Film Archive: P

György Pálfi

• Hukkle

G.W. Pabst

• Feature: Louise Brooks at 100: Interview with Peter Cowie
• Feature: It’s Not Nice, It’s Art!

G.W. Pabst, Robert Wiene, Arthur Robison

• German Expressionism Collection: The Hands of Orlac / The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari / Secrets of a Soul / Warning Shadows

Chris Paine

• Who Killed the Electric Car?

Melissa Painter

• Admissions
• Wildflowers

Greg Pak

• Robot Stories

Alan J. Pakula

• Starting Over

Mark Palansky

• Penelope

Greg Palast

• Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans

Brian De Palma

• Femme Fatale
• Hi, Mom
• Mission to Mars
• Mission to Mars
• The Untouchables: Special Collector's Edition

Tony Palmer

• England, My England
• Harvest of Sorrow: Tony Palmer's Film About Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Feature: The Best Music DVDs of 2007

Bruce Paltrow

• Duets

Jafar Panahi

• Offside

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Jafar Panahi's Offside uses handheld mobile framing and non-professional actors to create a natural-seeming rhythm, immersing you in multiple experiences, introducing a number of characters all connected by events, desires, and circumstances.

   
• Offside
• The Circle (dayereh)

Danny and Oxide Pang

• The Eye

Oxide Pang, Danny Pang

• The Messengers

Robert Kane Pappas

• Orwell Rolls in His Grave

Sergei Paragjanov

• The Films of Sergei Paradjanov: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors / The Color of Pomegranates / The Legend of Suram Fortress / Ashik Kerib

Chuck Parello

• Ed Gein

Jerry Paris

• Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

Dean Parisot

• Fun With Dick and Jane
• Galaxy Quest
• Galaxy Quest

Chan-wook Park

• Lady Vengeance

Chanwook Park

• Oldboy

Ki-Hyung Park

• Acacia

Alan Parker

• Angela's Ashes
• The Life of David Gale
• The Road to Wellville

Jonathan Parker

• Bartleby

Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi

• Feature: A Gallery of Good Works: The Best Films of 2007
• Persepolis
• News: Daughter of the revolution tells her animated tale in 'Persepolis'
• Persepolis

Will Pascoe

• Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause

Pier Paolo Pasolini

• Teorema

John Pasquin

• Joe Somebody
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Ivan Passer

• Cutter's Way

Don Michael Paul

• The Garden
• Half Past Dead
• Half Past Dead

Eric "Bibo" Bergeron and Don Paul

• The Road to El Dorado

Pawel Pawlikowski

• Last Resort
• My Summer of Love

Bill Paxton

• Frailty
• The Greatest Game Ever Played

Babak Payami

• Secret Ballot

Alexander Payne

• About Schmidt
• Election
• Sideways
• Sideways
• Sideways

Nonny de la Peña

• Unconstitutional: the War on Our Civil Liberties

David Peck, Phil Galloway, Tom Gulotta, Rob Bowman

• Movin' On Up: The Music And Message Of Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions

Josh Peck

• News: Fast chat with 'The Wackness' star Josh Peck

Raoul Peck

• Profit and Nothing But!
• Lumumba

Sam Peckinpah

• Straw Dogs

Mario Van Peebles

• Baadasssss!
• Baadasssss!

Simon Pegg [Hot Fuzz]

• News: Taking aim at cop movies with 'Hot Fuzz'
• News: With 'Fatboy' and 'Star Trek,' Simon Pegg is playing it straight for a change

Kimberly Peirce

• Boys Don't Cry
• Stop-Loss
• News: 'Boys Don't Cry' director changes course with Iraq War drama 'Stop-Loss'

Anthony Pelissier

• The Rocking Horse Winner

Mark Pellington

• The Mothman Prophecies
• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

Alexandra Pelosi

• Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi
• News: Filmmaker Pelosi puts focus on evangelicals

Arthur Penn

• Little Big Man
• Bonnie and Clyde: Two-Disc Special Edition

Sean Penn

• The Pledge
• Into the Wild

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Into the Wild reveals the sense of loss that drove Chris McCandless. It also shows that it isn't only his.

   
• News: Emile Hirsch talks about his 'Wild' adventure film
• News: Sean Penn voyages 'Into the Wild'
• Into the Wild

  PopMatters Pick

  

  A "follow your dreams" narrative in a package that belies the cliché that it expounds upon.

