Jane Campion`s Own Stories
Sponsored by SundanceTV
Since her indelible 1989 debut feature Sweetie, New Zealand–born Jane Campion has been one of the most distinctive talents in world cinema. The first woman awarded the Palme d‘Or at Cannes—for her Oscar-winning 1993 feature The Piano—Campion makes films that reflect a highly personal and idiosyncratic style, influenced by her background in anthropology and painting, and notable for their visual inventiveness, dark sense of humor, and complex depictions of women and sexuality. For four decades now, Campion has moved freely across genres—family melodrama, gothic romance, literary adaptation, farce, suspense-thriller—and also between cinema and television. This September, the Film Society marks the U.S. premiere of the eagerly awaited series Top of the Lake: China Girl (airing on Sundance TV in September) with a retrospective survey of Campion’s rich and revelatory body of work, with the director in person for select screenings.
Organized by Dennis Lim and Tyler Wilson
Acknowledgments:
SundanceTV; See-Saw Films; BBC Worldwide (TBC); Australian Film, Television and Radio School; National Film & Sound Archive of Australia; Chicago Film Society; Yale Film Study Center; Kate Richter
An Evening with Jane Campion
Q&A with Jane Campion
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.Top of the Lake: China Girl (Episodes 1 & 2)
Q&A with Jane Campion, Gerard Lee, Ariel Kleiman, and Alice Englert
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.Top of the Lake
Free Screening
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.Jane Campion’s Shorts: 1982-2007
An Angel at My Table
Bright Star
Holy Smoke
In the Cut
The Piano
The Portrait of a Lady
Free screening • Complimentary Popcorn & Soda • Pre-Screening Reception
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.Sweetie
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