DVD

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Green, Cliff, 1934-1934 December 6-2020, (screenwriter.). Lovell, Patricia, (film producer.). McElroy, Hal, 1946- (film producer.). McElroy, Jim, 1946- (film producer.). Weir, Peter, 1944- (film director.). Roberts, Rachel, 1927-1980 (actor.). Guard, Dominic, (actor.). Morse, Helen, 1948- (actor.). Weaver, Jacki, 1947- (actor.). Lambert, Anne-Louise, (actor.). Robson, Karen, 1957- (actor.). Zamfir, Gheorghe, 1941- (performer.). Smeaton, Bruce, (composer (expression)). Copping, David, 1936- (art director.). Boyd, Russell, 1944- (director of photography.). Lemon, Max, 1936- (editor.). Thomson, David, 1941- (interviewee (expression)). Abbott, Megan, 1971- (writer of supplementary textual content.). Lindsay, Joan Weigall Lady Motion picture adaptation of (work): Picnic at hanging rock. (Added Author). Janus Films, (production company.). B.E.F Film Distributors Pty. Ltd., (presenter.). South Australian Film Corporation, (presenter.). Australian Film Commission, (presenter.). McElroy & McElroy Productions, (production company.). Umbrella Entertainment (Firm), (film distributor.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (film distributor.). Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Anne Lambert, Christine Schuler, Karen Robson, Margaret Nelson, Jane Vallis. (Cast).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781604658705
ISBN: 1604658703
Physical Description: videodisc
2 videodiscs (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert
Edition: Two-disc special edition.
Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2014]
Distributor: [Irvington, New York] : Distributed by the Criterion Collection, [2014]
Copyright: copyright2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	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. Booklet features an essay by author Megan Abbott.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Fl©te de Pan played by Gheorghe Zamfir ; additional original music composed by Bruce Smeaton ; art direction, David Copping ; director of photography, Russell Boyd ; edited by Max Lemon.
Participant or Performer Note:	Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Anne Lambert, Christine Schuler, Karen Robson, Margaret Nelson, Jane Vallis.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: PG.
System Details Note:	DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.78:1, 16x9) presentation; 5.1 Surround sound.