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	Picnic at Hanging Rock :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies
		On the slopes of the rock their parasols and happy laughter are a contrast to the ancient, brooding land.
		Nicolas Roeg's ``Walkabout'' touches on some of the same feelings as ``Picnic at Hanging Rock.'' In it, a white girl and her brother are left abandoned in the wilderness when their father kills himself.
		The suggestion in both ``Walkabout'' and ``Picnic'' is that aboriginal life cannot be sustained in cities, nor European-based life in nature, and it is intriguing that girls on the brink of maturity are the focal point in both films.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980802/REVIEWS08/401010325/1023 (1218 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock
		Picnic at Hanging Rock, one of the strongest films of the Australian cinema renaissance of the 1970s, owed much of its success to its unique score, which became a point of note whenever the film was reviewed.
		The ‘scene-setting’ music, used prior to the disappearance, was the most celebrated element in Picnic at Hanging Rock’s score: the famous panpipe music of Georg Zamfir, who interpeted various folk pieces from the Eastern European alps for the flute de pan.
		While others fall into a post-meal nap, four girls decide to climb to the top of the rock, and their ascent is accompanied by one of only a few pieces especially written for the film (by Bruce Smeaton): a fugue-like contemporary piano piece over sinisterly soaring male voices, with constantly upwardly modulating key-changes.
	homepage.mac.com /nigie/Words/picnic.html (1748 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is the title of a 1967 novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay, and the 1975 film adaptation directed by Peter Weir.
		The plot concerns a trip by a party of girls from an exclusive private school, who travel to Hanging Rock in Victoria's Mount Macedon area for a picnic on St.
		Peter Weir's film of Picnic at Hanging Rock premiered at the Hindley Cinema Complex in Adelaide on 8 August 1975.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock (447 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock
		During their innocent picnic at the site of a million-year-old volcanic formation called Hanging Rock, four of the girls decide to do a little exploring.
		The ancient volcanic rock looms like an affront to human frailty; the lizards slither by with supreme indifference and voracious ants crawl over the leftover tea cake as well as the legs of the girls napping in the hot sun.
		Picnic is his purest statement of this theme, a subtle dreamlike movie which imperceptibly shades into dark fantasy.
	www.metrotimes.com /movies/filmarchive/18/50/picnic.html (436 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
		The image of Sara sitting on the stairs, staring blankly ahead, the darkness a twilight sea surrounding her is both sad and beautiful.
		PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK is more about the effect of the disappearances of four people on the town and on some of the individuals remaining than it is about solving the mystery of the disappearances themselves.
		And while it is, I feel, a tale of the supernatural, it is one which is subtle and in which that supernatural element envelopes the film or flows through it quietly, a natural part of it.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/picnichangingrock.html (1711 words)

	OZ CINEMA.com : Reviews : Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
		The fact that the girls are so delighted and relieved to be able to remove their gloves during their passage to Hanging Rock leads us to be shocked when the mystical allure of the rock tempts them to remove their shoes and stockings.
		The subsequent disappearance of Irma's corset reinforces the notion that the natural, primitive "calling" of the rock has led the girls to throw off the shackles of their oppressors in favour of nature and freedom.
		The girls' willingness to remove their clothing and climb the rock displays their desire to return to the values of the past and to work towards spiritual awakening rather than social acceptance as has been forced upon them.
	www.ozcinema.com /reviews/p/picnic.html (1262 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Picnic At Hanging Rock: Criterion Collection
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is widely considered the seminal work of director Peter Weir, as it was one of his first large scale works, and undoubtedly the one which launched him to stardom as a director of such excellent films as The Truman Show, and Dead Poet's Society.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is one of the first Criterion Collection films I ever saw on DVD.
		Outlining the plot would be largely foolish, but for the crux of the film, which is thus; at the turn of the century, a local group of college girls and their teacher picnic at a local volcanic outcropping called Hanging Rock in Australia.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/hangingrock.php (752 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock - About the Book, About the Film
		In both the book and the film the watches of the schoolgirls stopped at noon when they were on the rock and this was the cue for the strange and terrifying events that followed.
		The most important location in the film, next to Hanging Rock itself, was Martindale Hall at Clare, South Australia.
		PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK's music track has three major elements.
	www.hangingrock.info /picnic/weir/weir.html (1195 words)

