One thing you will discover if you dig a little deeper on some of the most interesting flicks to have come out of Australia in the last 20 years is the recurrence of one name: Jan Chapman.
Diane Tucker | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment
The situation for women who want to make movies is grim. Despite the fact that film schools graduate as many women as men, just 4% of Hollywood directors are women.
Dan Persons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
The film, in short, is sweet, sad, and moving but with Campion's astringent edge keeping the proceedings from lapsing into sentimentality. And that makes all the difference.
Regina Weinreich | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
Given the emotion of the love story, Keats with his Fanny Brawne, the movie is chaste, with a PG rating; no bodies writhing suggestively, and yet the screen quivers with repressed longing.
Marshall Fine | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment
Campion's film Bright Star is about the love of beauty -- particularly the ability of poetry to move the soul -- and about longing.
Erica Abeel | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment
My favorite from women filmmakers so far is Campion's Bright Star, a cinematic tone poem about the love between poet John Keats and girl next door Fanny Brawne.
Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment
The highly-anticipated John Keats bio-pic "Bright Star" had its US premiere in New York Monday night. Joining director Jane Campion were the film'...
Karin Badt | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment
Fish Tank tells the story of an alienated adolescent girl fighting her way to have an identity with a mother who hates her and a peer group which shuns her.
Paul Katz | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment
The women's movement used to have a kind of steam that I think has gone out of it. We have to keep talking about change and women's rights, not only here but all around the world.
Karin Badt | Posted 06.19.2009 | Entertainment
Fanny lies alone on her bed with a white gauze curtain billowing, as her legs, slightly parted, tremble under her frock.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.15.2009 | Entertainment
(AP Article, Huffington Post slideshow) CANNES, France - Jane Campion figured the best way to get modern audiences to love John Keats was to present ...
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment