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	PANDORA'S BOX
G. W. Pabst's classic of 1929. Louise Brooks plays a high class prostitute who dreams of marrying her lover but when rejected returns to her former pimp and goes downhill. Silent with music & English captions.

	THE PARALLAX VIEW
Political thriller. Witnesses to an assassination are killed off one by one despite efforts of crusading journalist. Dir. Pakula.

	PARIS TEXAS
Story of man who comes back from the dead to reclaim his young son & searches for former wife. Lovingly filmed ode to American landscape.

	A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Highly acclaimed adaptation of E M Forster's novel about India at start of century. A young woman follows her officer fiancé there.

PATHS OF GLORY

USA 1957 84 mins Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Kirk Douglas and Adolphe Menjou star in this searing indictment of French military incompetence and cover-up as Douglas seeks in vain to overturn death sentences imposed on three of his blameless privates, sacrificial lambs after a disastrous attack on German lines. ( Any British who feel smug after seeing this, please watch ‘Breaker Morant’)

Please note: only on DVD

	PATHER PANCHALI
1st part of Satyajit Ray's famous trilogy. Apu as a young boy in Bengali village experiences his first taste of delights and sorrows of life. Universally regarded as a poetic masterpiece. Bengali with EST.

	PATIENCE
Gilbert & Sullivan opera. Derek Hammond-Stroud & John Fryatt with London Symphony Orchestra and Ambrosian Opera Chorus.

	PELLE THE CONQUEROR
Danish/Swedish film of young boy starting out in a new land. He and his ailing father continually find new problems. Pelle faces choice of looking after his father or seeking a better life. E.S.T.

	PEPE LE MOKO
From the golden age of French cinema. Jean Gabin is quintessential seductive Pepe, fugitive jewel thief who lives in Algerian Casbah, protected from justice so long as he doesn't leave. French-EST.

	PERCEVAL LA GALLOIS
Dir.Eric Rohmer tells of the search for the Holy Grail, using rhyming couplets, medieval chorus and symbolic settings.

	PERFORMANCE
Dir. Nicholas Roeg. Vicious gangster moves in with ex-popstar. Pinterish melodrama about alter egos. "Humourless & messy" New Yorker.

	PERSONAL SERVICES
Supposedly based loosely on life of Cynthia Payne, notorious and affectionately regarded Streatham 'Madame'.

	PETER GREENAWAY: EARLY WORKS
3 of the first films by this talented (in some people's opinion) director. DEAR PHONE, WATER WRACKETS, A WALK THROUGH H.

	THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Original 1925 tinted version with Lon Chaney. Dir. Rupert Julian. Silent with music and English caption titles.

	THE PIANO
A recent great success. 3 Oscars. Jane Campion's film of mother, 9 year old daughter and a piano arriving for an arranged marriage in the remote bush of 19th century New Zealand.

	THE PICKWICK PAPERS
Double cassette BBC TV version. 3 hours. Pickwick & Co embark on uproarious and accident-prone adventures around England.

	PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
The first of the wave of fine Australian films which reached Britain. A party of schoolgirls visit Ayer's Rock and three of them go missing. Beautiful, mysterious & chilling. Dir. Peter Weir.

	THE PICTURE SHOW MAN
Australia in late 1920s. The entertainment highlight for townsfolk in the outback is the visit of the mobile showman who has a carefree life until a rival mobile cinema shows up.

	PINK FLOYD: THE WALL
A pop star (Bob Geldorf) on the way down finds his life a mixture of fact & fiction, (animation by Gerald Scarfe).

	PINOCCHIO
Disney Classic about the puppet which has life breathed into him so fulfilling the wishes of the old puppet maker.

	PIXOTE
Child crime & corruption in the slums of Brazil. An abandoned 8 year old is picked up during police sweep. Taken to a juvenile center where he picks up the basics of survival in the face of police brutality. EST.

	THE PLAGUE DOGS
Animation film by same team which made WATERSHIP DOWN. Two dogs escape from animal research laboratory where they are victims of harrowing scientific experiments. They are hunted like criminals because of the deadly virus they carry. Richard Adams' moving plea for animal rights.

	PLATOON
Relentless & harrowing, Platoon follows a raw recruit plunged into Vietnam War. Thought provoking and intelligent. Dir. Oliver Stone.

	THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
J.M. Synge's classic comedy play with Siobhan McKenna. Playboy Christy Mahon triggers off hilarious events when passing through remote Irish village. The innkeeper's daughter falls for him.

	PLAYTIME
Funny comedy from Jacques Tati. M.Hulot & group of American tourists are bewildered by modern technology during a holiday.

	THE PLOUGHMAN'S LUNCH
Jonathan Pryce brilliant as a seedy journalist who sacrifices integrity to succeed. A world of ambition at price of principle.

	POLAND: LAST STRONGHOLD OF STEAM IN EUROPE
Mixture of current and historical footage of steam on the Polish railways.

	POOR COW
Young London mother living in squalor with husband in jail. Dir. Ken Loach with Terence Stamp & Carol White. (Recently found dead in squalor)

	THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Double cassette. Authentic dramatization of Henry James novel. Spirited American girl searching for her own way of truth.

	THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE
Celebrated remake of classic film noir with Jack Nicholson & Jessica Lange. Guilty wife & lover murder her husband.

PRECARIOUS PEACE: GOD AND GUATEMALA

USA 2003 (11) Pt. 1 What does it take to end a war? 40 mins. Pt2 What does it take to ensure a peace? 32 mins. Designed as more than a self-contained documentary this film is meant to stimulate discussion and is supplied with a 14 page discussion guide. Apart from a ten year period from 1944 to 1954 Guatemala has only known dictatorships and has a culture of violence. “Violence is a sorcerer. It wears many faces. War is only the most obvious face” – Dennis Smith. Different Christian denominations stand on both sides in the continuing conflict. Film sponsored by Presbyterian Church, Albany, New York. & distributed by Maryknoll Missioners a Catholic order. A Study Guide is supplied

	PRESUMED INNOCENT
Harrison Ford is prime suspect in case of murder of woman with whom he had an affair. The investigations unravel his life.

	PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME.
Yugoslavia 1995. 127 mins. Dir: Srdjan Dragojevic. Set at the start of the Bosnian War. Based on true story of two young boys whose youthful oath of eternal friendship is broken by the conflict in which they are on opposing sides. Brutal and harrowing. English subtitles.

	PRICK UP YOUR EARS
The emotional friendship of playwright Joe Orton with actor Kenneth Halliwell who killed Orton in a fit of sexual jealousy.

	PRIDE & PREJUDICE (1940)
Laurence Olivier & Greer Garson. A reasonable U.S. version of Jane Austen's romantic comedy of early 19th century young lady and her attempts to find a husband. 116 minutes.

	PRIDE & PREJUDICE (1987)
Double cassette version. BBC TV English Classic series. Shows a world where "women of a certain class can survive only through men and are dependent on marriage". 220 minutes. Elizabeth Garvie.

	THE PRIME OF JEAN BRODIE
Marvelous performance by Maggie Smith as Brodie, an eccentric & outspoken teacher at exclusive Edinburgh school.

	PRINCESS IDA
Gilbert & Sullivan opera. LSO and Ambrosian Opera Chorus.

	THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII
The prewar Alexander Korda classic with Charles Laughton, Merle Oberon, Robert Donat and Elsa Lanchester.

	PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS
Kazakhstan/Russia 1996 95 Mins. Oscar nomination for best foreign film. This potent anti-war drama is the first major film to come out of the Chechen conflict. Enormous visual power using the breathtaking mountaintop setting in a story of two wounded Russian soldiers held captive by a rebel chieftain to exchange them for his son who is held by the Russian Army

	THE PRODUCERS
Mel Brook's frenetic tale of unsuccessful Jewish Broadway producer. For tax reasons he needs a failure but with 'Springtime for Hitler' he unfortunately has a great success. Zany humour throughout.

	PSYCHO
Hitchcock masterpiece of the macabre. Anthony Perkins as owner of 'old dark house' and adjoining motel. Not a place to spend a night.

	THE PUNCH AND JUDY MAN
Tony Hancock as a seaside entertainer who tries and fails to establish himself as an important citizen. A comedy of failure.

	THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
Woody Allen comedy. The borderline between fact & fantasy blurs as a film character steps down from silver screen and into the life of a bored & screen-struck waitress. Mia Farrow & Jeff Daniels.

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