The films of Jane Campion have brought the New Zealander an array of prestigious critical awards in just a few short years. Perhaps more rewarding, however, is the acceptance her work has found inside the corporate-run world of contemporary commercial...
Australian director and screenwriter Jane Campion (born 1954) created a number of films with strong female protagonists starting in the late 1980s. Among the best known of her works was the Academy-award-winning film The Piano (1993). Campion was born...
Jane Campion (born April 30, 1954 in Wellington, New Zealand) is an Academy Award-winning film maker. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries,...
PETER JACKSON'S Heavenly Creatures (18) is a film that slips the surly bonds of genre. It's a murder story without a mystery, a romance that lacks a single clinch, an airy fantasy that ends in wrenching brutality. With wit and daring, Jackson whisks us...
JANE CAMPION: INTERVIEWS Ed. Virginia Wright Wexman. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1999. 243 pp. $45.00 cloth. $18.00 paper. A volume of interviews of the same person functions as a sort of mirrored reception history. As we see similar questions repeated and answered, as...
Question 1 of 10:"Throne of Blood", a classic Japanese film about a murderous Samurai, is based on which play?a) Macbeth (1)b) Richard III (0)c) Hamlet (0)d) Othello (0)Question 2 of 10:Who recently directed an all-singing, all-dancing version of "Love's Labour's Lost"?a) Baz Luhrmann (0)b) Kenneth...
Today is Monday, April 30, the 120th day of 2007. There are 245 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 30, 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.On this...
Greenberg is an American educator, psychiatrist, nonfiction writer, and author of Screen Memories: Hollywood Cinema on the Psychoanalytic Couch (1993). In the following review, he discusses the themes of The Piano, focusing on sexuality and identity.
Kauffmann is an American playwright, actor, director, and critic. In the following excerpt, he contends that Campion is more interested in her film's visual impact than its narrative.
