaches, she’s gearing up for events designed to welcome the new graduate students, including a wine and cheese tasting during orientation, movie nights early in the term. She’s also hoping to work with Dan Durcan, the new Graduate Student Activities Coordinator, to plan weekly theme dinners for the larger grad community.

Regina also represents the North Park community to the Graduate Student Council. Through this forum, she can voice any concerns of the students who use Dartmouth’s housing resources. And, she rents out the vacuums to North Park residents!

The Graduate Forum welcomes Regina back to the NPAC position – we’re looking forward to her events this year!

Article by Zach Williams