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finalised budget was A$440,000, coming from the Australian Film Development Corporation, British Empire Films and the South Australian Film Corporation. $3,000 came from private investors. Filming began in February 1975 with principal photography taking six weeks. Locations included Hanging Rock in Victoria, Martindale Hall near Mintaro in rural South Australia, and at the studio of the South Australian Film Corporation in Adelaide. Director of photography Russell Boyd stated in an interview that he created the ethereal look of the picnic by placing simple bridal veil fabric over the camera lens. The film was edited by Max Lemon. Weir originally cast
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finalised budget was A$440,000, coming from the Australian Film Development Corporation, British Empire Films and the South Australian Film Corporation. $3,000 came from private investors. Filming began in February 1975 with principal photography taking six weeks. Locations included Hanging Rock in Victoria, Martindale Hall near Mintaro in rural South Australia, and at the studio of the South Australian Film Corporation in Adelaide. Director of photography Russell Boyd stated in an interview that he created the ethereal look of the picnic by placing simple bridal veil fabric over the camera lens. The film was edited by Max Lemon. Weir originally cast
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Summerfield (film) Summerfield is a 1977 Australian film, directed by Ken Hannam, written by Cliff Green (who wrote the screenplay for "Picnic At Hanging Rock") and produced by Patricia Lovell (who produced "Picnic At Hanging Rock"). It stars Nick Tate, Elizabeth Alexander, John Waters, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Max Fairchild and Geraldine Turner, and was filmed on location on Phillip Island and Churchill Island in Victoria. The story begins with Simon Robinson arriving in a small seaside community to take over as teacher at the local school. He makes the acquaintance of siblings Jenny and David Abbott (Alexander and Waters, respectively),
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(1976). Shooting took place at the town of Cowes on Philip Island and around Western Port Bay Victoria starting 14 February 1977. Summerfield (film) Summerfield is a 1977 Australian film, directed by Ken Hannam, written by Cliff Green (who wrote the screenplay for "Picnic At Hanging Rock") and produced by Patricia Lovell (who produced "Picnic At Hanging Rock"). It stars Nick Tate, Elizabeth Alexander, John Waters, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Max Fairchild and Geraldine Turner, and was filmed on location on Phillip Island and Churchill Island in Victoria. The story begins with Simon Robinson arriving in a small seaside community to
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was unmarked by a history prior to the arrival of the British colony. The first film adaptation of the book was a short by Tony Ingram, a fourteen-year-old filmmaker, who got permission from Joan Lindsay to adapt her book as "The Day of Saint Valentine." However, only about ten minutes of footage was filmed before the rights were optioned to Peter Weir for his more famous feature-length version, and the production was permanently shelved. The completed footage is included on some DVD releases of Weir's film. The feature film version of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" premiered at the Hindley Cinema
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with people who face some form of crisis after finding themselves isolated from society in some way – either physically ("Witness", "Mosquito Coast", "The Truman Show", "Master and Commander"), socially/culturally ("Picnic at Hanging Rock", "The Last Wave", "Dead Poets Society", "Green Card") or psychologically ("Fearless"). Weir's major breakthrough in Australia and internationally was the lush, atmospheric period mystery "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975), made with substantial backing from the state-funded South Australian Film Corporation and filmed on location in South Australia and rural Victoria. Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, the film relates the purportedly "true" story of a
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV series) Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian mystery romantic drama television series that premiered on Foxtel's Showcase on 6 May 2018. The series was adapted from Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel of the same name about a group of schoolgirls who, while on an outing to Hanging Rock, mysteriously disappear. Hester Appleyard purchases an isolated mansion out in the Australian bush to transform into a school for young ladies - a few months later, Appleyard College is a success. On Valentine's Day, 1900, when students and staff go for a picnic to Hanging Rock, three
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (film) Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery drama film which was produced by Hal and Jim McElroy, directed by Peter Weir, and starred Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, and Rachel Roberts. It was adapted by Cliff Green from the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, who was deliberately ambiguous about whether the events really took place, although the story is in fact entirely fictitious. The plot involves the disappearance of several schoolgirls and their teacher during a picnic at Hanging Rock, Victoria on Valentine's Day in 1900,
