
The Passion of the Christ
Mel Gibson
127 minutes

(#247)
Theatrical: 2004
Studio: Icon Productions
Genre: Drama
Writer: Benedict Fitzgerald, Mel Gibson
Date Added: 02 Feb 2008
The Passion of the Christ
Mel Gibson
127 minutes

(#247)

Languages: he, DTS 5.1; he, Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Comments: By his wounds, we were healed.
Summary: The Passion of The Christ focusses on the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film begins in the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus has gone to pray after sitting the Last Supper. Jesus must resist the temptations of Satan. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death.


Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer
Tom Tykwer
141 minutes

(#248)
Theatrical: 2006
Studio: Pathe Distribution Ltd
Genre: Thriller
Writer: Andrew Birkin, Bernd Eichinger, Tom Tykwer, Patrick Süskind
Date Added: 01 Sep 2007
Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer
Tom Tykwer
141 minutes

(#248)

Sound: DTS
Comments: Based on the best-selling novel
Summary: Based on Patrick Suskind's novel about a serial killer who hunts victims with his superhuman sense of smell, Perfume: Story of a Murderer is a florid, grisly portrayal of this historical drama set in 18th century France. Jean-Baptiste Grunuis (Ben Whishaw) is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents. A childhood of neglect and, later, a job at a tannery, encourage Jean-Baptiste to develop his olfactory sense rather than his verbal skills, so that an opportunity to prove his worth to Parisian perfumist, Giuseppe Baldini (Dustin Hoffman), results in his immediate hire into a promising new career. His successes in perfume mixing are negated by a blinding obsession for capturing the sublime beauty of human soul, which in his twisted logic requires the killing of young women to reduce their body fats to essential oils for the ultimate, cannibalised eau de parfum. An omniscient narrator tells the story with much sympathy for Jean-Baptiste's perverted psychology, making it, often, too obvious that his need for love justifies his murderous desire to capture misguided sexual attractions in a vile. Continuous close-ups of Grunius's nose, countered by close-ups of the places and objects he smells, enhance the viewer's understanding of his sensitivity. Repeated comparisons are made between the killer and dogs who aid, then expose his sick experimentation. The settings are fascinating, especially Baldini's perfumery and some later scenes in enflorage factories outside Provence. Whishaw's and Hoffman's performances are both grand. But Perfume unnecessarily spells out Jean-Baptiste's psychosis, squelching any chance for metaphor. This is unfortunate, considering the story's paradoxical nature. As this crude hunter navigates his way through a world of utmost delicacy, one craves ambiguity rather than explanation. --Trinie Dalton


The Pianist
Roman Polanski
150 minutes

(#249)
Theatrical: 2002
Studio: R.P. Productions
Genre: Biography
Writer: Wladyslaw Szpilman, Ronald Harwood
Date Added: 02 Feb 2008
The Pianist
Roman Polanski
150 minutes

(#249)

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, DTS 5.1 ES; French, Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Subtitles: Spanish, French
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Comments: Music was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece.
Summary: A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.


Picnic at Hanging Rock
Peter Weir
115 minutes

(#250)
Theatrical: 1975
Studio: Australian Film Commission, The
Genre: Drama
Writer: Joan Lindsay, Cliff Green
Date Added: 03 Feb 2008
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Peter Weir
115 minutes

(#250)

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Comments: Australia's First International Hit! [Video Australia]
Summary: Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, not the answering of them.


The Pillow Book
Peter Greenaway
126 minutes

(#251)
Theatrical: 1996
Studio: Kasander & Wigman Productions
Genre: Drama
Writer: Sei Shonagon, Peter Greenaway
Date Added: 02 Feb 2008
The Pillow Book
Peter Greenaway
126 minutes

(#251)

Subtitles: English
Sound: Dolby
Comments: Things that make the heart beat faster.
Summary: As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.


