Picnic at Hanging Rock [dvd] / Janus Films ; B.E.F. Film Distributors Pty Ltd, with The South Australian Film Corporation and The Australian Film Commission present ; a McElroy & McElroy production ; produced in association with Patricia Lovell ; Peter Weir's film of ; screenplay by Cliff Green ; executive producer, Patricia Lovell ; produced by Hal McElroy & Jim McElroy ; directed by Peter Weir ; distributed by Umbrella Entertainment.
Format:
[dvd] /
Edition:
Two-disc special edition.
Publisher:
distributed by The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Anne Lambert, Christine Schuler, Karen Robson, Margaret Nelson, Jane Vallis. From the novel by Joan Lindsay. Special features: Disc 1: David Thomson introduction (new introduction by film scholar and author of the new biographical dictionary of film). Disc 2: Peter Weir (extended interview); Everything begins and ends (2003 documentary features interviews with producers Hal and Jim McElroy, executive producer Patricia Lovell, cinematographer Russell Boyd, and actors Helen Morse and Anne Louise Lambert); A recollection...Hanging Rock 1800 (1975 on-set documentary by executive producer Patricia Lovell features interviews with source novel author Joan Lindsay, director Peter Weir, and cast members Rachel Roberts and Dominic Guard); Homesdale (Peter Weir's 1971 award-winning black comedy); Trailer.
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.
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