The Piano

The Piano: Special Edition - DVD Review Note-perfect performances (including an 11-year-old Anna Paquin as Hunter's daughter) combine with bewitching visuals and Michael Nyman's hypnotic score to produce a film of rare beauty - but there's obsession, violence and eroticism beneath the beguiling surface. ... Full Review

soon becomes a brooding romantic melodrama of almost classical grandeur.....Composed by Michael Nyman (and performed by Hunter herself), the film's lush, rippling, New Age-on-the-moors soundtrack is more than merely beautiful;....In The Piano (which shared the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival), Holly Hunter has never looked less glamorous or more beautiful..... ... Full Review

Jane Campion's The Piano is an excellent movie, despite all the usually suspect hype. While her first two movies were both excellent, Campion directs The Piano with an authority that wasn't quite there previously. ... Full Review

Writer/director Jane Campion's The Piano is a poetic film, rich with metaphor, recurring visual motifs, and a masterful score by Michael Nyman. For those with the patience, this is a rewarding film filled with great performances. ... Full Review

The Piano" is dark, sublime music, and after it's over, you won't be able to get it out of your head. Their blood runs with sadness, and it is out of this sexual despair that Campion forges her melancholy poetry. ... Full Review

(Cert PG; 119 mins) The Piano has been a tough act to follow for New Zealand film-maker Jane Campion. It is 16 years since that Oscar-winning triumph and none of her subsequent work has come close to matching its haunting... ... Full Article

"The beginning of your poem has something very perfect," says Keats's lover, Fanny Brawne, of his Endymion - before complaining that the rest of it isn't nearly as good. ... Full Article

Here's a shocking fact: in the 80-year history of the Oscars, only three women have been nominated in the Best Director category. Back in 1977, Lina Wertm?ller was the first to be given the nod, for Seven Beauties; then, in... ... Full Article

C liff Curtis loves his character's name. The New Zealand native plays Reuben "Rabbit" Palchuk on the NBC drama "Trauma," Monday at 9 p.m. on WHDH (Ch. 7). ... Full Article

CHICAGO - "Bright Star" - a bright prospect in this coming awards season - charts the meeting, attraction and parting of Fanny Brawne and her early 19th Century North London neighbor, poet John Keats. ... Full Article

TORONTO - Jane Campion , the director of "The Piano," returns behind the camera with "Bright Star," a passionate and intimate look at the romantic relationship between the poet John Keats and Fanny Brawn. ... Full Article