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13 articles from 2009
In-Depth Interviews with Director Jane Campion and Paul Schneider for "Bright Star"
25 September 2009 11:29 AM, PDT | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Not to sound cliche but it was truly a delight meeting Jane Campion, one of the three women directors to be ever nominated for a Best Director Oscar (the other two were Lina Wertmuller in 1976 for "Seven Beauties" and Sofia Coppola for 2003's "Lost in Translation").
Borrowing from the great romantic poet, John Keats, the subject of the director's "Bright Star," interviewing Campion was a thing of beauty and will definitely be a joy forever.
Campion was smart, provocative, brilliant. She hinted on quitting making movies right after 2003's "In the Cut." That would have been a tragedy.
So thank you to my friends at Palm Springs International Film Society for making these interviews happened. Actor Paul Schneider, who perfected a Scottish accent to play Keats' confidante, Charles Armitage Brown, was also a pleasure to talk to.
To read my review of "Bright Star," click here.
Here's my interview with Campion. »
- Manny
tMF Talkback: Jane Campion's Bright Star 'not so stellar' says IndieWire - a fair analysis?
20 September 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
I rely heavily on INDIEWire when it comes to indie news for obvious reasons. Their Box Office reports are always insightful, up-to-date and worth a fair amount of time to look over and analyze. However, their latest report which focused on Jane Campion's latest movie - Bright Star - appeared to be unfair in their analysis of its Box office performance, say people related to the movie, in particular Bob Berney (who together with Bill Pohlad has bought Us rights to Jane Campion's Bright Star.)
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- - - One portion of the article which is considered the point of contention reads:
"Star"‘s opening does not fare well against Campion's other films. On 7, 2 and 6 screens respectively, "The Portrait of a Lady," "Holy Smoke" and "In The Cut" each averaged between $15,000 and $17,000, while "The Piano" debut to a whopping $37,854 per its four theaters back in November »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Talkback: Jane Campion's Bright Star 'not so stellar' says IndieWire - a fair analysis?
20 September 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
I rely heavily on INDIEWire when it comes to indie news for obvious reasons. Their Box Office reports are always insightful, up-to-date and worth a fair amount of time to look over and analyze. However, their latest report which focused on Jane Campion's latest movie - Bright Star - appeared to be unfair in their analysis of its Box office performance, say people related to the movie, in particular Bob Berney (who together with Bill Pohlad has bought Us rights to Jane Campion's Bright Star.)
- - -
- - - One portion of the article which is considered the point of contention reads:
"Star"‘s opening does not fare well against Campion's other films. On 7, 2 and 6 screens respectively, "The Portrait of a Lady," "Holy Smoke" and "In The Cut" each averaged between $15,000 and $17,000, while "The Piano" debut to a whopping $37,854 per its four theaters back in November »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Talkback: Jane Campion's Bright Star 'not so stellar' says IndieWire - a fair analysis?
20 September 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
I rely heavily on INDIEWire when it comes to indie news for obvious reasons. Their Box Office reports are always insightful, up-to-date and worth a fair amount of time to look over and analyze. However, their latest report which focused on Jane Campion's latest movie - Bright Star - appeared to be unfair in their analysis of its Box office performance, say people related to the movie, in particular Bob Berney (who together with Bill Pohlad has bought Us rights to Jane Campion's Bright Star.)
- - -
- - - One portion of the article which is considered the point of contention reads:
"Star"‘s opening does not fare well against Campion's other films. On 7, 2 and 6 screens respectively, "The Portrait of a Lady," "Holy Smoke" and "In The Cut" each averaged between $15,000 and $17,000, while "The Piano" debut to a whopping $37,854 per its four theaters back in November »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Talkback: Jane Campion's Bright Star 'not so stellar' says IndieWire - a fair analysis?
20 September 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
I rely heavily on INDIEWire when it comes to indie news for obvious reasons. Their Box Office reports are always insightful, up-to-date and worth a fair amount of time to look over and analyze. However, their latest report which focused on Jane Campion's latest movie - Bright Star - appeared to be unfair in their analysis of its Box office performance, say people related to the movie, in particular Bob Berney (who together with Bill Pohlad has bought Us rights to Jane Campion's Bright Star.)
- - -
- - - One portion of the article which is considered the point of contention reads:
"Star"‘s opening does not fare well against Campion's other films. On 7, 2 and 6 screens respectively, "The Portrait of a Lady," "Holy Smoke" and "In The Cut" each averaged between $15,000 and $17,000, while "The Piano" debut to a whopping $37,854 per its four theaters back in November »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
tMF Talkback: Jane Campion's Bright Star 'not so stellar' says IndieWire - a fair analysis?
20 September 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | The Movie Fanatic | See recent The Movie Fanatic news »
I rely heavily on INDIEWire when it comes to indie news for obvious reasons. Their Box Office reports are always insightful, up-to-date and worth a fair amount of time to look over and analyze. However, their latest report which focused on Jane Campion's latest movie - Bright Star - appeared to be unfair in their analysis of its Box office performance, say people related to the movie, in particular Bob Berney (who together with Bill Pohlad has bought Us rights to Jane Campion's Bright Star.)
