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PANS LABYRINTH (0000)
Recently remarried Carmen moves with her daughter Oflia into the house of her new husband, coldly authoritarian Vidal, a captain in Francos army. Finding her new life hard to bear, the young girl seeks refuge in a mysterious labyrinth she discovers next to the sprawling family house.
PARADISE NOW (2005)
For a film made by a Palestinian about the last few hours in the life of a suicide bomber,
Paradise Now is careful not to glorify its subject.
PARIS JE T'AIME (2007)
21 directors names as seemingly incongruous as the Coen brothers, Wes Craven and Gurinder Chadha have carved up the citys arrondissements between themselves like postmodern imperialists.
PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
Stanley Kubrick's third film, was instantly banned in France for eighteen years and withdrawn from the Berlin Film Festival, it's suffice to say that the film's message successfully hit where it hurt. Adapted from Humphrey Cobb's novel based on factual events from WWI, it tells the story of the wrongful court-martial and execution of three French soldiers for cowardice.
PAYCHECK (2003)
Based on a short story written in 1953 by Philip K. Dick,
Paycheck inventively mingles the 'futuristic' and the 'realistic', creating a world of exotic technology to include devices that can erase memories, machines that can create the weather and smokeless cigarettes.
PERFECT SCORE, THE (2004)
Not just a pastiche of an 80s classic, the heist film genre is also behind this comic and energetic tale of high school students attempting to steal an exam paper.
PERFORMANCE (1970)
Arguably more about style (cinematically speaking) than substance,
Performance remains outrageous and disturbing in its portrayal of sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll in Gangster-led, swinging London.
PERFUME (2006)
Film adaptation of Patrick Sskind's gripping worldwide bestseller,
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer tells a very unique story about the life of murderous perfumer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.
PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA (2006)
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek takes us on an inspiring, three-part trip through the shadow world of cinema, illuminating via expertly judged clips how directors such as Hitchcock, Bergman and Lynch shape and reflect our fantasies and fears.
PETER PAN (2003)
Much more than romantic nostalgia or a simple bedtime story,
Peter Pan springs from a fantasy of flight and adventure that is both universal and timeless. For the first time, the original play is brought faithfully to in a live-action feature film.
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, THE (2004)
Lloyd Webber's smash hit stage musical has not translated comfortably to the big screen. While the performances are generally strong, the singing is far stronger than, and at times almost overwhelms, the straight acting.
PHONE (2002)
When a journalist breaks a story about a peadophile ring, she's forced into hiding. Things go from bad to worse, however, when changing her mobile number unleases the spirit of the - murdered - former owner. In the spirit of
Ringu and
Ju-on, fear and dread are conjured up out of very little.
PHONE BOOTH (2002)
Joel Schumacher's
Phone Booth stars Colin Farrell as a self-absorbed publicist who picks up a ringing telephone in a phone booth and then is told by a voice on the other end that he will be shot if he hangs up.
PIANIST, THE (2002)
Based on the memoirs of celebrated pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman,
The Pianist is the tale of his survival in the Polish ghetto, even while literally under the Nazi's noses (or rather, over their heads) as a result of his virtuoso gift for music.
PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES, THE (2005)
More than ten years after their astonishing feature debut
Institute Benjamenta, the Quay brothers' long-awaited follow-up again plunges audiences into their signature world of gothic fairy tales, dark, disturbing nightmares, and their surreal mix of live action and puppet animation.
PIECES OF APRIL (2003)
From
Hannah and Her Sisters through to
The Ice Storm, the dysfunctional family Thanksgiving has proved a rather popular story for filmmakers. But despite it's ubiquitous presence in cinema, rest assured: this film is really quite good.
PIERREPOINT - THE LAST HANGMAN (2005)
Timothy Spall portrays Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most prolific hangman, in a rare instance of a thought-provoking film delving into the mind of a man legally sanctioned to kill.
