Jane Campion's The Piano struck a deep chord (if you'll excuse the expression) with audiences in 1993, who were mesmerised by the film's rich, dreamlike imagery. It is the story of a Scottish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter), who has been mute since age 6 because she simply chose not to speak. Ada travels with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano to a remote spot on the coast of New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a farmer (Sam Neill). She gives piano lessons to a gruff neighbor (Harvey Keitel) who has Maori tattoos on his face, and, well, things develop from there. The picture takes on a powerful dream logic that simply defies synopsis. It's a breathtakingly beautiful and original achievement from Campion, a unique stylist. The Piano won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscars for Hunt, Paquin and Campion's screenplay. --Jim Emerson
Ada her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed neighbour. She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one black key for a lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper in
Ada her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings her husband refuses to transport the piano and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed neighbour. She may earn her piano back if she allows him to do certain things while she plays; one black key for a lesson. The arrangement draws all three deeper into a complex emotional sexual bond remarkable for its nave passion and frightening disregard for limits... Winner of 3 Oscars for Best Screenplay (Jane Campion) Best Actress (Holly Hunter) and Best Suporting Actress (Anna Paquin) and 11 awards from the Australian Film Institiute.
Meg Ryan plays a lonely New York woman who discovers the darker side of passion after becoming involved with a tough homicide detective who is investigating a series of murders in her neighborhood.
Jane Campion's The Piano struck a deep chord (if you'll excuse the expression) with audiences in 1993, who were mesmerised by the film's rich, dreamlike imagery. It is the story of a Scottish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter), who has been mute since age 6 because she simply chose not to speak. Ada travels with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano to a remote spot on the coast of New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a farmer (Sam Neill). She gives piano lessons to a gruff neighbor (Harvey Keitel) who has Maori tattoos on his face, and, well, things develop from there. The picture takes on a powerful dream logic that simply defies synopsis. It's a breathtakingly beautiful and original achievement from Campion, a unique stylist. The Piano won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscars for Hunt, Paquin and Campion's screenplay. --Jim Emerson
A beautiful woman goes backpacking in India in search of adventure but finds a guru with more than enlightenment on his mind.
A 12 year old girl walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a South Island lake in New Zealand. She is five months pregnant and won't say who the father is. Then she disappears. Robin Griffin is a gutsy but inexperienced detective called in to investigate. But as Robin becomes more and more obsessed with the search for Tui she slowly begins to realise that finding Tui is tantamount to finding herself - a self she has kept well hidden. Set against one of the most amazing and untouched landscapes left on the planet Top of the Lake is a powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness where the dream of paradise attracts it dark twin the fall.
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion.
THE EMMY® AND GOLDEN GLOBE®-WINNING CRIME SERIES RETURNS. Top of the Lake: China Girl is a crime mystery story that finds Detective Robin Griffin recently returned to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin discovers China Girl' didn't die alone. Robin looks to the investigation to restore herself, but her problems are personal. Haunted by a daughter given up at birth, Robin desperately wants to find her, yet dreads revealing the truth of her conception. But her search to discover China Girl's' identity will take her into the city's darkest recesses and closer than she could have imagined to the secrets of her own heart. SPECIAL FEATURES: MAKING SEASON 2 SHOOTING SYDNEY FINALE ON BONDI BEACH THE SUPER DETECTIVE RETURNS INTRODUCING MIRANDA FEATURETTE WITH DIRECTORS
Top of the Lake Twelve-year-old Tui Mitcham, daughter of the local drug lord, is pulled from the freezing waters of an alpine lake in New Zealand. She is discovered to be pregnant and won't say who the father is. Then she disappears. Robin Griffin is the straight-talking detective experienced in child protection who is called in to investigate. But as Robin becomes more and more obsessed with the search for Tui, she begins to realise that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself a self she has kept well-hidden. From Academy Award® winning writer/director Jane Campion and the Academy Award® winning producers of The King's Speech, Top of the Lake is a powerful and haunting mystery starring Elisabeth Moss, David Wenham, Peter Mullan, Thomas M. Wright and Academy Award® winner Holly Hunter. Set against a vast, varied terrain - moody, pure and remote - Top of the Lake is a story about our search for happiness, where the dream of paradise attracts its dark twin, the fall. SPECIAL FEATURES: FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE' BEHIND THE SCENES CAST AND CREW INTERVIEWS Top of the Lake: China Girl THE EMMY® AND GOLDEN GLOBE®-WINNING CRIME SERIES RETURNS. Top of the Lake: China Girl is a crime mystery story that finds Detective Robin Griffin recently returned to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin discovers China Girl' didn't die alone. Robin looks to the investigation to restore herself, but her problems are personal. Haunted by a daughter given up at birth, Robin desperately wants to find her, yet dreads revealing the truth of her conception. But her search to discover China Girl's' identity will take her into the city's darkest recesses and closer than she could have imagined to the secrets of her own heart. SPECIAL FEATURES: MAKING SEASON 2 SHOOTING SYDNEY FINALE ON BONDI BEACH THE SUPER DETECTIVE RETURNS INTRODUCING MIRANDA FEATURETTE WITH DIRECTORS
Originally produced as a three-part miniseries for New Zealand television, this extraordinary film is based on the life of Janet Frame, an introverted, sensitive girl who was later misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and spent eight years in a psychiatric hospital. She would later become one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets and novelists, publishing her first books while she was still confined to a mental ward. She had endured over 200 electroshock treatments and had almost been lobotomized by careless physicians who took no time to understand that she was merely awkward and shy and suffered from little more than routine depression. From a solid screenplayby Laura Jones, director Jane Campion (The Piano) tells this story without soapy melodrama but rather as anexploration of a challenged creative spirit--a journey into a writer's mind, exploring the power of imagination as a mechanism of survival and self-defense. Three talented actors play Janet Frame at different ages throughout the film, with Kerry Fox giving a powerful performance as the young-adult Janet, whose own skill and creative tenacity would prove to be her salvation. Frightening, harrowing and ultimately a source of humanistic enlightenment, An Angel at My Table (titled after Frame's autobiography) is a film you won't soon forget.--Jeff Shannon
Nicole Kidman is Isabel Archer a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her headstrong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey in an Oscar-nominated performance) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). Adapted from the novel by Henry James.
