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From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies The Piano from 1993, and Heavenly Creatures from 1994.
The Piano is a 1993 erotic period drama film written and directed by Jane Campion.
Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin in her first major acting role, the film focuses on a mute Scottish woman who travels to a remote part of New Zealand with her young daughter after her arranged marriage to a frontiersman.
A co-production between New Zealand, Australia and France, The Piano was a critical and commercial success, grossing US$140.2 million worldwide against its US$7 million budget.
Hunter and Paquin both received high praise for their performances.
In 1993, the film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making Jane Campion the first female director to ever receive this award.
It won three Academy Awards out of eight total nominations in March 1994: Best Actress for Hunter, Best Supporting Actress for Paquin and Best Original Screenplay for Campion.
Paquin was 11 years old at the time and remains the second-youngest actor to win an Oscar in a competitive category.
The plot has similarities to Jane Mander's 1920 novel "The Story of a New Zealand River", but also substantial differences.
Campion says that Wuthering Heights and The African Queen were her inspirations.
Directed by: Jane Campion.
Written by: Jane Campion.
Produced by: Jan Chapman.
Starring: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker, and Genevieve Lemon.
Cinematography: Stuart Dryburgh.
Edited by: Veronika Jenet.
Music by: Michael Nyman.
Production companies: Jan Chapman Productions, and CiBy 2000.
Distributed by: BAC Films (France), and Miramax Films (United States).
Release dates: 15 May 1993 ( Cannes), 19 May 1993 (France), and 5 August 1993 (Australia).
File Length: 130 minutes.
Countries: New Zealand, Australia, and France.
Languages: English, Māori, and British Sign Language.
Budget: US$7 million.
Box office: US$140 million.
Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand biographical psychological drama film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his partner, Fran Walsh, and starring Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey in their feature film debuts, with supporting roles by Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, and Simon O'Connor.
Based on the notorious 1954 Parker–Hulme murder case in Christchurch, the film focuses on the relationship between two teenage girls—Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme —which culminates in the murder of Parker's mother.
The events of the film span the period from their meeting in 1952 to the murder in 1954.
The film opened in 1994 at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion and became one of the best-received films of the year.
Reviewers praised most aspects of the production, with particular attention given to the performances by the previously unknown Winslet and Lynskey, as well as for Jackson's directing.
The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Directed by: Peter Jackson.
Written by: Fran Walsh, and Peter Jackson.
Produced by: Jim Booth, and Peter Jackson.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison, and Simon O'Connor.
Cinematography: Alun Bollinger.
Edited by: Jamie Selkirk.
Music by: Peter Dasent.
Production companies: WingNut Films, Fontana Productions:, and New Zealand Film Commission.
Distributed by: Miramax Films.
Release dates: 14 October 1994 (New Zealand) , and 16 November 1994 (US).
File Length : 92minutes.
Country: New Zealand.
Language: English.
Budget: $5 million.
Box office: $5.4 million.
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