ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #5 – The Power of the Dog Tom Bond December 31, 2021 Analysis, Features, Top 10 A darkened interior frames a lone man striding across a dusty plain. It’s one of the most well-worn images in cinema, and it provides a powerful visual shorthand for the themes of any Western: domesticity vs...
The Power of the Dog – Review Tom Bond November 18, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. Jane Campion’s latest film, an adaptation of Thomas Savage’s The Power of the Dog, is a masterful...
Jane Campion’s The Piano, 25 Years On Ellena Zellhuber-McMillan June 14, 2018 Features, Spotlight Arriving in the midst of a new era of feminism and a heightened awareness how the film industry treats women, the rerelease of Jane Campion’s 1993 film The Piano feels well-timed. The film, a Victorian...
The Celluloid Ceiling: International Women’s Day In Film David Brake March 8, 2014 Analysis, Close-Up, Features 2 Comments HOLLYWOOD Hey, you. Do you know how much 2013's female-fronted movies made at the box office? No? Care to guess? With their totals combined, major Hollywood films like Gravity, The Hunger Games: Catching...
