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

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)

A month of lost souls

An American film actor visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, they make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo, suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese.

An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his empty days contemplating suicide alone in his lifeless apartment. His life completely changes when he witnesses the death of Nid seconds before he was about to jump off a bridge. This event pairs him with Nid's elder sister as these two lost and lonely souls help each other find the meaning to their meaningless existences.

Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.

In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in the present is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneously linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, the author of the above-mentioned novel.

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE CHIANG MAI
NOVEMBER 2006 film programme

Friday, November 3, 20h00
LE JOUR SE LEVE (1939)

Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young florist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin, a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy...

Friday, November 10, 20h00
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…

Friday, November 17, 20h00
PIERROT LE FOU (1965)

Ferdinand meets an old love, Marianne. But at her place, they fall upon a cumbersome corpse. They then decide to flee the killers through France to an island where they might be safe… One of Jean-Paul Belmondo's best roles in this "Nouvelle Vague" film.

Friday, November 24, 20h00
L'AFFAIRE EST DANS LE SAC (1934)

Benjamin is a hat maker, more or less crazy but certainly dishonest. He plans to kidnap the son of a Mr. Hollister, a wealthy American nicknamed "The King of Blotting Paper". He is helped by Clovis and Jean-Paul, a shy fellow with whom Hollister's daughter is deeply in love…

THE EUROPEAN UNION
FILM FESTIVAL 2006

One of Chiang Mai's big cultural events is the European Film Festival, which this year will be presenting us Northern Capital film freaks with its usual problem - how are we going to fit our working hours into its schedule? Well, we'll worry about that (a little) when the time comes. Meanwhile, here's what's on offer. Start marking up your calendar!

European Union Film Festival
Programme 2006

Chiang Mai 16-26 November, the Vista Chiang Mai Tel:0-5389-4415

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.