The Piano

@ “Jane Campion’s “The Piano” is returning to the big screen in a new 4K restoration from Sony Pictures Classics, giving one of the defining international arthouse films of the 1990s another theatrical moment. The restoration has more than a standard catalog-release pedigree, too. According to the Locarno Film Festival, where the new edition premiered, the new 4K restoration’s digital transfer and color grading were supervised and approved by Campion and cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh, whose images of colonial New Zealand, coastal isolation, and Ada McGrath’s piano remain central to the film’s enduring power. Written and directed by Campion, “The Piano” stars Holly Hunter as Ada, a mute Scottish pianist sent to New Zealand for an arranged marriage, arriving with her young daughter and the piano that serves as her most intimate form of expression. Sam Neill co-stars as her new husband, while Harvey Keitel plays George Baines, a local man whose relationship with Ada begins through a… View Source