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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

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

Picnic at Hanging Rock Criterion Collection Cover
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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.

Read more about the movie and special features after the jump.


  • 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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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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