In anticipation of Top of the Lake: China Girl, Jane Campion will join us at the Film Society of Lincoln Center for a special onstage conversation spanning her entire career.

Following the series’ acclaimed premiere at Cannes this year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is pleased to present the first two episodes from the second installment of Campion and Gerard Lee’s crime series. Taking on a new case in Sydney, Elisabeth Moss reprises her Golden Globe–winning role as Detective Robin Griffin, alongside fresh characters played by Nicole Kidman and Gwendoline Christie.

Elisabeth Moss is a detective who investigates the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl in New Zealand in this thrilling, seven-episode television series, perhaps the toughest, wildest drama Campion has ever made.

The short films in this program, which span 1982 to 2007, reflect images, motifs, and themes that persist in Campion’s work, including her playing with genre and her abiding interest in the stories of women.

Based on the autobiography of Janet Frame, Campion’s clear-eyed, sprawling feature depicts the harrowing life of New Zealand’s most acclaimed author, who spent eight years hospitalized under a mistaken diagnosis of schizophrenia. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1990 Venice Film Festival.

Campion’s quietly tender love story is a devastating portrait of an artist beset by tragedy, focusing on the last few years of the tragic life of fledgling poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) as he embarks on a passionate but doomed romance with Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish).

Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel turn in brave performances in Campion’s hallucinatory comedy of the sexes. After falling under the sway of a cultish guru in India, Ruth (Winslet) is deceived by her parents to return to Australia so that she can be deprogrammed by a world-renowned “exit counselor” (Keitel).

After learning about the brutal murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, an English professor (Meg Ryan) begins an affair with one of the investigating police detectives (Mark Ruffalo) in Jane Campion’s adaptation of the novel by Susanna Moore, which renders the erotic thriller with a haunting, meditative gaze.

Jane Campion’s ravishing, Palme d’Or–winning breakthrough, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in Oscar-winning roles, returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration—and still feels startlingly alive.

Sumptuously photographed and exceedingly smart, Jane Campion’s interpretation of The Portrait of a Lady is a cinematic fever dream fascinated by the pictorial and sensuous forms of dominance within James’s text, and the inextricable bond between romantic love and violence.

This bleakly funny and profoundly unsettling film about dysfunctional sisters in Sydney, Australia, found Campion in full command of her descriptive, surrealist visual style and iconoclastic sense of humor.

A coming-of-age story told in reverse, Campion’s underseen first feature delicately renders femininity and adolescence through the depiction of two girls’ unraveling friendship.