Bright Star News

British TV productions won five International Emmys on Monday night as Brazil claimed its first, and Brits Julie Walters and Ben Whishaw took the top acting awards.

Sony will release Bright Star on Blu-ray Disc on 19 January. This acclaimed Jane Campion film will arrive with a 1080p transfer, a DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio sound mix, and a set of bonus features that has yet to be confirmed.

He is the "rebel from Arcadia", the author of the lyrics to the modern European anthem, Ode to Joy , and a passionate champion of free spirits.

I've got screenplays on the brain this week. It's partly thanks to the point of the Oscar race we're in-- there's still nothing to talk about but Precious , even though critics are starting to see Nine and The Lovely Bones can't be too far away either.

'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever,' opined Keats at the opening of Endymion. On the evidence of Jane Campion's 'Bright Star', this was a precept, along with venturing into the dank cold without an overcoat, about which Keats was unquestionably wrong.

Producer Jan Chapman spoke to Jess McCabe by phone from Sydney about women in the film industry - and her latest movie Bright Star We have two problems when it comes to representations of women in film: not enough films which treat women as subject not object, and not enough women making films.

The director of "An Education" recently lamented, good-naturedly, that she was tired of producers thinking of her for stereotypically female projects.

I woke up one day and there was this whole new thing I had to deal with. Grace under fire ... Abbie Cornish is now being recognised for the right reasons.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Bright Star on 26th January 2010 priced at $27.96 SRP.

Scrappy Hilary Swank stars in an Amelia Earhart biopic grounded by conventional storytelling and hokey dialogue.

Nick Hornby's sensitive adaptation of journlaist Lynn Barber's excellent memoir of her first boyfriend.

Once again, Reel Alternatives Huntsville is bringing a film that screened to rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival to the Capitol Theatre.

The Men Who Stare At Goats Release date: November 6 Running time: 94 mins Director: Grant Heslov Starring: Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey Based on Jon Ronson's bestseller, comedy erupts when the US government attempts to harness paranormal abilities for military purposes.

"Amelia": Hilary Swank plays pioneering aviator and women's-rights advocate Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while trying to fly around the world in 1937.

JANE CAMPION makes a semi-return to form after a series of duds with Bright Star, a lovely looking and finely acted celebration of the romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne his sparky 18-year-old next door neighbour.

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Film of the Week: The tender romance of John Keats and Fanny Brawne has the critics falling for Jane Campion By Rachel Helyer Donaldson F IRST P OSTED N OVEMBER 5, 2009 T he New Zealander Jane Campion, one of only three female directors to be nominated for an Academy Award and the only one to have ever won a Palme d'Or , has made a much-hailed ...

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'Layer Cake' star Ben Whishaw says he "felt a real connection" to his director. The 29-year-old 'Layer Cake' actor - who plays the character of John Keats in 'Bright Star', Jane Campion's new film about the famous poet - said he felt very close to the Oscar-winning film maker.

Ciaran Carty meets Abbie Cornish, co-star of Jane Campion's latest film about Romantic poet John Keats Abbie Cornish Women knew their place in polite society in early 19th century England, or were supposed to.