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Tagged: Peter Weir

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Deep Dive: Making Waves + Emma Bortignon Q&A
In 2020 the NFSA screened the documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, followed by a Q&A with award-winning Australian sound designer Emma Bortignon.
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Mr Movies Bill Collins at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival
As the 2019 Cannes Film Festival opens, we look back at how 'Mr Movies' Bill Collins reported on Cannes for a 1976 TV special.
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Filming Gallipoli
On the anniversary of the release of 'Gallipoli' in August 1981, we share this appearance of director Peter Weir and actors Mel Gibson and David Argue on the popular The Mike Walsh Show.
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Return to Hanging Rock
Clips from a Q&A with actress Anne Louise Lambert (Miranda), plus more outtakes from our 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' online exhibition, '40 Years of Mystery'.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock: Panpipes
Some of the most distinctive examples of Australian film music are the panpipe pieces by the Romanian folk musician Gheorghe Zamfir in Picnic at Hanging Rock. In this clip, we encounter the central...
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This is your life: David Gulpilil - Peter Weir
Peter Weir, who directed Gulpilil in The Last Wave (1977), talks about his 'star quality': David’s a very special case. As a director you don’t very often strike an actor with the qualities that he...
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Picnic at Hanging Rock: Two rescues
On St Valentine’s Day 1900, three schoolgirls from an exclusive English-style boarding school go missing, along with a teacher, at Hanging Rock, in central Victoria. In this clip, Michael Fitzhubert...
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Mel Gibson talks about 'Gallipoli' on The Mike Walsh Show, 1981
Actors Mel Gibson and David Argue and director Peter Weir talk with TV host Mike Walsh about the film 'Gallipoli' (1981).Gibson and Argue discuss playing characters that might seem innocent or naive...
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Peter Weir talks about 'Gallipoli' on The Mike Walsh Show, 1981
Peter Weir talks with TV host Mike Walsh about the inspiration for his film Gallipoli (1981). Weir visited the trenches at Gallipoli in the 1970s when the site was largely unchanged from the First...
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