Word: campion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jane Campion's Piano makes passionate music...
More than 700 people crowded into the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government to watch the show "Larry King Live," according to Forum Director Heather P. Campion...
...when Hollywood filmmakers have all but forgotten how to put a story on- screen, directors from around the world -- and especially on the Pacific continents -- have watched and remembered. Let Hollywood send its top stars to Cannes, Chen and Campion and Wenders might be saying. We'll send the best movies...
Thus two foreign entries were the critics' darlings and front runners for the Palme d'Or. Jane Campion's The Piano, from Australia, and Chen Kaige's Farewell to My Concubine, a co-production of China and Hong Kong, are very different types of films -- the first an intimate romance, the second a sprawling panorama -- but both are prime exemplars of the qualities Hollywood once monopolized: glamour and intensity, powerful star performances, the pleasures of narrative. Campion and Chen, imagemakers of voluptuous intelligence, have found stories to suit those images...
...George Baines (Harvey Keitel), and in another plaintive transaction Baines agrees to sell the piano back to Ada, one key at a time, for increasingly audacious amorous favors. This uncorseted Brontean plot runs the gauntlet through variations -- some familiar, a few astonishing -- on the theme of possessive passion, and Campion ornaments her fable with film effects that are at once surreal and true to the characters and their time. If The Piano is not quite the culmination of a century of cinema art that its most fervent Cannes admirers suggest, it is surely a delicate, rending achievement...