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Your Film Page

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

These films are shown in the lecture room on the second floor of the Media Art and Design Building, Chiang Mai University Art Museum, every Saturday at 6.30 p.m. (Admission Free)

Set in 1930s China, Red Sorghum narrates the life of a rural girl sold in marriage to the owner of a remote sorghum winery. After the husband's death, she is caught between her responsibility for this isolated business and the political crisis of the Japanese invasion to China. Red Sorghum won 1988 Berlin International Film Festival for Best Director.

Demonstrating how social tradition can lead people to a tragic end, the plot presents an incestuous relationship of the female protagonist against the backcloth of traditional China during 1920s. Despite his close attention to the specifics of the time and place, Zhang succeeds in giving his drama a universal dimension.

Regarded as one of his masterpieces, Zhang's Raise the Red Lantern illustrates the patriarchal society of 1920s China through Songlian, a nineteen year old girl who is forced to marry a privileged old man who has already got three wives. The film won the1993 BAFTA Award for Best Film in a non-English language.

COMMERCIAL CINEMAS IN CHIANG MAI

Chiang Mai is not without good cinemas for film buffs. Although only two cinema operators are competing to attract the big-screen fans, a wide variety of choices are on offer daily from noon to midnight.

The Vista Entertainment Group

Established about 13 years ago, Vista theaters on the fourth floor of Kad Suan Kaew introduced the people of Chiang Mai to the multiplex theaters and the thrills of Hollywood magic. Of the seven digital-sound theaters in Kad Suan Kaew, Vista 1 - 4 offer a large capacity and big screen, while the rest are of medium and low capacity. Vista Group also has four other large capacity theaters, of which two at the 12 Huay Kaew arcade opposite Kad Suan Kaew also show English-speaking films.

Reservation: phone 053-894415 (Kad Suan Kaew), 053- 404374 (12 Huay Kaew)

Major Cineplex

A now household name for movie theater buffs in Thailand, Major Cineplex offers a relatively new cinema complex on the fourth floor of Central Airport Plaza. Although the theaters are generally of lower capacity, they boast more comfortable seats and superior audio-visual systems.

Reservation: phone 053-283939, or visit http://www.majorcineplex.com for on-line ticketing.