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Film Studies 120. Great Directors. Jane Campion. JANE CAMPION. Jane Campion is Australasia's leading auteur director: Campion is New Zealand-born but Australian-trained. She is one of the most successful female directors in the world: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Great DirectorsFilm Studies 120
Jane Campion
JANE CAMPION
Jane Campion is Australasia's leading auteur director: Campion is New Zealand-born but
Australian-trained. She is one of the most successful
female directors in the world: She is the third woman ever to be
nominated best director for an Academy Award.
JANE CAMPION
Campion is devoted to the cause of developing female talent in the film industry. I read a New York Times piece recently
which said something like 6% of projects coming out of Hollywood are female-directed,” she says, her voice lowered. “That’s just evil. We need to get in the troops and fight it. We can’t stand back any longer.
JANE CAMPION
Campion’s films depict the lives of women who are in some way outside of society's mainstream, exploring what makes these women different, and the repercussions of their refusal to conform.
JANE CAMPION
Jane Campion has made seven feature films to date. Sweetie (1989) An Angel at My Table (1990) — based on the
autobiography of Janet Frame The Piano (1993) The Portrait of a Lady (1996) — based on the
novel by Henry James Holy Smoke! (1999) In the Cut (2003) — based on the novel by Susanna
Moore Bright Star (2009)
JANE CAMPION Sweetie (1989)
Dawn (nicknamed Sweetie) and Kay
JANE CAMPION An Angel at My Table (1990)
Janet
JANE CAMPION The Piano (1993)
Ada and Flora
JANE CAMPION The Portrait of a Lady (1996)
Isabel
JANE CAMPION Holy Smoke! (1999)
Ruth
JANE CAMPION In the Cut (2003)
Frannie
JANE CAMPION Bright Star (2009)
Frances “Fanny”
JANE CAMPION
Jane Campion:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRHh72YPF4k
Jane Campion:
Interview for Bright Star
JANE CAMPION
Debate has characterized the reception of Campion's films since the premiere of her first feature Sweetie at Cannes in 1989, where it was greeted with boos and hisses. Sweetie has since been reclaimed as a
hallmark of Campion's iconoclastic style, with its black humor, striking visual design (in terms of color and shot composition) and its compelling look at dysfunctional suburban family life.
Sweetie (1989)
JANE CAMPION
Sweetie “focuses on the hazardous relationship between the buttoned-down, superstitious Kay and her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, "Sweetie"—and by extension, their entire family’s profoundly rotten roots. A feast of colorful photography and captivating, idiosyncratic characters, Sweetie heralded the emergence of this gifted director as well as the breakthrough of Australian cinema, which would take international film by storm in the nineties.”
The Criterion Collection
Sweetie (1989)
JANE CAMPION
Thin and shy Kay works in a factory and lives a dull existence with her boyfriend Louis. One day, her sister Dawn arrives with her so-called manager, Bob. Nicknamed Sweetie, Dawn is everything Kay is not: lively, impulsive, and overweight. Kay is consumed with phobias, while Sweetie hangs on to her unrealistic dreams of show business. Meanwhile, their parents, Gordon and Flo, are involved in a ‘strange’ separation. Kay, Louis, and Gordon trick Sweetie so they can visit Flo at a ranch in the Australian outback. Everyone gets together back at the family home where Sweetie exposes the psychological realities of the situation.
Sweetie (1989): Synopsis
JANE CAMPION
CLIPS: Sweetie (1989) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evje1v19fpE&feature
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