- - -
- - - One portion of the article which is considered the point of contention reads:
"Star"‘s opening does not fare well against Campion's other films. On 7, 2 and 6 screens respectively, "The Portrait of a Lady," "Holy Smoke" and "In The Cut" each averaged between $15,000 and $17,000, while "The Piano" debut to a whopping $37,854 per its four theaters back in November »
- modelwatcher@gmail.com (Jed Medina)
Bright Star (2009)
19 September 2009 6:18 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Written and directed by Jane Campion
Featuring Abbie Cornish, Ben Winshaw, Paul Schneider, Kerry Fox
Jane Campion, we’ve missed you so. Her weird Australian/British/New Zealand movies that always have long boring stretches before some ungodly and violent act usually involving blood are so poignant. In the Cut, her last film, featured a full-frontal Meg Ryan and a decapitated Jennifer Jason Leigh. Campion’s Bright Star, a gothic romance about romantic poet John Keats and his relatively sexless but emotional affair with an 18-year-old girl-next-door named Fanny Brawne, isn’t as good as The Piano (no one’s fingers get cut off – but you can’t have everything) and is too long for the modern moron to appreciate. Still, you get languid death and depressing poems, which isn’t half bad...
Fanny Brawne (played by Abbie Cornish) is kind of an 1818 Sorority girl – fairly vapid, into fashion, and rich. »
- Superheidi
Movie Review: Bright Star (2009)
18 September 2009 12:26 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
Ben Whishaw and Abbie Cornish in Bright Star
Photo: Apparition Why do Fanny Brawne and John Keats love each other? They don't know and don't worry, Bright Star writer/director Jane Campion isn't interested in exploring the whys of their relationship as much as she is concerned with boring you stiff with a lifeless melodrama adapted from the private writings of Keats, his poems and Andrew Motion's biography on the poet. This is a love story beholden to exaggeration and so sappy you can't get out from underneath it. Of course, being a hit at the Cannes Film Festival and finding fans around the world already, I seem to be relatively alone in this opinion, but it's my opinion nonetheless. The film starts off perfectly fine by introducing us to Brawne, played by Abbie Cornish just as I would suspect Charlize Theron would have played the role at that age. »
- Brad Brevet
Review: Bright Star
17 September 2009 8:55 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
On the surface, Bright Star marks a rather startling departure for Jane Campion, the Oscar winning writer-director best known for unique, explicit explorations of human sexuality like The Piano and In the Cut. It’s a PG rated, 19th century set affair and the nudity is restricted to the occasional bared leg. But anyone familiar with the passionate, free-flowing verse of John Keats (Ben Whishaw) will recognize that Campion’s returned again to her most familiar subject in depicting the poet’s romance with neighbor Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). It’s a film that sacrifices physical sensuality for that found in the composition of a couplet, in words like these from the sonnet Keats wrote from which the film derives its name: “Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, to feel forever its soft fall and swell, awake forever in a sweet unrest.” The picture trades in restraint, as any unfolding in high society 19th century England »
- Robert Levin
Toronto 2009: Jane Campion on Oscars, Abbie Cornish, and why there aren't more women behind the camera
16 September 2009 9:09 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Jane Campion, we’ve missed you! It’s been six long years since the director of The Piano, Portrait of a Lady, and Angel at My Table (right, with actor Ben Wishaw) has made a feature, and even longer since her name has popped up as a contender in the Oscar race. (She won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1994 for The Piano and remains one of just three women to be nominated for Best Director.) But the New Zealand-born filmmaker is back in top creative form with Bright Star, a lyrical film about the passionate and ultimately tragic romance of poet John Keats and his great love, Fanny Brawne. The movie is in theaters this Friday. I had the honor of talking with Campion during the Toronto film festival, where Bright Star enjoyed a loving reception. Here are some highlights. On why she’s been absent from feature filmmaking »
- Missy Schwartz
Exclusive: Abbie Cornish and Ben Winshaw in 'Bright Star'
28 August 2009 2:43 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Jane Campion's "Bright Star" is one of the more intriguing new releases this September. The debut of new distributor Apparition, "Bright Star" premiered last May at the Cannes Film Festival to positive notices, especially for the performances of stars Abbie Cornish and Ben Winshaw. The picture also appears to be a comeback for Campion after the Oscar-winning director of "The Piano" stumbled with 2003's "In the Cut."Centered on the last days of noted poet John Keats (Winshaw), "Bright Star" chronicles his romance with Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish) which was the inspiration for some of his most acclaimed work. "Bright Star"... »
Jane Campion's 'Bright Star' and Marina de Van's 'Ne me retourne pas' at Cannes 2009
23 April 2009 5:45 PM, PDT | Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news »
Bright Star, Jane Campion's latest movie (she directed In The Cut and The Piano), is in the competition at the Cannes 2009 Film Festival. The gothic romance is based on the three-year relationship between 19th century Romantic poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25.
Out of competition is Marina de Van's latest psychodrama (she directed the gory In My Skin) about eerie physical experiences called Ne te retourne pas starring Monica Belluci and Sophie Marceau...
read more »
- Superheidi
We Can't Wait #5 Bright Star
16 February 2009 6:39 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Directed by Jane Campion
Starring Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw. Co-starring: Paul Schneider, Thomas Sangster, Samuel Barnett and Kerry Fox
Synopsis A biopic with a romantic focus, it tells the story of the doomed love affair between Fannie Brown and the poet John Keats who died at only 25 by way of period cinema's most fearsome killer: tuberculosis. Cough once and you're dead by the end of the picture.
Brought to you by a merciful god for Jane Campion is back.
Expected release date god only knows
Nathaniel: I've just noticed that this list is rather filled with auteurs who are notoriously slow about actually making movies and Campion fits that bill though we didn't expect she would at first. After the international success of her masterpiece The Piano sixteen long years ago, it seemed like we'd be spending a lot of time wrestling with her inimitable voice and forceful humanist vision. »
- NATHANIEL R
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