	Interview With Peter Weir:Picnic At Hanging Rock
		This brief article/interview was done after the release of "Picnic At Hanging Rock" by Jan Dawson for the Spring '76 Issue of "Sight and Sound".
		Picnic At Hanging Rock is adapted from a 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay.
		Appleyard, a Bournemouth expatriate, iron-corseted and iron-gloved; the Hanging Rock is an extraordinary volcanic formation on the slopes of Mount Macedon, on the edge of the Victorian bush; and the missing persons are a mathematics teacher and two girls, who disappear without a trace during a picnic.
	www.peterweircave.com /articles/articleg.html (1106 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock . Nashville Scene . 09-08-98
		Picnic at Hanging Rock, Weir's deeply unsettling 1975 film about a disappearance at a turn-of-the-century boarding school for girls, has just been given a new reissue; seen in Truman's cathode-ray glow, it's remarkably similar in both theme and style.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock opens on Valentine's Day 1900 at stern Mrs.
		On a morning expedition to nearby Hanging Rock, an uncharted formation of volcanic rock, four of the girls wander off to explore the summit.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/nash/p/picnicathangingro1.html (531 words)

	The Solution to Joan Lindsay's Novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
		The faint scratchings and bruising of the undergrowth are consistent with a rock fall, being the damage done as rock tumbles downhill.
		Now huge rocks and boulders blocked his path on the rising ground, each a nightmare obstacle to be somehow walked around, clambered over, crawled under, according to size and contour.
		The little dark one with curls was lying face downwards on a ledge of sloping rock directly underneath the lower of the two boulders, with one arm flung out over her head, like a little girl fallen asleep on a hot afternoon.
	www.mck.com.au /users/brett/picnicSolution.htm (5010 words)


		The aim of this paper is to use Peter Weir's 1975 film Picnic at Hanging Rock as a visual text in an exploration of (i) unfettered power and its connection to oppression and violence, (ii) human resistance to such power, and (iii) the theological implications of these important interrelated issues.
		It is a deeply primordal sound--one that will be echoed on the afternoon of the picnic when Miss McCraw's attention is inexplicibly drawn from her book of trigonometry to the jutting crags of the Rock, and when the schoolgirls Miranda, Marion and Irma explore in awed fascination the time-encoded patterns and formations of the monolith.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock says that transcendence is possible and that we all have a choice to embrace mystery and grow in consciousness, to leave behind the trappings of oppressive systems and scale the sunlit peaks of awareness and life-giving action.
	www.isd.net /mbayly/rockofages.htm (5090 words)

	The Jujube Spotlight - Picnic at Hanging Rock
		Unlike most films which hint at or show strange and magical worlds beyond our own, "Picnic at Hanging Rock" focuses not on the chosen few who transcend ordinary experience to find new destinations, but on the ones who are left behind.
		It is she who feels the call of Hanging Rock and leads three of her friends on an exploration of its slopes.
		The disappearances on Hanging Rock --- whether they represent nature, the paranormal, the divine, or merely death --- generate dread, frustration, awe, and even jealousy in those who are not initiated into their mystery.
	archive.thejujube.com /P/picnicatrock.html (861 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock Information
		Rock and College come together in the adventure of the picnic; the College is 'tested' by the Rock, and disintegrates under the strain, while the Rock remains wholly unmoved by the College's venturing upon it.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is an important and rewarding film from points of view considered elsewhere in this book, but it is crucial to this chapter because it provides some of the most eloquent visual statements about the physical nature of Australia and its relations to man's place in the continent.
		A picnic in the Australian bush is an idyll that should be undertaken cautiously; the landscape may look passive from a distance but up close it may be fraught with danger for the uninitiated.
	www.bookmice.net /darkchilde/rock/rockxxc.html (1519 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Picnic at Hanging Rock - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Picnic at Hanging Rock, Australian motion picture about three female students who disappear during a school field trip, set in Australia in the year...
		Rock (mineral), naturally occurring solid material consisting of one or more minerals.
	encarta.msn.com /Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock.html (127 words)

	Review: Picnic at Hanging Rock
		Picnic at Hanging Rock isn't about the truth of what happened to the girls, but the many possibilities of what could have occurred.
		For Picnic at Hanging Rock to work, the viewer must be drawn into the movie and experience it as one of the girls.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is the film that put Peter Weir on the international map - sort of.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/p/picnic_hanging.html (1113 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Picnic at Hanging Rock
		A major curiosity of a movie, Picnic at Hanging Rock is one of the earliest of the Australian pictures of the seventies that made it big in the American market, or at least earned wide distribution.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is from a book, which may or may not be as mysterious as Weir's film, but for the sake of analysis, let's say we only have the film to go by.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is best when simply showing the depressing aftermath of the disaster: ruin for the school, and haunted reactions from the remaining girls and everyone else around.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s329rock.html (1448 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock
		Picnic at Hanging Rock begins with character development of the schoolgirls.
		The frustration that the audience feels at not knowing the truth is shown on the screen as the townsfolk and school become increasingly agitated at the inability of anyone to produce definite answers.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock was the movie that truly led the recovery of the Australian industry.
	www.convictcreations.com /culture/movies/picnicathangingrock.html (314 words)

	k-punk: Nothing happens
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is the exemplary study of disapparition in cinema - I know of no other major film which deals with unexplained disappearance.
		As is well known, in her original manuscript, Joan Lindsay provided a solution of sorts to the enigma, in a concluding chapter that her publishers encouraged her to excise from the published version of the novel.
		Hanging Rock broods like one of Dominquez or Ernst's decalcomania spinal landscapes; the incursion of an unassimilable Deep Time, a time that preceded the arrival of human beings by many millennia ('Waiting a million years, just for us').
	k-punk.abstractdynamics.org /archives/008806.html (789 words)

