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Picnic At Hanging Rock (Criterion Collection)

Picnic At Hanging Rock (Criterion Collection)

Australian Film Commission (1975)
Blu-ray
PG (Parental Guidance)
715515117111
Drama | Mystery
Australia | English | Color | 01:47

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.


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Rachel Roberts Mrs. Appleyard - College Staff
Vivean Gray Miss Greta McCraw - College Staff
Helen Morse Mlle. de Poitiers - College Staff
Kirsty Child Miss Lumley - College Staff
Tony Llewellyn-Jones Tom - College Staff
Jacki Weaver Minnie - College Staff
Frank Gunnell Mr. Whitehead - College Staff
Anne-Louise Lambert Miranda St Clare - Pupil
Karen Robson Irma - Pupil
Jane Vallis Marion Quade - Pupil
Christine Schuler Edith - Pupil
Margaret Nelson Sara Waybourne - Pupil
Ingrid Mason Rosamund - Pupil
Jenny Lovell Blanche - Pupil
Janet Murray Juliana - Pupil
Vivienne Graves Pupil
Angela Bencini Pupil
Melinda Cardwell Pupil
Annabel Powrie Pupil
Amanda White Pupil
Lindy O'Connell Pupil
Verity Smith Pupil
Deborah Mullins Pupil
Sue Jamieson Pupil
Bernadette Bencini Pupil

Trailer

Edition details

Edition Criterion Collection
Nr Discs 3
Screen Ratios Widescreen (1.78:1)
Audio Tracks DTS-HD HR 5.1 [English]
Subtitles English
Distributor Criterion Collection
Layers Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date Jun 17, 2014
Regions Region 1

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Index 2059
Added Date Apr 18, 2018 22:00:07
Modified Date Jun 12, 2022 00:34:41

Notes

DIRECTOR-APPROVED EDITION:

Remastered high-definition digital film transfer, supervised 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
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film scholar Marek Haltof’s 1996 book Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide (dual-format only); a new paperback edition of Lindsay’s novel, previously out of print in the U.S. (dual-format only)

New cover by Eric Skillman

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