Picnic at Hanging Rock [blu-ray] / a McElroy & McElroy production ; screeplay by Cliff Green ; directed by Peter Weir ; produced by Hal McElroy, Jim McElroy, Patricia Lovell.
Format:
[blu-ray] /
Edition:
Director-approved, Blu-ray special edition ; widescreen.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2014
Description:
1 Blu-ray disc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975. Special features: Extended interview with Weir; New piece on the making of the film; New introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of the new biographical dictionary of film; A recollection ... Hanging Rock 1900 (1975); Homesdale (1971) an award-winning black comedy by Weir. Rachel Roberts, Jacki Weaver, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse,Anne Lambert.
Summary:
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.