2000 A.D

Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq d'Or

PLACE: Theatre Musical de Paris, Chatelet, 2002 COMPANY: Mariinsky Theatre Chorus LANGUAGE: Russian ORCHESTRA: Orchestra de Paris CONDUCTOR: Kent Nagano

Alive

In 1972, a team of Latin American rugby players crash into the Andes Mountains and the survivors are forced to face a grim truth - either they eat the dead or they all die. The crash is spectacular and the performances are worthy of praise, but the film deals only superficially with the horror and despair involved.

Almost Famous

A music-mad 70s teenager finds himself on tour with a rock group as a Rolling Stone reporter after lying about his age to wangle a place on tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater. Fifteen year old William leaps head first into sex, drugs and a rock 'n' roll lifestyle. He comes to idolise lead guitarist Russell Hammond - unfortunately he also falls in love with Russell's girlfriend, Penny Lane!

Kangaroo Jack - G'Day USA

Jackie Legs (Kangaroo Jack) returns to the small screen for an animated sequel to the original live-action film. Poachers kidnap Jackie from the Australian Outback and bumbling Brooklyn buddies Louise, Charlie and Jessie must to leap into action! Their attempts to save the cool Kangaroo see our heroes head back to the USA and into the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas - but things are not all that they seem... They become tangled up in a cross-continental jewel heist and now the FBI think that they are the crooks! In order to prove their innocence they have to find the jewels to find the jewels all they have to do is find Jack - but Jack is in Las Vegas... somewhere...

Gene Hackman Collection

Five films starring Gene Hackman. Heist - Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) thinks that life is just great. He has a beautiful wife, a job he loves and money owed to him. He's a thief. But everything goes wrong when he gets caught on a security camera tape. Then his fence reneges on the money he's owed and to make matters worse he thinks his wife may be having an affair with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore and his team find themselves in a hopeless situation. They are broke, betrayed and being blackmailed. So Moore is forced to commit his team to one last heist... Unforgiven (Special Edition) - Eleven years ago outlaw William Munny laid down his gun, married and fathered two children. Now, his wife dead, his children hungry and his stock dying of disease, he is persuaded to join the Schofield Kid looking for a partner to gun down two cowboys who cut up a prostitute. Absolute Power - Thriller based on the novel by David Baldassi. Luther Witney always plans his jobs with meticulous precision, he is a perfectionist avoiding any public acknowledgement of his skill as a master thief. Unfortunately, even he couldn't foresee that the wife of a wealthy businessman would bring her lover home and even worse, her lover is the President of the United States. When he witnesses her murder and the murderer is the President, Luther knows that he is a wanted man... Under Suspicion - On the island of Puerto Rico powerful lawyer, Harry Hearst discovers the body of a young girl while out jogging, and is asked to attend the police station to help clear up a couple of points. The girl is the third that month to have been murdered and his friend Captain Victor Benezet, thinks that Hearst is more involved than he implies. As the questioning begins, cracks begin to emerge in his story, especially his relationship with his beautiful wife, 30 years his junior... Extreme Measures - Dr Guy Luthan is on duty in one of New York City's busiest Trauma Rooms when a homeless man, wearing a mysterious hospital wristband, is brought in. He dies from bizarre symptoms and Luthan is determined to discover the cause. His professional concern soon deepens into disbelief when he discovers horrific details about a private medical research programme that centres around one of the country's foremost medical figures.