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel) Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian historical fiction novel by Joan Lindsay. Set in 1900, it is about a group of female students at an Australian girls' boarding school who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community. The novel was first published in 1967 in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was reprinted by Penguin in 1975. It is widely considered by critics to be one of the best Australian novels. Although the events depicted in the novel are entirely
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Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" performed by István Antal with the Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra. Traditional British songs "God Save the Queen" and "Men of Harlech" also appear. There is currently no official soundtrack commercially available. In 1976, CBS released a vinyl LP titled "A Theme from Picnic at Hanging Rock", a track of the same name and "Miranda's Theme". A 7" single was released in 1976 of the Picnic At Hanging Rock theme by the Nolan-Buddle Quartet. David Appleyard's cover of Bruce Smeaton's "Picnic At Hanging Rock (The Ascent Music)" was released in 2018. Weir recalled that when
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encore season of "Picnic at Hanging Rock" in early 2018. In 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation. The cast included Simon Burke, Penny Downie, Anna Skellern and Andi Snelling. On September 6, 2016, it was announced that Fremantle Media and pay-TV broadcaster Foxtel were producing a six-part miniseries, to be broadcast in 2017. The miniseries became available on Amazon Prime streaming on May 25, 2018. Research Theoretical analyses Adaptations Picnic at Hanging Rock (novel) Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian historical fiction novel by Joan Lindsay. Set in 1900, it is about a group of female students
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borrowed heavily from "Picnic at Hanging Rock" for her productions of "The Virgin Suicides" as well as "Marie Antoinette". Both films, like "Picnic at Hanging Rock", deal extensively with themes of death and femininity as well as adolescent perceptions of love and sexuality. Excerpts of the film's dialogue can be heard in the cello rock group Rasputina's song "Girls' School" which is featured on their album "Frustration Plantation". Rasputina's personal aesthetic has also been likened to "Picnic at Hanging Rock" by critics. American actress Chloë Sevigny has cited the film as an influence on her personal style. American television writer
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the rock, believed to have been part of the dress of the governess, Miss Greta McCraw, but neither she nor the girls were ever found. According to her editor Sandra Forbes, Lindsay's original draft of the novel included a final chapter in which the mystery was resolved. At her editor's suggestion, Lindsay removed it prior to publication. Chapter Eighteen, as it is known, was published posthumously as a standalone book in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock by Angus & Robertson Publishing. The chapter opens with Edith fleeing back to the picnic area while Miranda, Irma, and Marion push
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period of her career, to work as a negative cutter on such films as "Mad Max" (1979), "My Brilliant Career" (1979) and "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975). Margaret Cardin Margaret Cardin (1906–1998), more commonly known as Maggie Cardin, was an Australian film editor and negative cutter, who worked on films such as "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975), the original "Mad Max" (1979) and the sequel, ""(1981) Cardin was born in 1906 in London, to French parents. She attended school in England, being educated at a convent in London and she finished her schooling in France. Her mother died whilst on
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France, RTÉ in Ireland and Amazon Video in the United States. The series was also broadcast in Greece by ERT. Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV series) Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian mystery romantic drama television series that premiered on Foxtel's Showcase on 6 May 2018. The series was adapted from Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel of the same name about a group of schoolgirls who, while on an outing to Hanging Rock, mysteriously disappear. Hester Appleyard purchases an isolated mansion out in the Australian bush to transform into a school for young ladies - a few months later, Appleyard
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Damon Lindelof stated that the film was an influence on the second season of the television show "The Leftovers". Picnic at Hanging Rock (film) Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery drama film which was produced by Hal and Jim McElroy, directed by Peter Weir, and starred Vivean Gray, Dominic Guard, Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, and Rachel Roberts. It was adapted by Cliff Green from the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, who was deliberately ambiguous about whether the events really took place, although the story is in fact entirely fictitious. The plot involves the
