DVD
  | Picnic At Hanging Rock: Deluxe Edition (3 Discs)£14.99 Free DeliveryRRP: £19.99 | You save: £5.00 (25%) Pre-order. | Due for release on 30/06/2008 |
- Features Director's Cut and the much in demand longer Original Version (currently unavailable in any territory)
- 'A Dream Within A Dream' (120 min documentary)
- 'A Recollection - Hanging Rock 1900'
- Joan Lindsay interview
- Hanging Rock and Martindale Hall - Then and Now
- The Day of St Valentine (1st screen adaptation)
- Audio Interviews
- Stills and Poster Gallery
- The Director's Cut deleted scenes
On Saturday 14th February 1900 a party of schoolgirls from Appleyard College took a trip to Hanging Rock near Mt. Macedon in the state of Victoria. During the idyllic sun-drenched afternoon some of the party left the rest of the group and having climbed higher stopped to rest and fell asleep. They awoke as though still in a dream and silently ventured further through a passage in the imposing rock face. Some of the girls were never seen again.
The film that established Peter Weir as a major filmmaker is a critically acclaimed classic of Australian cinema. With BAFTA-winning photography and a memorably haunting score Picnic at Hanging Rock remains one of the most chillingly atmospheric and beautifully enigmatic films ever made.
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At last, this masterpiece gets the DVD set it deserves?
redfloatboat | 30/04/2008 | See all redfloatboat's reviews (1) »
So my favourite movie gets the really special treatment in June...many Picnic fans have been disappointed that the directors cut from Peter Weir in 1998 (originally released in the US on Criterion) has been the only version to surface in any territory on DVD. This cut famously has seven minutes removed from it (boo!) but had a sparkly new 5.1 surround mix (yay!). The most recent UK disc, from Pathe, was worse, featuring new main titles pasted over the directors cut (with typos! 'Gheorghe Zamfi' anyone?) and just a stereo soundtrack.
This 3-disc set, with both versions of the film, includes the extras from the fantastic Australian 'Umbrella Entertainment' 2-disc set also. I wonder if the Dominic Guard audio interview, ommitted in error from the Australian release, will be included in this...
PG | |
1975 | |
English - Dolby Digital (5.1) | |
English For The Hearing Impaired | |
Region 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players. |
