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Picnic Productions Pty. Ltd.
Directed by: Peter Weir
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all- female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, 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, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.
Technical Specifications
Format: Blu-ray/DVD
Aspect Ratio:
1.78:1 , 1.78:1 (Anamorphic)
Audio:
English 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
, English 5.1 DTS-HD MA Surround
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English
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1/A
Discs:
3 Discs |
DVD-9/BD-50
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Supplements
- Extended interview with Peter Weir
- New piece on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2003 with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members
- New introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
- A Recollection . . . Hanging Rock 1900 (1975), an on-set documentary hosted by Patricia Lovell and featuring interviews with Peter Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and source novel author Joan Lindsay
- Homesdale (1971), an award-winning black comedy by Weir
- Trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film scholar Marek Hatlof
- A new paperback edition of Joan Lindsay
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Release Credits
Artwork: Eric Skillman
Producer: Jason Altman
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