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13 May 2016. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" grossed $5,120,000 in box office sales in Australia. This is equivalent to approximately $23,269,160 in 2016 Australian dollars. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" was first released on DVD in the Criterion Collection on 3 November 1998. This release featured a director's cut of the film with an entirely new transfer, a theatrical trailer and liner notes about the film. The same year, the film was also re-released theatrically, with Weir removing seven minutes from the film that apparently detracted from the narrative. The Criterion Collection re-released the director's cut on Blu-Ray on June 17,
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on the novel. Another book, titled "The Murders at Hanging Rock", was published in 1980, proposing varying interpretations. The novel has been adapted across numerous media, most famously in the 1975 critically acclaimed film of the same name by director Peter Weir. The novel begins with a brief foreword, which reads: At Appleyard College, an upper-class girl's private boarding school, a picnic is being planned for the students under the supervision of Mrs. Appleyard, the school's headmistress. The picnic entails a day trip to Hanging Rock, near Mount Macedon, Victoria, on St. Valentine's Day in 1900. One of the students,
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and the subsequent effect on the local community. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" was a commercial and critical success. At Appleyard College, a girls' private school, near the town of Woodend, Victoria, Australia, the students are dressing on the morning of Valentine's Day, 1900. Miranda (Anne-Louise Lambert), Irma (Karen Robson), Marion (Jane Vallis), Rosamund (Ingrid Mason), waifish Sara (Margaret Nelson), and outsider Edith (Christine Schuler) read poetry and Valentine's Day cards. The group prepares for a picnic to a local geological formation known as Hanging Rock, accompanied by the mathematics mistress Miss Greta McCraw (Vivean Gray) and the young and beautiful
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married to Iranian-born film director Ramin Niami and has two children. Karen Robson Karen Robson (born 19 March 1957) is an Australian film financier, producer and actress, best known for her portrayal of the mysterious brunette Irma in the Peter Weir cult classic "Picnic at Hanging Rock". She was born in Malacca, Malaysia. After "Picnic at Hanging Rock", Robson moved into film production which she has now worked in since 1986. She is now a partner at the Los Angeles branch of the entertainment law firm Pryor Cashman, where she opened an LA office, and specializes in film finance. Robson
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Karen Robson Karen Robson (born 19 March 1957) is an Australian film financier, producer and actress, best known for her portrayal of the mysterious brunette Irma in the Peter Weir cult classic "Picnic at Hanging Rock". She was born in Malacca, Malaysia. After "Picnic at Hanging Rock", Robson moved into film production which she has now worked in since 1986. She is now a partner at the Los Angeles branch of the entertainment law firm Pryor Cashman, where she opened an LA office, and specializes in film finance. Robson has helped produce films ranging from Nick Nolte's "Affliction" to Sylvester
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campaigned for new planning controls to protect the character of the region. A plethora of media reports has made reference to the influx of young professionals, artists and 'hipsters' to the region, drawn by the region's natural beauty, proximity to the city and access to city-style cafes and restaurants. The region's iconic landscapes and its proximity to Melbourne have made it a popular destination for film and television production. Macedon was depicted in "Picnic at Hanging Rock", the 1975 mystery movie based on the novel of the same name. Scenes in "Where the Wild Things Are" were filmed in the
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Lindsay would recount the experience of writing it as such: ""Picnic at Hanging Rock" really was an experience to write, because I was just impossible when I was writing it. I just sort of thought about it all night and in the morning I would go straight up and sit on the floor, papers all around me, and just write like a demon!" The novel was written over a total of two weeks at Lindsay's home in Mulberry Hill. In thinking of a title, Lindsay recalled the painting "At the Hanging Rock" by William Ford, which had hung in her
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by starting a "Miranda Must Go" campaign, criticising what she perceives is the novel's propagation of itself as a true story, while disparaging its relationship to local tourism at Hanging Rock. Spiers argued that the average tourist visits the site because they are aware of the novel, while they are ignorant of its historical connection with the Aborigines: At Hanging Rock we've become obsessed with the myth almost to the point where we sort of tell it as though it is a true story, but we completely ignore the true losses that have happened there. Most of the Aboriginal people
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Hanging Rock Reserve is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register as a place of historical, aesthetic and social significance to the State of Victoria. Hanging Rock Reserve is currently under review by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning to determine future governance and administrative arrangements for management of the site. Hanging Rock was the inspiration and setting for the novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock", written by Joan Lindsay and published in 1967. The novel dealt with the disappearance of a number of schoolgirls during a visit to the site. Their disappearance was explained in the final chapter, but
