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AVP - Predator

A billionaire finances an expedition to the Antarctic to uncover a pyramid long-since buried. However, when the team of scientists arrives, they come to realize that the frozen continent is the battle field for two alien races-and now they are caught in the middle. No matter who wins, we lose.

A Cinderella Story

High school senior, Sam Montgomery, lives at the beck and call of her self-obsessed step-mother, Fiona, and her sinfully wicked step-sisters, who treat her more like a servant than a member of the family. With her sights set on attending Princeton, Sam finds her less-than-sparkling social life wonderfully complicated when she meets her prince charming online. However, when her anonymous cyber soul mate turns out to be her high school’s ?ber-popular quarterback Austin Ames, Sam makes a mad dash back to reality, leaving her cell phone behind just before the clock strikes midnight. Fearing rejection if her secret is revealed, Sam dodges Austin’s relentless efforts to discover the identity of his princess. Will Sam let fear hold her back, or will she find the courage to be herself and claim the life she’s always wanted? Her chance at “happily ever after” depends on it.

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!

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE CHIANG MAI
August 2004 film programme

Tuesday, August 3 - Friday, August 6
LES PORTES DE LA NUIT (1946)

The story takes place during the harsh winter that followed the liberation of Paris. The atmosphere of the time is excellently rendered and the acting very good except for Yves Montand who is touchingly inexperienced in his first film role.

Tuesday, August 10 - Friday, August 13
CE QUE SAVAIT MORGAN (1974)

The Morren family hires Pemberton as a private tutor for their son Morgan. Pemberton is far from being wealthy and the social anticonformity of his employers makes them unable to pay him his wages. However, a strong relationship sets up between the teacher and the pupil…

Tuesday, August 17 - Friday, August 20
LA VIE ET RIEN D’AUTRE (1989)

1920, two years after the Great War, France, with a quarter of its territory destroyed, is licking its wounds in a flurry of festive activity set against the enormous construction sites of its reconstruction. All over survivors are bustling about, working relentlessly in order to forget the nightmare of the last four years, which they manage to do. In this chaotic atmosphere, two young women who come from very different social backgrounds and who do not know each other are pursuing the same goal: to find the man they love and who has disappeared in the turmoil…

Tuesday, August 24 - Friday, August 27
LUMIERE D’ETE (1943)

The French upper class is chastised in this socially conscious drama that focuses on a young naive woman who travels to a mountain resort with her fiancé, expecting a romantic weekend…

Tuesday, August 31- Friday, September 3
TABLE TOURNANTE (1988)

This full-length film made by Paul Grimault, born in 1905 and who won many awards for his cartoons - Prix Louis Delluc, the Berlin Golden Bear - is an assemblage of clips from several productions. It presents a number of cartoon characters who chat with the director and ask him to show them films which were produced before they were born…