DVD & Blu-Ray: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (Criterion Collection)

Picnic at Hanging Rock Criterion Collection Cover

Product Description: 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 at long last available in a pristine widescreen director's cut with a newly-minted Dolby® digital 5.1 channel soundtrack.

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Starring: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Cliff Green

Rated: PG
Runtime: 115 min
Studio: Criterion Collection

Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Region: Region A/1

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Blu-Ray + DVD ($33.96) - 3 Discs

Special Features:

Remastered high-definition digital film transfer, supervised and approved by director Peter Weir, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Extended interview with 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 Lovell and featuring interviews with Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and source novel author Joan Lindsay
Homesdale (1971), an award-winning black comedy by Weir
Trailer
One Blu-ray and two DVDs, with all content available in both formats
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film critic Marek Haltof’s 1996 book Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide; a new paperback edition of Lindsay’s original novel, previously out of print in the U.S.

Ratings:

IMDb.com: 7,6/10 from 20.581 users
Rottentomatoes: 94% (29 fresh, 2 rotten, score: 8.3/10).

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