Picnic at Hanging Rock

DVD 2014

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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ISBN:

9781604658705

Edition:

Director-approved Two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (107 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital 5.1
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Notes:

Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay
For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975
Title from container
Flûte de Pan played by Gheorghe Zamfir ; additional original music composed by Bruce Smeaton ; art direction, David Copping ; director of photography, Russell Boyd ; edited by Max Lemon
Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver, Anne Lambert, Christine Schuler, Karen Robson, Margaret Nelson, Jane Vallis
DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1
For private home use only
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

Control Number:

1003085

UPC:

715515120319

Other Authors:

Abbott, Megan, 1971- writer of supplementary textual content
Australian Film Commission, presenter
B.E.F Film Distributors Pty. Ltd., presenter
Boyd, Russell, 1944- director of photography
Copping, David, 1936- art director
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Green, Cliff, 1934- screenwriter
Guard, Dominic, actor
Janus Films, production company
Lambert, Anne-Louise, actor
Lemon, Max, editor of moving image work
Lovell, Patricia, film producer
McElroy & McElroy Productions, production company
McElroy, Hal, 1946- film producer
McElroy, Jim, 1946- film producer
Morse, Helen, 1947- actor
Roberts, Rachel, 1927-1980, actor
Robson, Karen, 1957- actor
Smeaton, Bruce, composer (expression)
South Australian Film Corporation, presenter
Thomson, David, 1941- interviewee (expression)
Umbrella Entertainment (Firm), film distributor
Weaver, Jacki, 1947- actor
Weir, Peter, 1944- film director
Zamfir, Gheorghe, 1941- performer
motion picture adaptation of (work): Lindsay, Joan Weigall, Lady. Picnic at Hanging Rock

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