The Way Things Seem and the Way They Are
For a director who disliked the label of auteur, Peter Weir's movies all have his indelible stamp. From ‘The Cars That Ate Paris’ (1974) to the ‘The Way Back’ (2010) via ‘Gallipoli’, ‘Witness’, ‘Dead Poets Society’, ‘The Truman Show’ and ‘Master and Commander’, amongst others, prominent themes recur: people finding themselves out of place and somewhere they do not quite belong, individuals in conflict with society, the disparity between the way things seem and the way they are.
With the screening of the haunting ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’ coming up, John Harte of the Cinema Education Team will explore the work of a director who emerged from the Australian New Wave cinema of the 1970s to achieve commercial success and critical acclaim in Hollywood.
Roger Ebert said all of Weir's fourteen films were good and "most were great". This talk will look back on a career that seemed to halt prematurely in 2010 with Weir subsequently claiming he had "no more energy" for film-making.
Come along and form a judgement of your own — Carpe diem as Keating in Dead Poets Society might implore!
Tickets £7.50
100m inc Q&A
In the Auditorium
Included in offer:
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
