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The Interpreter

Nicole Kidman plays Silvia Broome, a UN interpreter who overhears an assassination plan inside the UN headquarter. An FBI agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) is sent to protect her, but soon finds the interpreter has covered up a suspicious past. This film by Sydney Pollack is the first ever that has been shot inside the UN Headquarter.

Miss Congeniality 2:
Armed and Fabulous

Sandra Bullock is back as FBI Agent Gracie Hart. Now a celebrity figure of the FBI, Hart is assigned to be a public relations mascot for the department. So she spends more time on hairdo than on chasing villains. But, as her friends were kidnapped in Las Vegas, her police instinct is awoken, while everybody has to try to get their FBI Barbie girl away from the bullets.

AUA

The real film freak can get him/herself to AUA on Rajdamnern Road, just up from Pratu Thapae. There, in Chiang Mai’s coolest, most convenient little English-language library, you can take your pick of close to 200 of the choicest videos going. You want Five Easy Pieces, Trainspotting, Leaving Las Vegas, Das Boot, Apocalypse Now, La Haine, Mon Oncle, Men in Black, The Third Man, Taxi Driver, Wild Strawberries, Cyrano de Bergerac, Blade Runner, The Simpsons, The Bicycle Thieves, etc. etc. etc? You do? Well, they got it. And for a smallish charge you can either take it home or see it on the premises. And now - DVDs too!

ART FILM Programs
Faculty of Media Art & Design, Chiang Mai University proudly presents:
Film Space Project

These films are to be shown on the rooftop of the Faculty of Media Art and Design, Chiang Mai UniversityArt Museum. Every Saturday at 6.30 p.m. (Free Admission)

Carl Denham, a big showman, facing serious economic problems in the Depression, still wanted to give his audience a big surprise. So he collected some funding and headed for Skull Island. His daredevil team consisted of adventurer Jack Driscoll and a beautiful blond Ann Darrow. Oblivious of the danger, they were making their way toward the 30 - foot tall Kong. This is one of the best films in its genre ever and is going to be recreated by Peter Jackson.

Thongpoon Khokbhodi was born in a poor farming family in the Northeast. He left his homeland and headed for the big mango where he finally bought an old taxi, meaning to ply for hire. One day he was attacked and his taxi stolen. He woke up to find himself broke, and could not pay for his tiny apartment. This film, by director Chatri Chaleom Yukol (Suriyothai) was featured in 31st Berlin film festival, and has been considered one of the Thai classic films.

The world's superhero is back in action, but this time, he choses to discard his immortality to be with Louis Lane. But to reject oneself was difficult, as Lex Luther proved by joining hands with three Cryptonian criminals that got away from their prison cell. The late Christopher Reeve met Gene Hackman in this marvelous action movie.

In the wild, unstable, ancient China, the grandest faction was ruled by the determined, ambitious Qin, who had aroused great opposition planning to unite the nation as one strong China. Great warriors in China plotted to assassinate him, but a minor official alone put a stop to this plan and killed off the three greatest assassins. In his delight, Qin summoned this man to the palace to give him the full account of the three battles, a meeting which ends with terrifying heroic deeds and death. This is one of Zhang Yimou's (Raise the Red Lantern, House of the Flying Daggers) latest.

Also released as Kamikaze, Attack Squadron is a docu-drama set in Japan, World War II. It was the time the nation demanded the greatest degree of patriotism among Japanese as well as fatal devotion to suicidal missions. Senda (Toshiro Mifune - Seven Samurai, Rashomon) is an air-force officer with a shaken belief. He is uncertain about the wisdom of a kamikaze mission to attack a handful of the opponents' ships that is certain to rouse the wrath of the Americans. This film also presents rare news footage from the WWII.

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE CHIANG MAI
April 2005 film programme

Friday, April 1, 20h00
LES CHORISTES (2003)

Set in 1948, a professor of music, Clement Mathieu, becomes the supervisor at a boarding school for the rehabilitation of minors. What he discovers disconcerts him - the current situation is repressive. Through the power of music, will Clement transform the students?

Friday, April 8, 20h00
AMEN (2002)

Two men struggling from the inside. On one side, Kurt Gerstein, a real-life chemist and SS officer, supplies the death camps with Zyklon B while he tirelessly denounces the crimes and alerts the Allies, the Pope, the Germans and their churches at his family's and his own risk. On the other, Ricardo Fontana, a young Jesuit...

Friday, April 22, 20h00
L'ENFER (1993)

Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity. As he succumbs to green-eyed jealousy, his life starts to crumble. Each step on his downward spiral seems to accelerate his madness ...

Friday, April 29, 20h00
LA PEAU DOUCE (1964)

Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her…