Synopsis
Twenty years after it swept Australia into the international film spotlight, Peter Weir’s stunning 1975 masterpiece remains as ineffable as the unanswerable mystery at its core. A Valentine’s Day picnic at an ancient volcanic outcropping turns to disaster for the residents of Mrs. Appleyard’s school when a few young girls inexplicably vanish on Hanging Rock. A lyrical, meditative film charged with suppressed longings, Picnic at Hanging Rock is here available in a pristine widescreen director’s cut with a Dolby digital 5.1 channel soundtrack.
Cast
| Mrs. Appleyard | Rachel Roberts |
| Miss McCraw | Vivean Gray |
| Mlle. de Poitiers | Helen Morse |
| Miss Lumley | Kirsty Child |
| Tom | Tony Llewellyn-Jones |
| Minnie | Jacki Weaver |
| Mr. Whitehead | Frank Gunnell |
Credits
| Director | Peter Weir |
| Screenplay | Cliff Green |
| From the novel by | Joan Lindsay |
| Producer | Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy |
| Cinematography | Russell Boyd |
| Editing | Max Lemon |
| Art director | David Copping |
| Costume design | Judith Dorsman |
Disc Features
- The long awaited director’s cut, with a new widescreen transfer and a new 5.1 surround mix
- The original theatrical trailer
- Liner notes by Vincent Canby
- Subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
From the Current
Picnic at Hanging Rock
by Oct 19, 1998Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting...
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