Topic: Jane Campion

Sundance Institute 2011 shorts program

Incident by a BankIf there's one short film in this program (which plays through Thursday at the Music Box Theatre) that benefits from being seen...

Record female line-up takes aim at Cannes gold

Unflinching films by an unprecedented number of women are leading the charge for the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year and going for the jugular with hard looks at sex, violence and family life.French actress and film-maker Maiwenn will Friday ...

Short Film Competition Lineup

Jane Campion, director of Bright Star and Portrait of a Lady, and Brit auteur Lynne Ramsay, whose We Need To Talk About Kevin is In Competition...
Jane Campion is one of the most intriguing female directors today. Her first short film Peel (1982) won the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986. This film has shown the undisputable talent of Jane Campion. Her second important ...

In the Cut

Aspects of the topic In the Cut are discussed in the following places at Britannica. 1996), an adaptation of the novel by Henry James; Holy Smoke (1999), a dramedy that examines spiritual awakenings and deprogrammers; and the thriller In the Cut (2003).

Females Directors to 2010

Every year Hollywood watchers lament the dearth of female directors associated with big name films. Kathryn Bigelow has now hurdled these obstacles very adroitly with six Academy Award wins, including Best Director, for The Hurt Locker (2009) starring actor Jeremy Renner. I ...

The Pretty Hair at Jason Wu

We just watched Odile Gilbert (that's her in the white shirt) create the hairstyles backstage at Jason Wu. You know, the 1993 film featuring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in 1850s New Zealand, that involved many variations of homely buns and ...
From Academy Award winning writer/director Jane Campion comes an extraordinary film based on the true story of undying love between renowned poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw, The International) and his spirited muse Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish, Stop-Loss). In the wilds of ...
Set in early nineteenth century England, Bright Star depicts the relationship between fashion student Fanny Brawne and the great romantic poet John Keats (whose sonnets to Brawne-published posthumously-are the stuff of legend, one from which this film draws its title). Brawne did ...
Set in early nineteenth century England, Bright Star depicts the relationship between fashion student Fanny Brawne and the great romantic poet John Keats (whose sonnets to Brawne-published posthumously-are the stuff of legend, one from which this film draws its title). Brawne did ...