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The Piano

August 2023

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    John Singleton’s era-defining gangster classic is still a triumph, while there’s loads of pulpy pleasure to be had in this stark warning about what happens when large mammals gets off their gourd on gak

November 2021

  • Jane Campion photographed by Grant Matthews.

    Jane Campion: ‘Film-making set me free… it was as if I had found myself’

    The trailblazing director on how #MeToo inspired her first feature in more than a decade, the revisionist western The Power of the Dog

August 2019

  • ‘I am absolutely a control freak’: Anna Paquin.

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    Anna Paquin: ‘I am absolutely a control freak. It’s in my DNA’

    The actor, 37, on breaking Oscar protocol, loving film-set pranks, and being a backseat producer even as a child

July 2019

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    The Q&A
    Anna Paquin: ‘My Oscar? It’s not the highlight of my career’

    The actor on Megan Rapinoe, aggressive relaxation, and the key to The Piano’s success

June 2018

  • Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in The Piano.

    The Piano review – Jane Campion's drama still hits all the right notes

    Rereleased after 25 years, this literary work about a mute woman in 19th-century New Zealand remains full of extraordinary images and enigmas

May 2018

  • Jane Campion by Sally Bongers

    The G2 interview
    Jane Campion: ‘Capitalism is such a macho force. I felt run over’

    One of the world’s most unconventional film-makers, Jane Campion talks about the end of the patriarchy, doing away with decorum, and how losing her baby son changed her forever

March 2018

  • A Waka Odyssey NZ Festival Opening, 2018

    New Zealand festival: 'We all belong. We’re all part of one big canoe'

    In Wellington a fleet of Māori waka open the festivities, which also feature a ballet take on The Piano and a staging of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises

July 2017

  • Jane Campion

    Jane Campion: ‘The clever people used to do film. Now they do TV’

    From Sweetie to The Piano, she has made some of cinema’s strangest, strongest films. So where does her outsider streak come from?

March 2016

  • The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute piano player and her daughter. The Piano was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin, in her first acting role.

    The Piano's piano sells for just NZ$1,000 at auction

    Non-playable prop from Jane Campion’s multiple Oscar-winning 1993 film was used in the movie’s famous beach scene

February 2016

  • Holly Hunter (Ada) and Anna Paquin as Ada’s daughter

    Rewatching classic Australian films
    The Piano rewatched – re-examining the erotic via sexually charged music lessons

    Jane Campion became the first female director to win the Cannes’ prestigious Palme d’Or with her extraordinary brooding drama of a mute piano player

July 2014

  • classic dvd the piano

    Philip French's classic DVD
    The Piano – Philip French on Jane Campion's haunting New Zealand period drama

    Jane Campion's tale of a mute Scottish woman and her daughter cast ashore in 19th-century New Zealand is easily her best work, writes Philip French

May 2014

  • Jane Campion

    Jane Campion: 'Life isn't a career'

    After becoming the first female Palme d'Or winner, Jane Campion looked ready to usher in a new era of feminist cinema – but tragedy intervened. As she returns to chair Cannes, she tells Andrew Pulver about surviving as a woman director

July 2013

  • Jane Campion

    Jane Campion wanted a bleaker ending for The Piano

    Ben Child: The director has revealed she wanted the character of Ada to drown in the sea after she follows her piano overboard

July 2012

  • The Piano: Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin

    How we made
    How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano

    'Jane locked me in a hotel room with a piano and said she wouldn't let me out until I'd finished'

March 2010

  • Susanna White

    The film that changed my life
    Susanna White, film director

    Susanna White, director of the new Nanny McPhee film, says Jane Campion's The Piano inspired her to make movies
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