Pink Floyd - The Wall
Alan Parker
95 minutes

(#252)
Theatrical: 1982
Studio: Sony Bmg
Genre: Musical
Writer: Roger Waters
Date Added: 22 Sep 2007
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Alan Parker
95 minutes

(#252)

Sound: 70 mm 6-Track
Comments: Pink Floyd The Wall. Now The Film.
Summary: By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd's The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant and superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because the entire exercise is hopelessly dour, loyal to the bleak themes and psychological torment of Roger Waters' great musical opus, and yet utterly devoid of the humour that Waters certainly found in his own material. Any attempt to visualise The Wall would be fraught with artistic danger, and Parker succumbs to his own self-importance, creating a film that's as fascinating as it is flawed. The film is, for better and worse, the fruit of three artists in conflict--Parker indulging himself, and Waters in league with designer Gerald Scarfe, whose brilliant animated sequences suggest that he should have directed and animated this film in its entirety. Fortunately, this clash of talent and ego does not prevent The Wall from being a mesmerising film. Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof (in his screen debut) is a fine choice to play Waters's alter ego--an alienated, "comfortably numb" rock star whose psychosis manifests itself as an emotional (and symbolically physical) wall between himself and the cold, cruel world. Weaving Waters's autobiographical details into his own jumbled vision, Parker ultimately fails to combine a narrative thread with experimental structure. It's a rich, bizarre, and often astonishing film that will continue to draw a following, but the real source of genius remains the music of Roger Waters. --Jeff Shannon


Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Gore Verbinski
150 minutes

(#253)
Theatrical: 2006
Studio: Jerry Bruckheimer Films
Genre: Fantasy
Writer: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie, Jay Wolpert
Date Added: 02 Feb 2008
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Gore Verbinski
150 minutes

(#253)

Sound: SDDS
Summary: Once again we're plunged into the world of sword fights and "savvy" pirates. Captain Jack Sparrow is reminded he owes a debt to Davy Jones, Who captains the flying Dutch man ,a ghostly ship, with a crew from hell. Facing the "locker" Jack must find the heart of Davy Jones but to save himself he must get the help of quick-witted Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan. If that's not complicated enough will and Elizabeth are sentenced to hang, unless will can get Lord Cutler Beckett Jack's compass, Will is forced to join another crazy adventure with Jack.


The Plumber
Peter Weir
76 minutes

(#254)
Theatrical: 1979
Studio: Australian Film Commission, The
Genre: Horror
Writer: Peter Weir
Date Added: 03 Feb 2008
The Plumber
Peter Weir
76 minutes

(#254)

Sound: Mono
Comments: The Australian New Wave Has Come
Summary: In Adelaide, the wife of Dr. Brian Cowper, Jill Cowper, is developing her thesis at home to finish her Master in Anthropology. When the plumber Max unexpectedly arrives for a routine check and maintenance of the piping in the bathroom, Jill stays alone at home with the talkative weird stranger. Along the days, he tells that he spent some time in prison, making Jill frightened with his presence. Her friend Meg, her husband Brian and the super's wife finds Max a simple, but nice man, but Jill does not agree. When there is a problem in her bathroom and Max needs to stay with her for a longer period, the tension between them increases and Jill finds a way to get rid off the plumber.


Powaqqatsi
Godfrey Reggio
99 minutes

(#255)
Theatrical: 1988
Studio: Santa Fe Institute for Regional Education
Genre: Documentary
Writer: Godfrey Reggio, Ken Richards
Date Added: 02 Feb 2008
Powaqqatsi
Godfrey Reggio
99 minutes

(#255)

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
Comments: Life in Transformation
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Privates on Parade
Michael Blakemore
97 minutes

(#256)
Theatrical: 1982
Studio: HandMade Films
Genre: Comedy
Writer: Peter Nichols
Date Added: 02 Feb 2008
Privates on Parade
Michael Blakemore
97 minutes

(#256)

Sound: Mono
Comments: Malaysia, 1947. Some fought. Some danced.
Summary: The members of SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) fall in and out of love while trying to dodge Malayan Communist bullets in the late 1940s. Not only that, they have to contend with a loony, bible bashing Major (John Cleese) who creates far more danger than any of the jungle inhabitants. Only gay captain Dennis Quilley seems capable of coping with him but even he isn't aware of the cowardly Michael Elphick selling arms to the natives.


Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
154 minutes

(#257)
Theatrical: 1994
Studio: A Band Apart
Genre: Thriller
Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
Date Added: 02 Feb 2008
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
154 minutes

(#257)

Sound: Dolby SR
Comments: Girls like me don't make invitations like this to just anyone!
Summary: Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

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