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...Jane Campion's Piano makes passionate music...
This movie can't be that good -- it's won too many prizes. The Piano has been saddled with a Cannes Palme d'Or and 11 Australian Film Institute awards. For New Zealand writer-director Jane Campion, the film marks a triumph of dazzling movie art and canny show-biz heart. It's that good...
...Piano is Campion's coming of age -- a delivery on the promise of her first two features. Sweetie (1989), about the devastating effect a disturbed young woman has on her family, was bitter medicine; the movie double-dared its audience to find sympathy in its dour or manic characters. In An Angel at My Table (1990), a three-part mini-series based on the biographies of Australian novelist Janet Frame, Campion located her elliptical, microcosmic style. But % this lovely film lost its way before its climax, and before it could find a wider audience...
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...