Picnic at hanging rock /
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...
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| Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Subtitled from the deaf and hard of hearing. |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
[Publisher not identified],
[2014]
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| Edition: | [Criterion collection]. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ;
29. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Originally released as as motion picture in 1975. Based on a novel by Joan Lindsay. Special features: Extended interview with Weir; New piece on the making of the film, featuring interviews from 2003 with executive producer Patricia Lowell, 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." |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (107 min.) : Blu-ray, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Blu-ray, widescreen (1.78:1); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround; requires Blu-ray player. |