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Criterion Adds Jane Campion’s ‘The Piano,’ Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘The Celebration & More For January

October 15, 2021 4:47 pm

We're not even there yet, but The Criterion Collection is planning on ringing in 2022 with a bang and doing so by celebrating some amazingly inventive women filmmakers. The crown jewel of their just-released J...

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Criterion Announces First Slate Of 4K UHD Releases Featuring ‘Citizen Kane,’ ‘Mulholland Drive,’ ‘Menace II Society’ & More

Charles Barfield

August 11, 2021 12:52 pm

News

Almost 40 years ago, “Citizen Kane” became the first Criterion Collection release on LaserDisc. (I assume the furious clicking sound I now hear is from many millennials and Zoomers googling what the hell Laser...

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Filmmaker Jane Campion Says We Are At The End Of “One Of The More Ferocious Patriarchal Periods Of Our Time”

Charles Barfield

May 21, 2018 12:55 pm

News

Jane Campion is a one-of-a-kind filmmaker. That’s not some hyperbolic statement, either. Literally, Campion holds a distinction that no other female director does. She has actually walked away with the Palme d’...

Jane Campion Talks Her Career and ‘Top Of The Lake: China Girl’

Martine Olivier

September 11, 2017 4:10 pm

Interviews, News

Jane Campion has helped to pave the way for women in her field since the early 1980s. As much as it would be nice to overlook Campion’s gender, the industry appeared both unable and unwilling to do so in the pa...

Essentials: The Films Of Jane Campion

The Playlist Staff

September 11, 2017 1:20 pm

Features, News

What can we say about Jane Campion that we didn’t already say last week in lauding the venerable filmmaker’s feminist history? Simply put, the New Zealander is one of the greatest filmmakers in the world. Th...

The Feminist History Of Jane Campion, From ‘Sweetie’ To ‘Top Of The Lake’

Lena Wilson

September 7, 2017 3:33 pm

News

Starting tomorrow, The Film Society of Lincoln Center will honor Jane Campion with a retrospective, "Jane Campion’s Own Stories," including an evening with the filmmaker herself. This is just one more accolade ...

The 10 Best Films Of 1993

Oliver Lyttelton

March 23, 2017 2:08 pm

Features, News

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Our two-week-long look at the best films of the 1990s, inspired by the wave of '90s nostalgia in theaters at the minute like this week’s “Power Rangers,” has so far tackled the 10 best movies of 1990, 1991 and ...

RIP Miramax: The 10 Best Films Of Their Era

Rodrigo Perez

January 29, 2010 2:39 pm

News

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So yesterday, you probably heard that the final nail was rammed into the slow-closing coffin of Miramax. Disney, the parent company had enough of their diminishing returns in the last few months and lowered the...

U.S. Rights To Jane Campion’s ‘Bright Star’ Snatched Up Before Cannes Premiere

Rodrigo Perez

May 12, 2009 6:12 pm

News

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We've been wondering if Jane Campion's "Bright Star" could potentially be a return to form.For one it's a return to creating a period piece -- her strongest domain and one she hasn't revisited since 1996 -- and...

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