Today’s online store additions consist of two titles that came in today’s mail, David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” and Claude Chabrol’s “La Ceremonie,” as well as Jane Campion’s “An Angel at My Table.”
After making her feature length theatrical debut with “Sweetie,” Campion returned to television (she’d made a tv movie called “2 Friends” in 1986) for “An Angel at My Table,” which was originally intended as a mini-series. “Angel…” tells the story of New Zealand writer Janet Frame in three installments, chronicling her remarkable life in a way that doesn’t feel like a highlight reel, as is so often the case with biopics that attempt to cover more than a few years in an artist or celebrity’s life. The film would win major prizes at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, as well as an Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film, and continue Campion’s rise as a figure to watch in world cinema… a rise that would reach stratospheric heights with her next picture, “The Piano.”