Picnic at Hanging Rock /

Picnic at Hanging Rock /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:Picnic at Hanging Rock (Motion picture)
Edition:Director-approved, dual-format Blu-ray and DVD special edition
Imprint:[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2014]
Description:1 Blu-ray disc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 DVDs (4 3/4 in.) + 1 booklet (28 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm) + 1 book (196 pages ; 17 cm).
Language:English
Series:The Criterion collection ; 29
Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 29.
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 29.
Subject:
Lindsay, Joan Weigall, -- Lady -- Adaptations.
Lindsay, Joan Weigall, -- Lady.
Women college students -- Australia -- Drama.
Boarding schools -- Australia -- Drama.
Missing persons -- Australia -- Drama.
Boarding schools.
Manners and customs.
Missing persons.
Women college students.
Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama.
Australia.
Detective and mystery films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Format: DVD Video Blu-ray disc
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10071186
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other uniform titles:Weir, Peter, 1944-
McElroy, Hal, 1946-
McElroy, Jim, 1946-
Green, Cliff, 1934-
Roberts, Rachel, 1927-1980,
Guard, Dominic,
Weaver, Jacki, 1947-
Morse, Helen, 1948-
Lambert, Anne-Louise,
Lindsay, Joan Weigall, Lady. Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Other authors / contributors:Australian Film Commission.
South Australian Film Corporation.
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
ISBN:9781604658422
1604658428
Sound characteristics:digital optical 5.1 Dolby
digital optical mono
digital optical surround
Video characteristics:NTSC
Digital file characteristics:video file Blu-ray Region A
video file DVD video Region 1
Notes:Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975.
Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay.
Special features: Extended interview with Weir; New piece on the making of the film; New introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of the new biographical dictionary of film; A recollection ... ; Homesdale (1971) an award-w inning black comedy by Weir; A booklet featuring an essay by author; new paperback edition of the novel.
Director of photography, Russell Boyd; editor, Max Lemon; original music composed by Bruce Smeaton.
Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Anne Lambert.
Blu-ray, widescreen (1.85:1); mono, Region A.
DVD, widescreen (1.78:1, 16x9) presentation; 5.1 Surround sound, Region 1.
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.
Target Audience:MPAA rating: PG.
Standard no.:715515117111
Publisher's no.:CC2360BDDVD The Criterion Collection
Review by Library Journal Review

Before bringing his unique Australian sensibility to Hollywood (Witness), Peter Weir directed this mysterious story of three turn-of-the-20th-century schoolgirls and a chaperone inexplicably drawn to an outcropping of volcanic rock and vanishing without a trace. Criterion's welcome high-definition remastering of its dated catalog title aids this masterwork heavily dependent on a pristine presentation to cast fully its dreamy spell. Among several noteworthy extras, the out-of-print source novel is included in the preferred dual-format edition. [See Trailers, LJ 5/1/14.] (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Review by Library Journal Review

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