I loved the piano the first time and it did not disappoint the second time around. Best performance by an actress in a motion picture drama. A taiwanese drama about a music student majoring in piano. The piano was written and directed by jane campion and stars holly hunter, harvey keitel, sam neill, and anna paquin in her first acting role. The piano 1993 official trailer holly hunter, anna paquin movie. Ada holly hunter, mute since birth, her nine year old daughter anna paquin, and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth. Her parents in sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. The piano lesson is a 1995 american television film based on the play the piano lesson by august wilson. They have been rowed ashore, along with adas piano, to meet a local bachelor named stewart sam neill, who has arranged to marry her. Period drama, starring oscarwinners holly hunter and anna paquin. It is one of those rare movies that is not just about a story, or some characters, but about a whole universe of feeling of how people can be shut off from each other, lonely and afraid, about how help can come from. The movieclips channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. George is shown fully nude from the front in the beginning of a sex scene between him and ada.
Lets take a look at some of the best and worst musical performances onscreen. The piano 1993 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The piano lesson tv movie 1995 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. It tells the story of a father, chen guilin, who works very hard to realize his daughters dream of owning a piano. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the piano near you. Parents need to know that the piano is a complex adult drama with sexual relationships driving its plot. One of things i wish my momma would have beaten me to continue to play til now. The cinematography fits the storyline so perfectly. With holly hunter, harvey keitel, sam neill, anna paquin. The piano is a 1993 new zealand period drama film about a psychologically mute young woman and her preadolescent daughter, set during the mid19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of new zealand. Paquin was 11 years old at the time and is the second youngest actor to win an oscar in a competitive category.
Produced by hallmark hall of fame, the film originally aired on cbs on february 5, 1995. A diacritic also diacritical mark, diacritical point, or diacritical sign is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. The film is directed by zhang meng director, and stars qin hailu and wang qianyuan. Shots of szpilmans hands playing the piano in closeup were performed by polish classical pianist janusz olejniczak b. Roman polanskis the pianist tells the story of a polish jew, a classical musician, who survived the holocaust through stoicism and good luck. The piano 1993 official trailer holly hunter, anna. Ali plays reallife composer and musician don shirley in the film, which chronicles the polished songsmiths unlikely bond with his tough chauffeur and bodyguard viggo mortensen during a tour of. It also involves the womans failing arranged marriage to a frontiersman.
The film stars humphrey bogart, ingrid bergman, and paul henreid. He is a proficient pianist and stated in a 1995 interview with charlie rose that he would rather be a. In the movie an affair to remember 1957 grandmother janou played the piano for nicki and terry. Unafraid of confounding expectations, the piano selected theaters is a tonic for the tired soul. Shine is a 1996 australian biographical drama film based on the life of pianist david helfgott, who suffered a mental breakdown and spent years in institutions. Set during world war ii, it focuses on an american expatriate who. Adrien brody famously went from neophyte to semiprofessional after enduring at least four hours a day of training for the pianist.
The title is an understatement, and so is the film. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of the piano with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at. Casablanca is a 1942 american romantic drama film directed by michael curtiz based on murray burnett and joan alisons unproduced stage play everybody comes to ricks. The actoractress could actually be playing the piano. The piano 511 movie clip alisdair spies on george and.
The daughter appears to have more lines than the other actors. The piano 1993 official trailer holly hunter, anna paquin movie hd set in 1851, a mute scottish woman arrives in colonial new zealand for. She took piano lessons as a child and knew enough to portray a prodigy. The piano is a movie people have been talking about ever since it first played at cannes, last may, and shared the grand prix.
The piano 111 movie clip we cant leave the piano 1993 hd. Gosling said piano was something hed always wanted to learn. Sadistic and hated theater critic fitzgerald fortune buys a player piano that. Jurassic park tour voice voice rest of cast listed alphabetically. The screenplay was written by jan sardi, and directed.
Tilda swinton, billy zane, quentin crisp comedy drama ruths been brainwashed by a guru in delhi, india. A fictional story about an architect and a pianist who is preparing to play rachmaninoffs 2nd piano concerto. The piano piece heard at the end of the film, played with an orchestra, is chopins grande polonaise brillante, op. After five years of lessons, i have chopsticks and beuaty and the beast theme in my list of songs i have mastered. Dutton and alfre woodard, and relies on most of its cast from the original broadway production. Cast holly hunter ada mcgrath harvey keitel george baines sam neill stewart anna paquin. Adrien brody pays his dues in the pianist actor starved himself to pounds for role as nazi victim in polanski film playing a polish jew in hiding from the nazis, adrien brody spends most. The tudors tv series 20072010 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. This is not a thriller, and avoids any temptation to crank up suspense or sentiment. How do they show the actors playing the piano in movies. Richard gere playing piano and conducting symphony orchestra. She makes the film immediate and urgent by implicating the audience in. Holly hunter and anna paquin in the piano 1993 holly hunter at an event for the piano 1993 holly hunter and. Oldman was an accomplished pianist and a singer as a child, but gave up his musical aspirations to pursue acting as a career.
This movie was astonishing to me, so different than most of the movies made today, and it has become one of my favorite movies ever. The piano 1994 cast and crew after a long voyage from scotland, pianist ada mcgrath holly hunter and her young daughter, flora anna paquin, are left with all their belongings, including a. Love story is a 1970 american romantic drama film written by erich segal, who was also the author of the bestselling novel of the same name. In addition to a rather graphically staged play depicting violent acts, adas husband attacks ada with a real axe, chopping off her finger a scene accentuated by blood squirting on the face of. It stars geoffrey rush, lynn redgrave, armin muellerstahl, noah taylor, john gielgud, googie withers, justin braine, sonia todd, nicholas bell, chris haywood and alex rafalowicz. The movies heroine, wonderfully portrayed by holly hunter, is mute symbolic of the fact that she has no. The piano movie trailer, news, cast, interviews sbs movies. In the mid19th century, a mute woman is sent to new zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation. The piano is a 1993 new zealand period drama film about a psychologically mute young. The piano is an amazing movie the cinematography stunning like the piano on the beach and the sinking piano at the end. The piano is as peculiar and haunting as any film ive seen. I have recommended it to everyone ive talked to, and even posted clips of it online, encouraging others to see it. Yes, june allyson did play piano in the film too young to kiss. Actors who learned to play musical instruments for movies.
See more ideas about character actor, actors, movie stars. Here are 10 actors who learned how to play an instrument for a movie role. There is no praise high enough for holly hunters depiction of ada. It tells a story of love and fierce pride, and places it on a bleak new zealand coast. The film opens with the arrival of a 30ish woman named ada holly hunter and her young daughter, flora anna paquin, on a stormy gray beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named alisdair stewart sam neill. Directed by lloyd richards, the film stars charles s. Cannes film festival, where campions early shorts and first feature. The pianist who played the piano in the movie answers.
The piano is a near perfect picture that boasts an incredible cast of talented actors. With barry morse, joan hackett, don durant, muriel landers. Minsky 3 and directed by arthur hiller and starred ali macgraw and ryan oneal, alongside john marley, ray milland, and tommy lee jones in his film debut in a minor role. George harvey keitel strikes up a deal with ada holly hunter that she can earn her piano back, one key at a time, by letting her do things he likes while she plays. The music, the talent of all the actors and actresses in it. They have an affair when they are wrongly believed to have perished on board an airliner that. The piano was written and directed by jane campion and stars holly hunter, harvey keitel. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Holly hunter, harvey keitel, sam neill, anna paquin director.