THE EMMY® AND GOLDEN GLOBE®-WINNING CRIME SERIES RETURNS. Top of the Lake: China Girl is a crime mystery story that finds Detective Robin Griffin recently returned to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin discovers China Girl' didn't die alone. Robin looks to the investigation to restore herself, but her problems are personal. Haunted by a daughter given up at birth, Robin desperately wants to find her, yet dreads revealing the truth of her conception. But her search to discover China Girl's' identity will take her into the city's darkest recesses and closer than she could have imagined to the secrets of her own heart. SPECIAL FEATURES: MAKING SEASON 2 SHOOTING SYDNEY FINALE ON BONDI BEACH THE SUPER DETECTIVE RETURNS INTRODUCING MIRANDA FEATURETTE WITH DIRECTORS
JANE CAMPION returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape-pulsating with both freedom and menace- that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog. Set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow (The Virgin Suicides' KIRSTEN DUNST) and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son (The Road's KODI SMIT-MCPHEE) move in with her gentle new husband (Friday Night Lights' JESSE PLEMONS), a tense battle of wills plays out between them and his brutish brother (Doctor Strange' BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH), whose frightening volatility conceals a secret torment, and whose capacity for tenderness, once reawakened, may offer him redemption or destruction. Campion, who won an Academy Award for her direction here, charts the repressed desire and psychic violence coursing among these characters with the mesmerizing control of a master at the height of her powers. Product Features 4K digital master, approved by director Jane Campion, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack Interview with Campion about the making of the film Programme featuring interviews with members of the cast and crew and behind-the-scenes footage captured on location in New Zealand Interview with Campion and composer Jonny Greenwood about the film's score Conversation among Campion, director of photography Ari Wegner, actor Kirsten Dunst, and producer Tanya Seghatchian, moderated by filmmaker Tamara Jenkins New interview with novelist Annie Proulx Trailer English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing English descriptive audio PLUS: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin
Nicole Kidman is Isabel Archer a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her headstrong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey in an Oscar-nominated performance) and the devious Gilbert Osmond (John Malkovich). Adapted from the novel by Henry James.
A 12 year old girl walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a South Island lake in New Zealand. She is five months pregnant and won't say who the father is. Then she disappears. Robin Griffin is a gutsy but inexperienced detective called in to investigate. But as Robin becomes more and more obsessed with the search for Tui she slowly begins to realise that finding Tui is tantamount to finding herself - a self she has kept well hidden. Available in beautiful high definition and set against one of the most amazing and untouched landscapes left on the planet Top of the Lake is a powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness where the dream of paradise attracts it dark twin the fall.
Top of the Lake Twelve-year-old Tui Mitcham, daughter of the local drug lord, is pulled from the freezing waters of an alpine lake in New Zealand. She is discovered to be pregnant and won't say who the father is. Then she disappears. Robin Griffin is the straight-talking detective experienced in child protection who is called in to investigate. But as Robin becomes more and more obsessed with the search for Tui, she begins to realise that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself a self she has kept well-hidden. From Academy Award® winning writer/director Jane Campion and the Academy Award® winning producers of The King's Speech, Top of the Lake is a powerful and haunting mystery starring Elisabeth Moss, David Wenham, Peter Mullan, Thomas M. Wright and Academy Award® winner Holly Hunter. Set against a vast, varied terrain - moody, pure and remote - Top of the Lake is a story about our search for happiness, where the dream of paradise attracts its dark twin, the fall. SPECIAL FEATURES: FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE' BEHIND THE SCENES CAST AND CREW INTERVIEWS Top of the Lake: China Girl THE EMMY® AND GOLDEN GLOBE®-WINNING CRIME SERIES RETURNS. Top of the Lake: China Girl is a crime mystery story that finds Detective Robin Griffin recently returned to Sydney and trying to rebuild her life. When the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach, there appears little hope of finding the killer, until Robin discovers China Girl' didn't die alone. Robin looks to the investigation to restore herself, but her problems are personal. Haunted by a daughter given up at birth, Robin desperately wants to find her, yet dreads revealing the truth of her conception. But her search to discover China Girl's' identity will take her into the city's darkest recesses and closer than she could have imagined to the secrets of her own heart. SPECIAL FEATURES: MAKING SEASON 2 SHOOTING SYDNEY FINALE ON BONDI BEACH THE SUPER DETECTIVE RETURNS INTRODUCING MIRANDA FEATURETTE WITH DIRECTORS
A beautiful woman goes backpacking in India in search of adventure but finds a guru with more than enlightenment on his mind.
Holy Smoke: An Australian family try to rescue their daughter Ruth who has embraced the teachings of an Indian guru called Baba. They enlist the help of an American Counsellor who specialises in reconditioning the minds of members of religious cults. Hideous Kinky In the early 70's Julia escapes grey London and a failed relationship with her two daughters aged six and eight and heading to Morocco in search of adventure. The two girls enjoy the colour and life of Marrakech but the city has less to offer a pennilesss mum. It's only when Julia meets the charming Bilal that her life is transformed.
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