   
• Column: The Escape Artist

Zak Penn

• Incident At Loch Ness
• The Grand

D.A. Pennebaker

• Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe

• Lost in La Mancha
• Lost in La Mancha

Stacy Peralta

• Dogtown and Z-boys
• Riding Giants

Manuel Gómez Pereira

• Reinas (Queens)

Vadim Perelman

• House of Sand and Fog

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Property is at the center of House of Sand and Fog.

   
• The Life Before Her Eyes
• Column: Living the Dream: The Life Before Her Eyes
• News: 'The Life Before Her Eyes' director shrugs off criticism

Jesse Peretz

• The Ex

Dein Perry

• Bootmen

Frank Perry

• Mommie Dearest: Hollywood Royalty Edition

Tyler Perry

• Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls

P.J. Pesce

• Sniper 3

Wolfgang Petersen

• Poseidon
• Das Boot (the Original Uncut Version)
• The Perfect Storm
• The Perfect Storm

Wolfgang Peterson

• Troy

Daniel Petrie

• Lifeguard

Donald Petrie

• Just My Luck
• Just My Luck
• How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• Miss Congeniality

Damien Pettigrew

• Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Michelle Pfeiffer [Stardust]

• News: Michelle Pfeiffer winning acclaim for her recent work

Todd Phillips

• School for Scoundrels
• Bittersweet Motel
• Old School
• Road Trip
• Starsky & Hutch

Giuseppe Piccioni

• Not of This World (fuori Dal Mondo)

Irving Pichel, Lansing C. Holden

• She

Andrew Piddington

• The Killing of John Lennon

Prachya Pinkaew

• The Protector (Tom yum goong)

Jeremy Piven [Smokin' Aces]

• News: Jeremy Piven serves an ace in his first dramatic starring role
• News: Jeremy Piven finally makes it -- but fame brings its own problems

Mark Piznarski

• Here on Earth

riter/producer: Jeremy Podeswa

• The Five Senses

Gregory Poirier

• Tomcats

Laura Poitras

• My Country, My Country

  Featured Article

  

  Though the elections were over in January 2005, My Country exposes tensions that remain raw, if ever shifting.

   

Roman Polanski

• The Ninth Gate
• The Ninth Gate
• Oliver Twist
• The Pianist
• The Tenant
• Tess (special Edition)
• Feature: Part 3: The Stellar '70s
• Feature: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Jake
• Column: The Demise of Horror Culture?

Mack Polhemus

• My Bad Dad

Mark Polish and Matt Polish [The Astronaut Farmer]

• News: Brothers launch their youthful space-cowboy dreams

Michael Polish

• The Astronaut Farmer
• Jackpot
• Northfork

Jon Poll

• Charlie Bartlett
• Charlie Bartlett

Sydney Pollack

• Sketches of Frank Gehry by Sydney Pollack
• The Interpreter

Sarah Polley

• Away from Her

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Both careful and contrived, Away from Her paints marriage as a series of losses, fulfillments, and compromises, infinitely rewarding and painful.

   
• Feature: Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

John Polson

• Hide and Seek

Jon Polson

• Swimfan

Gillo Pontecorvo

• The Battle of Algiers: Criterion Collection

D.J. Pooh

• The Wash

nd Writer: D.J. Pooh

• 3 Strikes

Lea Pool

• Lost and Delirious

Sally Potter

• The Man Who Cried

Michael Powell

• The Edge of the World

Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan

• The Thief of Bagdad - Criterion Collection

Doug Pray

• Scratch

Otto Preminger

• Bunny Lake Is Missing
• Bonjour Tristesse
• Laura

Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, Sarah Price

• The Yes Men
• The Yes Men

Gina Prince-Blythewood

• Love & Basketball

Rob Pritz

• Corky Romano

Al Profit

• News: Filmmaker makes a statement about crime in Detroit

Penn Jillette, Paul Provenza

• The Aristocrats

Alex Proyas

• Garage Days
• Garage Days
• I, Robot
• I, Robot
• Feature: Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

Joe Layton/Richard Pryor

• Richard Pryor: Stand-up:richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Striprichard Pryor: Here and Now

Cristi Puiu

• The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

  Featured Article

  

  If only Lazarescu had wandered into a slick American melodrama, maybe someone would have made sure he received the relief he needed.

   
• Feature: The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini

• Off the Menu: the Last Days of Chasen's

Philip Pullman

• News: The author of 'The Golden Compass' doesn't mince words

Tom Putnam

• The Hottie & the Nottie

Kunihiko Yuyama (Japanese production), Michael Haigney (U.S. production)

• Kids Wb Presents Pokémon 3: the Movie