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The Power of the Dog is the first film directed by a woman to receive more than ten Academy Award nominations, and Campion is the first woman to receive more than one Academy Award nomination for Best Director, her first being for The Piano. The film is the first since Becket (1964) to win only one award from 12 nominations.
The Power of the Dog is a 1967 novel of Western fiction written by American author Thomas Savage. The story deals with bachelor brothers Phil and George, who live on a ranch in Montana, and the events following George's marriage. Phil looks with disdain at George's new wife, Rose, and her son Pete, after which dramatic events begin to unfold.
Winslow's novel describes three decades of the United States' war on drugs by following several main characters: The DEA agent Art Keller; Adán Barrera, who controls large parts of the drug trade from Mexico to the United States of America; the sex worker Nora Hayden; and Sean Callan, a gangster from the streets of New York.
Maybe ease up on your hatred of Phil Burbank just a little, the actor asks. There are things about the man that should be celebrated.
There’s an unpretentious beauty that resonates in each frame of director Jane Campion's “The Power of the Dog,” a dark, thoughtful tale that explores inexpressible emotions and their ...
“The Power of the Dog" is Campion's first film since her luminous 2009 John Keats drama “Bright Star"; in the interim she made the series “Top of the Lake," the vivid New Zealand mystery.
Odd's primary power is the ability to see ghosts and other departed spirits, primarily humans and dogs, though Odd has made allusions to others. The spirits never speak, though Odd does not know if this is due to inability or by choice until Odd Hours, when the spirit of a recently killed criminal attempts to speak to Odd and is surprised to ...
The western tends to be macho fare, akin to the gangster movie in the genre universe. But love takes many forms out on the prairie.