Picnic at Hanging Rock

Peter Weir

Australia

1975

107 minutes

1.66:1

English

29

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. AppleyardRachel Roberts
Miss McCrawVivean Gray
Mlle. de PoitiersHelen Morse
Miss LumleyKirsty Child
TomTony Llewellyn-Jones
MinnieJacki Weaver
Mr. WhiteheadFrank Gunnell

Credits

DirectorPeter Weir
ScreenplayCliff Green
From the novel byJoan Lindsay
ProducerHal McElroy and Jim McElroy
CinematographyRussell Boyd
EditingMax Lemon
Art directorDavid Copping
Costume designJudith 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 Vincent Canby Oct 19, 1998

Horror 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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