Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Irish Griffith (1916) Eureka Masters of

Griffith (1916) Eureka Masters of Cinema 2-Disc Blu-ray

'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' Director: Tony Richardson (1962) includes commentary

A combination of the farcical and the horrific which works to great effect

- Video essay on the film by John Ford expert and scholar Tag Gallagher

Starring William Powell

Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Irish Griffith (1916) Eureka Masters of'Picnic at Hanging Rock' by Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics Series, paperback) Peter Weir's haunting and allusive film, set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculiarly Australian style of heritage filmmaking. Anna Backman Rogers' study considers Picnic