This has been one of the better years for film in recent memory. Ranging from blockbusters such as The Martian to dramatic ensembles such as Spotlight, there was a quality movie for everybody. J.J. Abrams even redeemed the Star Wars series after a disastrous prequel trilogy. More ...
The Spectator had the opportunity to talk to the new CAB Movies Coordinator, Nelly Green ’18, about her plans for future events and what sort of films she plans on showing this semester. Interview by Arts & Entertainment Editor Bridget Lavin ’18 More ...
Hamilton College announces its spring F.I.L.M. (Forum on Image and Language in Motion) series, scheduled on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. in the Bradford Auditorium in the Kirner-Johnson Building on Hamilton’s campus. The theme of the spring series is “In Focus: African-Americans in Film: Rarely Screened Landmarks.” All events are free and open to the public. More ...
On Sunday, Jan. 24, Syracuse’s Symphoria presented their “Masterworks: Orchestra Spotlight” concert under the direction of guest conductor Fawzi Haimor. The program featured works by Beethoven and Mozart, and it revealed massive gains in the quality and identity of the orchestra. More ...
Bill Morrison was a new artist for me; I looked at his work for the first time a few days before he came for the F.I.L.M. event, displaying the Great Flood, and found his films to be very profound. His work and the construction of narratives through recycled footage is almost like a curation of archival footage. Morrison re-contextualizes images in his narrative, but still manages to preserve the uniqueness and individual narrative of every image. More ...
The final event of the F.I.L.M series this semester will be The Great Flood, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker himself, Bill Morrison. Morrison is famous for his ability to recycle footage, like this film’s original recordings from the Library of Congress’s archives, and combine those parts into cohesive cinema art. His most recent documentary follows the under-acknowledged history of the great flood of the Mississippi River in 1927. The most damaging river flood in our nation’s history displaced 1 million people and motivated the world’s longest system of levees and floodways. This 2013 film has already won Smithsonian Magazine’s 2014 American Ingenuity Award for Historical Scholarship, and has received rave reviews from the New York Times. While the piece has no spoken dialogue and rare text, the film’s composer and guitarist, Bill Frisell, carries our interest through blues and jazz music to accompany the silent and powerful imagery. More ...
The students of Professor Craig Latrell’s “Directing 303” have been hard at work all semester learning the complexities of directing a full-scale work of theatre. Now, they’re putting that work into practice and each mounting their own play in next Monday’s performance. Each director has held auditions, cast their actors and conducted rehearsals with their casts, according to the principles they have learned throughout the semester. We caught up with a few of the directors to get their perspective on the class, their plays, and the process of putting up their own show. More ...
The tale as old as time has been expertly restored by the Theatre Department in their production of “Beauty and the Beast.” By no means a commercial retelling of the French fairy tale, this rendition hinges on an eloquent original script that folds Shakespearean sonnets and original characters into the familiar framework. Lyrically complex lines are delivered with seamless clarity by the cast of eleven, creating a fantastical world conducive for fleshing out darker themes that center around love and virtue. More ...
Wellin Hall was alive with music this past Saturday, as cellist Matt Haimovitz visited the Hill. More ...
The Independent Music Fund (IMF) is bringing Daniel Lapatin a.k.a Oneohtrix Point Never to the Hill this Friday, Nov. 13. Coincidentally, the day marks Lapatin’s release of his newly hyped album Garden of Delete. More ...