	Challenger 18 - No Picnic At Hanging Rock, Guy Lillian
		The Hanging Rock is a spectacular volcanic uprising on the plains below Mount Macedon [in Victoria, Australia], of special interest to geologists on account of its unique rock formations, including monoliths and reputedly bottomless holes and caves...
		It was thought at the time that the missing persons had attempted to climb the dangerous rock escarpments near the summit, where they presumably met their deaths; but whether by accident, suicide or...
		Hanging Rock is a mamelon, an extinct volcano, some six million years old - a whelp by geological standards.
	www.challzine.net /18/18hgrock.html (2654 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Valentine's Day picnic at an ancient volcanic outcropping turns to disaster for the residents of Mrs.
		A lyrical, meditative film charged with suppressed longings, Picnic at Hanging Rock is at long last available in a pristine widescreen director's cut with a newly-minted Dolby® digital 5.1 channel soundtrack.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is presented in the director’s preferred aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=29 (179 words)

	Images - Picnic at Hanging Rock
		And Picnic at Hanging Rock is no different: it gives us a palpably dense, dream-like atmosphere that forever is on the verge of intoxicating the viewers, as is does the lead characters, in an overpowering aura of longing and repression.
		On a metaphorical level, the movie suggests that the girls' minds have become foggy (enraptured?) by the rock's magnetic pull (a sign of sexual yearning?) and they have embarked on a hypnotic journey to a mythical never-never land of higher (sexual?) fulfillment.
		Many critics have mistakenly assumed that the events portrayed in Picnic at Hanging Rock are based on actual events that took place in 1900 near Woodend in the state of Victoria.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue07/reviews/hangingrock/text-new.htm (801 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - IMDb user comments
		Picnic at Hanging Rock, while not being a crime story, can be involving as one - if you help this to happen, of course.
		During the noon day nap at Hanging Rock, the girls, heads resting in one another's laps, are in a state very much resembling post coital bliss--far from seeming repressed, they are among the most content women I've ever seen on screen.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is a masterpiece of psychological fiction in which we see an awful thing happen from a great distance and are only given enough clues to guess at what happened to the missing girls.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0073540/usercomments (3398 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
		Hanging Rock itself turns out to be a raw, primitive place.
		Appleyard reduces the rock to a homework assignment, informing her charges that she expects them to write an essay on its geology.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is not a movie that I would recommend to everyone, but if the film's themes sound at all interesting, you will find that Picnic at Hanging Rock is a highly absorbing and thought-provoking two hours.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/p/picnichanging.htm (1338 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Picnic at Hanging Rock
		As a treat for the girls, a picnic is arranged at a local promontory, a large volcanic rock honeycombed with caves.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock has a mood, and the landscapes of roasting Austral forest are sometimes hypnotic.
		Picnic at Handing Rock (PG; 108 min.), directed by Peter Weir, written by Joan Lindsay and Cliff Green, based on the novel by Lindsay, photographed by Russell Boyd and starring Rachel Roberts.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.16.98/picnichanging-9828.html (586 words)

	Picnic at Hanging Rock \| Aus 1975
		Picnic at Hanging Rock tells the story of a group of schoolgirls from an elite private school,Appleyard College, who, on St.Valentine's Day in 1900, take a field trip to Hanging Rock, a sacred Aboriginal ground located on the edge of the Australian bush.
		In Picnic at Hanging Rock, as well as in his other films, Weir shows the limitations of the protagonists' (and, simultaneously, our) knowledge, which fails to answer basic questions.This concept is explicitly addressed in a scene showing a small plant that closes in on itself when touched.
		Her body is found at the base of Hanging Rock, and it is believed that she fell while attempting to climb it.
	www.celtoslavica.de /chiaroscuro/films/picnic/picnic.html (3866 words)

	The Criterion Contraption: #29: Picnic at Hanging Rock
		Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1975, directed by Peter Weir, screenplay by Cliff Green from the novel by Joan Lindsay.
		a Picnic at Hanging Rock, that is! On the trip, three of the students and one of their teachers disappear under mysterious circumstances; the movie is about their disappearance and its consequences.
		Picnic at Hanging Rock is based on the 1967 novel of the same name by the Australian author Joan Lindsay.
	criterioncollection.blogspot.com /2005/05/29-picnic-at-hanging-rock.html (1078 words)

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