Tonight the American Cinematheque will host the West Coast premiere of a new 4K restoration of Peter Weir’s 1975 film “Picnic at Hanging Rock.” The restoration will begin a run at the ...

Five decades later, Picnic at Hanging Rock remains a landmark film for the Australian New Wave of cinema, for Weir’s career, and for strange supernatural mysteries. Part coming-of-age drama ...

Indeed, in 2018, “Picnic at Hanging Rock” was remade as a six-episode TV mini-series. “There is now some solemnly overheated melodrama involving sexual exploration and jealousy,” Mike Hale ...

As a novel (in 1967) and a film (in 1975), “Picnic at Hanging Rock” had a couple of features that could be problematic in 2018.

Fascinating and Frustrating in Equal Measure, Classic Australian Film ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ Returns. The movie is now considered a classic and, along with the book on which it was based, inspires ...

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Despite its Feb. 14 billing at the Hollywood Theatre, Picnic at Hanging Rock is more romantic in the sense of English lit than Valentine’s Day.

Discretion, silences and underachievement marked Joan Lindsay’s life and work – despite writing an Australian classic. A new biography investigates her many mysteries.