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1889 Clifton Webb , reportedly as out as an actor could be back in the day but Oscar never gave him their top prize.

Bright Star -- It is some kind of tragedy that so few filmmakers in the history of movies have been women.

In her book Bluebeard's Legacy: Death and Secrets from Bartok to Hitchcock, Victoria Anderson quotes a brief exchange from Jane Campion's film In the Cut.

Comox Valley Art Gallery in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival, is happy to announce a special screening of Jane Campion's Bright Star, at the Rialto, Sunday November 15th 1 pm.

Polar bears cover their noses before they pounce on a seal. How do polar bears know their noses are black? Did they look in the water one day, see their reflection and say, "Man, I'd be invisible if it wasn't for that thing." AICN-DOWNUNDER The other day, someone asked me if I'd seen John August's THE NINES.

Here's a shocking fact: in the 80-year history of the Oscars, only three women have been nominated in the Best Director category.

After the people of Flintshire and Wrexham backed the BBC's decision to allow BNP leader Nick Griffin on the political programme Question Time, today we look at 10 more controversial TV appearances.

The New Zealand-born director of The Piano talks to Peter Conrad about her forthcoming film, Bright Star, a study of John Keats's final days Sunday, 18 October 2009 Publicising her new film Bright Star in Cannes earlier this year, Jane Campion grumbled about the "old boy network" of the Hollywood studios, lamented the lack of opportunities for ...

As recounted by Jane Campion, unusually taking sole screenwriting credit in addition to directing, the ill-starred love story of John Keats and Fanny Brawne is such as to make us ask ourselves when we last had on screen a love story we could believe in.

New Zealand-born, Australian-based filmmaker Jane Campion does not work often but she usually works well, giving international cinema a grace, elegance and intelligence that is often lacking in films.

REVIEW ***1 2 out of **** 'Bright Star' Rated: PG Running time: 1:59 Director: Jane Campion Showing: Opens Oct.

First things first: 'Bright Star' is a deeply romantic film about one of the greatest Romantic poets.

Film review Any description of the movie "Bright Star" should include the key words "restraint" and "subtlety." The handsome-looking period drama takes material that could have been portrayed in lurid and sensationalistic detail but instead portrays it with real sensitivity and class, without going too far in showing a passionate romantic ...

The first film that came to my mind after seeing Jane Campion's new film "Bright Star" was Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler." This association may seem strange, given that the former is a high-toned 19th-century romance, while the latter prominently features a wrestling move known as the "Ram Jam." But the comparison is more apt than you might ...

Bright Star Review Posted by Chad Webb on 09.30.2009 A movie that reminds younger viewers of the lost art of letter writing.

Jane Campion's first film since the disastrously-received "In the Cut" , "Bright Star" focuses on the impassioned romance that blossomed between John Keats and Fanny Brawne in the three years prior to his death.

THE NEW Jane Campion film submits to us the kind of blocked, chaste romance that younger audiences usually only get from vampire films.

Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in "Bright Star" John Keats' tomb in Rome is inscribed with the epitaph, of his own composition, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water," terribly apt words to describe a stablehand's son who produced some of the greatest poetry in the English language before dying of tuberculosis at age 25.

Actor Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael Bacon formed their band after the later had formed a career recording solo albums for Columbia Records and Monument-CBS. Actor Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael play shows tomorrow and Saturday night at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis.

JOHN KEATS WAS ONLY 25 years old when he died in Rome in 1821. In that brief life, he penned some 100-something poems, becoming a shooting star of English Romanticism alongside Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron and a scourge of slow-learning high-school English students who don't care to differentiate a Grecian urn from Grecian Formula.