The piano
(Blu-ray) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 1993.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Special features: new conversation between Campion and film critic Amy Taubin; new interviews with Dryburgh and production designer Andrew McAlpine; interview with actor Holly Hunter on working with Campion; The piano at 25, a program featuring a conversation between Campion and producer Jan Chapman; excerpts from an interview with costume designer Janet Patterson; Water diary, a 2006 short film by Campion; trailer.

Director of photography, Stuart Dryburgh ; editor, Veronika Jenet ; music, Michael Nyman.

Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker, Cliff Curtis.

With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her ineffectual husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction. With its sensuously moody cinematography, dramatic coastal landscapes, and a sweeping score, this uniquely timeless evocation of a woman's inner awakening is an intoxicating sensory experience that burns with the twin fires of music and erotic passion.

MPAA rating: R; for moments of extremely graphic sexuality.

Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.85:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player.

English and Maori dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).