Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Silent Maggie Smith and Jim Broadbent

Maggie Smith and Jim Broadbent

'Extreme Prejudice' Director: Walter Hill (1987) special features include commentary

Using his own mother's life as inspiration

He encounters the good and bad of humanity while looking for work at a fairground

early footage of Paris from BFI archive and more

Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Silent Maggie Smith and Jim Broadbent'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