Arts

Elisabeth Moss (right) and Thomas Wright star in Jane Campion's new series Top of the Lake.

Two New TV Dramas Look Below The Surface

by David Bianculli

Jane Campion directs a new Sundance Channel miniseries, Top of the Lake, about a young New Zealand detective played by Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss. Meanwhile, producers from Lost and Friday Night Lights team up to create a prequel to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, called Bates Motel.
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All Standing by Kathryn Miles.

Famine Ship Jeanie Johnston Sailed Through Grim Odds

by NPR Staff

In the mid-19th century, more than a million Irish fled the potato famine in search of a better life. But the fate they met aboard so-called "coffin ships" headed to the New World was often as bad as what they left behind. Not so for those lucky enough to find their way onto one ship. Kathryn Miles tells the story in her book, All Standing.
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The noisy film is mostly wordless, with animals and nature filling in the blanks between its strangely stark images.

'Leviathan': The Fishing Life, From 360 Degrees

by Pat Dowell

Leviathan is a new film that's a documentary, and yet not quite a documentary. The mostly wordless art piece uses tiny cameras and dramatic soundscaping to probe the edges of human-animal interaction off the coast of New England. The filmmakers explain their unusual production process.
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