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS (2008)
Pineapple Express is the latest film from the folk who brought you
Knocked Up and
Superbad - a stoner-action-comedy in the tradition of the Cheech and Chong films you may have watched as a student.
PING PONG (2002)
Based on a Japanese comic strip,
Ping Pong is a coming-of-age teen movie crossed with a triumph-over-adversity sports story. If this makes
Ping Pong sound like a clich-ridden film, then it's to the filmmaker's credit that the film feels fresh and exhilarating.
PINK PANTHER (2006)
The whole family will be tickled pink this summer thanks to the slapstick escapades of Inspector Clouseau in the hilarious all-new
Pink Panther, available to buy on DVD and UMD Video and to rent on DVD, on 17th July 2006, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (2007)
We speak with
Director Gore Verbisnki about the third Pirates installment. Picking up where the record-breaking 2006 smash hit left off, our heroes are in a desperate quest to free Captain Jack Sparrow.
Out now.
PLANET TERROR (2007)
Robert Rodriguez, co-director of
Sin City, brings you
Planet Terror, a retro-futuristic vision of horror that's been weathered, stripped, and aged to perfection.
PLEASANT DAYS (2002)
A repetitive cocktail of abuse, nudity and violence hang about the central premise in the ironically-titled
Pleasant Days: Marika has been pretending to be pregnant for months, with the intention of buying a friend's baby. She hasn't counted on maternal instincts, however.
POLAR EXPRESS, THE (2004)
It sounds more like a
Multiplicity-type horror - a virtual world populated with many Tom Hanks. Not just 'the Tom Hanks show', however,
The Polar Express is an animated feature in the traditional line of heart-tugging, self-discovering, warm and cosy Christmas movies.
POSEIDON (2006)
New Year's Eve and festivities have begun aboard the Poseidon, one of the finest vessels of its kind. But the ship is about to be engulfed by a monstrous wall of water and the survivors must fight their way to the surface.
PREMONITION (2007)
Linda Hanson's life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband has died in a car accident. For this devoted wife and mother, it's the worst she could imagine. But did she imagine it? When Linda wakes up the following morning her husband (
Julian McMahon) is alive.
PRETTY PERSUASION (2006)
Following an award-winning performance in
Thirteen (2003), Wood reprises the role of precocious, rebellious, and hyper-sexualised teen for Siegas dark comedy,
Pretty Persuasion. Perverse and uncompromising, even desensitised cinema-goers will likely gasp at the depths to which the film sinks.
PRICK UP YOUR EARS (1987)
Twenty years on, Stephen Frears'
Prick Up Your Ears makes a welcome return to the big screen in a newly restored and remastered version. The film is a celebration, even in tragedy, of outrageous British playwright Joe Orton's irreverent and charismatic talent.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)
Adaptation of Jane Austin's award winning novel Pride And Prejudice, about the story of the Bennett family.
PRIMER (2004)
Everything you read about
Primer will tell you how confusing and baffling it is, but also how compelling and intellectually stimulating. That a film heavy on physics (and time travel) can confound and mesmerise at the same time is just one of
Primer's unique attractions.
PRINCE AND ME, THE (2004)
Once upon a time every young girl fantasized about being swept off her feet by a handsome prince from a far away land, with a wardrobe full of cummerbunds. Whether that's true or not, it forms the basis for the crossing-over-the-tracks teenage rom-com,
The Prince and Me.
PRINCESS (2006)
A cunning and innovative mix of media, Anders Morgenthalers debut feature is a rich and strange investigation into the complex moral issues surrounding pornography, blending anime with live action to devastating effect and exploiting each formats visual language to its maximum emotional impact.
PRINCESS DIARIES 2: A ROYAL ENGAGEMENT (2004)
Gawky-schoolgirl-turned-princess Mia (Anne Hathaway) returns to face political machinations as Viscount Mabrey attempts to get a foot in at the throne, unless Mia quickly marries. Cue a pleasingly old-fashioned teenage Rom Com.
