Jane Campion

Bright Star review Bright Star is the best film Jane Campion, director of Oscar winner The Piano, has ever made. Jane Campion; Ben Whishaw; Abbie Cornish; Rating: * * * * In truth, there were many people who thought that Jane Campion's...

In this article: Ben Whishaw, Bright Star, John Keats, Abbie Cornish, Oscar, Charles Armitage Brown, and Kerry Fox

...6, 2009 Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in Bright Star After a six-year absence, Oscar-winning director Jane Campion triumphantly returns with her finest film since The Piano. Like that, it's a period love story, yet despite being set...

In this article: Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, John Keats, Oscar, Blackadder, and The Piano

...three other leading female film-makers discuss the view from the director's chair Jane Campion remains the only female director to win the Cannes Palme d'Or Here's a shocking fact: in the 80-year history of the Oscars, only three women have...

In this article: Oscar, The Piano, Penny Woolcock, Bright Star, Jennifer's Body, An Education, Lone Scherfig, Karyn Kusama, and Carey Mulligan

...a wife and children denied him lasting happiness with a woman who was every bit his equal. Campion plays out the heartbreak against the backdrop of Regency-period London, conjuring some arresting imagery, such as a young woman walking...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Abbie Cornish, Oscar, Charles Brown, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, and London

...fearing it would compound his unhappiness. Their love is the subject of a new film called Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion, the New Zealand director who won an Oscar in 1994 for The Piano. The title, taken from a poem Keats wrote for...

In this article: John Keats, Bright Star, Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Suicide, and Oscar

...hopes this year are pinned on her period romance Bright Star. Campion isn't the only one of the 6000 or so academy members taken aback by the switch, which was unveiled in June. "I think it dilutes the exclusivity of it," said actor Willem...

In this article: Oscar, Capitalism, Goat, Poughkeepsie Journal, DVD, Bright Star, Bloomingdale's, and Ewan McGregor

Only 29, he's already been this decade's most lauded Hamlet, played screen versions of Bob Dylan and Keith Richards that make the real deals pale by comparison and is now Oscar-nominated director Jane Campion's favourite muse. It...

In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Hamlet, Bright Star, Oscar, Charles Brown, Hamlet, and I'm Not There