Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Animation Festival honors labors of love

By Meredith Fraser, The Dartmouth Senior Staff

A special wing of the Film Studies department is housed in the Studio Art building; students stumble in and out of Clement Hall with ink-splattered fingers and droopy eyes. You can easily pick out the animation students at the Hop this time of the term — they slog into the cafe, grab a caffeinated item and plod back to their temporary home. Tonight, all their work comes together in one of the most popular student productions of the year. More »

The movie that no one but Oscar knew how to quit

By Kate Robb

A collective roar went up in the Streeter basement kitchen when this year’s Best Picture Oscar was handed out. Thirteen people sat on the industrial couches of the lounge in disbelief — how could the movie that had so much pre-Oscar buzz, a gaggle of other awards and won Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director earlier that evening, lose the big one? How was “Brokeback Mountain” not the Best Picture winner? More »