PRINCESS RACCOON (2006)
Internationally acclaimed director Seijun Suzuki brings the tale of
Princess Raccoon to life in a brilliantly conceived film based on the hugely popular Tanukigoten musicals of the 1940s and 50s, beloved of generations of Japanese audiences. Now screening at the
ICA.
PRINCIPLES OF LUST, THE (2003)
To call Penny Woolcock's first feature,
The Principles of Lust, 'frank' is a huge understatement. This is a film that encapsulates its subject matter - desire, sex, and bare-knuckle boxing.
PRODUCERS, THE (2005)
In 1968, Mel Brooks wrote and directed his first film, 'The Producers'. It was about a musical. In 2001, a musical adaptation of the film hit Broadway. Now, in 2005, the musical based on a film about a musical has been made into a film.
PROOF (2005)
Gwyneth Paltrow and director John Madden 's third collaboration sees them reprising their respective roles from the Donmar's stage production of
Proof, an adaptation of David Auburn's Pulitzer prize-winning play. Both were in town at the London Film Festival 2005 to attend the red carpet Gala of the UK's first public screening of the film.
PROPOSITION, THE (2005)
Scripted by Aussie singer/songwriter and one time novelist, Nick Cave, this dark Western takes us right into the festering heart of colonial Australia.
PROVOKED (2006)
In May 1989, an Asian woman set fire to her husband Deepak after suffering his brutality for 10 years. She was charged with murder and imprisoned for life. Following the involvement of the Southall Black Sisters, Kiranjit Ahluwalia was released in September 1992 in a landmark case.
PSYCHO (1960)
One of the most iconic films ever made and possibly Hitchcock's best (always a debatable statement),
Psycho represents the beginning of the modern horror genre.
PUBLIC ENEMIES (2009)
In the action-thriller Public Enemies, acclaimed filmmaker Michael Mann directs Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard in the story of legendary Depression-era outlaw John Dillinger - the charismatic bank robber whose lightning raids made him the number one target of J. Edgar Hoovers fledgling FBI and its top agent.
PULP FICTION (1994)
They fight, they kill, they get high and they.. dance? Welcome to the twisted characters from Tarantino's complex tale of two likeable gangsters, their seemingly mysterious boss, his sexually provocative wife, the boxer who betrayed him, and an unexplained glowing suitcase.
PULSE (KAIRO) (2001)
Pulse tells the story of a haunted website that asks whether the user would like to see a ghost. Despite the strange things happening to those who reply, a whole city becomes addicted and an epidemic of mass suicide and disappearances is the result.
PUNISHER (2004)
A Marvel hero without superpowers, The Punisher is a tortured, lone gunman, out for revenge on the gangster who destroyed his family. Swinging between violence and comedy, this is a return to the 80s-style action thriller of the Stallone/Schwarzenegger school.
PUNISHMENT PARK (1971)
More than three decades after its initial release, Peter Watkins'
Punishment Park remains something of a '1984'-style forwarning of the current paranoia and disintegration of rights and liberties in the face of the 'war on terror'. Stark, poignant and uncomfortable viewing.
PURE (2002)
A harrowing story of ten-year-old Paul, a mother's little helper who, in this case, deals with mum's heroin addiction, mixing up her 'special mixtures' just the way she likes, and fending off her drug dealer boyfriend.
PUSH (2009)
Push is an exciting action-thriller set in the modern-day world of psychic espionage. Mick and Cassie are among a group of unique individuals who have inherited and developed specials psychic abilities that originated from human experiments conducted by the Nazi regime during World War II.
PUSHER TRILOGY, THE (2005)
Demonstrating the films' extraordinary content, style and sheer entertainment value,
The Pusher Trilogy DVD release coincides with the high profile
NFT's run featuring all three films, as well as the theatrical release of
Pusher 3 (the final instalment in the trilogy).
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST (BLU RAY) (2006)
