Jane Campion: Her Way

ACMI is celebrating Oscar-winning director Jane Campion with this impressive retrospective.
Sarah Ward
April 24, 2023

Overview

Only one female filmmaker has ever been nominated for the Best Director Oscar twice. That woman: Jane Campion. The New Zealand talent won the coveted prize in 2022, for the phenomenal The Power of the Dog — and, while her exquisite revisionist western was the absolute best movie of 2021, it's not the only highlight on her resume.

Campion's filmography is packed with must-sees, and see them you must — on the big screen at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. In partnership with the 2023 Sydney Film Festival, the venue is showing Jane Campion: Her Way, a lineup that will step through the New Zealand director and screenwriter's career.

Kirsty Griffin/Netflix

On the bill: The Power of the Dog, because watching it via streaming is nowhere near the best way to revel in its wonders; The Piano, the 1993 Oscar-winner that nabbed Campion her first Best Director nomination; In the Cut, a tremendous erotic thriller starring Meg Ryan; and Holy Smoke, with Kate Winslet starring opposite Harvey Keitel.

There's also everything from 1986's Two Friends, 1989's Sweetie and 1990's An Angel at My Table through to 1996's Nicole Kidman-starring The Portrait of a Lady and 2009's Bright Star about poet John Keats and his romance with Fanny Brawne.

The program runs from Thursday, June 15–Sunday, July 2, and also features a showing of the new documentary Jane Campion, The Cinema Woman.

Top image: Kirsty Griffin/Netflix.

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