Jane Campion
Playing Favourites with Dame Jane Campion
Dame Jane Campion talks to Susie Ferguson about the intense job of directing movies, her love of napping in the bush and losing a baby as she won international acclaim for her 1993 film The Piano. Audio
Fifty Greatest Films: The Piano
There is a new Sight & Sound critics' survey of the greatest films of all time and Dan Slevin is going through the top 50 one at a time. Equal 50th is Aotearoa’s The Piano. Video
Composing Banjo music for The Power of the Dog
The Banjo plays a feature role in a particularly unsettling scene in Jane Campion's Oscar-winning western psychological drama The Power of the Dog. NZ composer and musician David Ward was tasked with… Audio
Dame Jane Campion wins best director Oscar for 'Power of the Dog'
Dame Jane Campion has received the Academy Award for best director for "The Power of the Dog," becoming the third woman in the Oscars' 94-year history to take home the prize.
Robert Leonard: the surprising photographs of a young Jane Campion
With her filmmaking Dame Jane Campion has often surprised - as she also did with comments at the recent Critics Choice Awards, for which she has apologised. And she surprises again with photos from… Audio, Gallery
I'm Listening To This: Meg Mason
Foxton-born author Meg Mason would be forgiven for feeling like the last 12 or so months have passed in a blur. Although it was her second novel (and third book overall), the release of Sorrow and… Audio
Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney
Seamus says Europe is on alert after UK and Norway terror attacks and there are mass protests in Italy over a Covid pass for workers showing that they've been vaccinated. Also he joins us fresh from… Audio
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie: 'Is there anything she can't do?'
Wellington actor Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie has been described as "dazzlingly talented" in Vogue, and has worked alongside such movie stars as Benedict Cumberpatch, Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten… Audio
Jane Campion becomes Dame Jane
Award winning film director Jane Campion has been formally invested as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Video, Audio
Widescreen’s best of the web (24 June)
Our pick of the best* and most interesting screen-related articles and features from around the web – special close reading edition – including Rohmer’s swimsuits, Ridley Scott’s typography, and An…
The Day in Music History: 30 April
Jim Mora looks back on 30 April in history, with memories and music. Audio
Jane Campion made a Dame
The New Years Honours are out and the retiring All Black captain, Richie McCaw has been given our highest honour, the Order of New Zealand. Audio
Miranda July: bad men and participatory art
Writer, filmmaker and artist whose participatory work includes the messaging app, Somebody. Her debut novel is The First Bad Man. Audio
Ukraine is Not a Brothel filmmaker Kitty Green
Australian filmmaker whose new documentary, Ukraine is Not a Brothel, is screening at the New Zealand International Film Festivals Audio