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Tag: Jane Campion

  • Basic Instinct: Hers Is Bigger

    Famous and infamous, this is really a remarkably adept film from a technical point of view. While working with other Verhoeven material on the day job (namely RoboCop), it seemed reasonable to sample more of his stuff…at least within reason. Basic Instinct, as everyone on the planet has noted, features the ultimate contemporary femme fatale;…

  • Double-Doubles: In The Cut

    The second, and later film from Jane Campion, In The Cut is not quite as “critically acclaimed,” as they say, but it should be. At least, it should be given more credit cinematically, since Campion perfects her already solid technique and creates a really impressive narrative, rich and cohesive, with elements swirling around in remarkable…

  • Fetish Objet Petit A: The Piano

    Two from Jane Campion, in order from older to not-as-old. The Piano is one of those films that peppers syllabi throughout film studies courses, functioning as it does as a textbook case of numerous cinematic motifs and psychoanalytic themes. As a plus, it’s a somewhat “feminist” film, in the vein of a Mildred Pierce or…