Picnic at Hanging Rock

#4 in my ranking of Peter Weir's filmography. Wait...this was made by the same guy who made The Cars that Ate Paris? Really? This is far more aesthetically beautiful, far more in command of its balance of symbols and narrative, and much better acted. And Weir made it just a year after The Cars that…

The Cars that Ate Paris

#13 in my ranking of Peter Weir's filmography. This is actually the second time I've seen Peter Weir's first full length feature film, and I'm as confused as ever. Much like I felt there were political aspects of his first film Homesdale that I didn't grasp because they seemed to have been made for a…

Homesdale

#14 in my ranking of Peter Weir's filmography. This is one of those very early works of a promising young artist who has decided to make his first shot about, well, everything. There's ambition and some talent, but ultimately it is too rough on pretty much every level to rise above a curiosity for Peter…

Peter Weir: A Statement of Purpose

Bouncing back and forth from older filmmakers to newer ones, I once again fall upon a living filmmaker I assume won't make any more movies. Ethan Hawke came out a couple of years ago saying that Weir had given up on trying to make another film after his final work The Way Back in 2010.…

So Ends the fifth section of Best Pictures…

Ha! Take that expectations! I didn't even get halfway through the 70s! This'll be it for a while. I'll be doing Peter Weir's work and then the work of another earlier (relatively) Hollywood filmmaker in its entirety and then a horror franchise before getting back to the Best Picture stuff. Still this early 70s period…