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guitar section starting at 3:28 in the original and ending at 3:38. The total length of the edited version is 3:23 whilst the original is 4:30. Too Late for Love (song) "Too Late for Love" is a 1983 power ballad by British hard rock band Def Leppard from their multi-platinum album "Pyromania". When released as a single, it reached #9 on the Mainstream Rock charts. The music video, filmed in December 1983, was taken from a Christmas music special called "Supersonic". According to the text commentary in the video "Historia", the performance was filmed after hanging out with Elton John
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Curtin. The town also has registered teams in cricket, Australian rules football, lawn bowls, tennis and netball. Macedon is often known as the town from "Picnic at Hanging Rock", the 1975 mystery movie based on the novel of the same name. Parts of the 2009 Nicolas Cage film "Knowing" was shot around Macedon, most notably the local petrol station which was renovated to appear more like an American gas station. Most of the film was also shot nearby in Mount Macedon. The television series 'Chris Humfrey's Wild Life' was filmed in Macedon. The series aired in March 2011 on the
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Lindsay deleted this chapter at the suggestion of her editor, thinking the mystery was greater without it. The novel inspired the film "Picnic at Hanging Rock", made in 1975 and directed by Peter Weir. The success of the film was responsible for a substantial increase in visits to the rock and a renewal of interest in the novel. Yvonne Rousseau wrote a book called "The Murders at Hanging Rock", published in 1980, which examined possible explanations for the disappearance of the girls. The deleted final chapter of the novel was finally published in 1987 after the death of Joan Lindsay.
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Complex in Adelaide on 8 August 1975. It became an early film of the Australian New Wave and is arguably Australia's first international hit film. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" was adapted by playwright Laura Annawyn Shamas in 1987 and published by Dramatic Publishing Company. Subsequently, it has had many productions in the US, Canada, and Australia. There have also been musical adaptations of the novel. A stage-musical adaptation, with book, music, and lyrics by Daniel Zaitchik, was scheduled to open in New York City in the fall of 2012. The musical received a 2007 staged reading at New York's Lincoln
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was the first Australian drama to receive an Emmy nomination. In 1981 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced "I Can Jump Puddles", a mini-series written by Cliff Green based on Alan Marshall's autobiographical stories. 1976 - AWGIE (Best Screenplay) 1979 - 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' Nominated for a Saturn Award (Best Writing) 1990 - AWG Richard Lane Award 1991 - International Emmy nomination for the screenplay of 'Boy Soldiers' 2009 - Order Of Australia Medal Cliff Green Cliff Green (born 6 Dec 1934, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian screen writer, whose best known work is "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975). He
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Conan Doyle and his belief in and theories about Spiritualism, nature and the existence of spirits." The novel was imported for sale in the United States, and would receive its first publication there in 2014 by Penguin Random House. In the United Kingdom, the novel was printed in several editions by Vintage, in 1998 and 2013. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" is written in the form of a true story, and even begins and ends with a pseudohistorical prologue and epilogue, reinforcing the mystery that has generated significant critical and public interest since its publication in 1967. However, while the geological
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full mourning dress with her possessions packed. Michael tells Albert he has decided to travel north, with Albert revealing he had a dream in which his lost sister Sara visited him. During a flashback to the picnic scene, Sgt. Bumpher states in a voice over that the body of Mrs Appleyard was found at the base of Hanging Rock from an apparent suicide. The search for the missing schoolgirls and Miss McCraw continued sporadically for several years without success. Their disappearance is left as an unsolved mystery. The novel was published in 1967. Reading it four years later, Patricia Lovell
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"The Secret at Hanging Rock" contains discussion by other authors, including John Taylor and Yvonne Rousseau. The suspension of the corsets and description of the hole in space suggest that the girls have encountered some sort of time warp, which is compatible with Lindsay's fascination with and emphasis on clocks and time in the novel. The transformations into animals recalls traditional Indigenous Australian beliefs. Lindsay claimed to have written the novel based on an idea she had in a dream. In a 2017 article in "The Age", it was noted: "The dream had centred on a summer picnic at a
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in 2013 as part of the "Penguin Australian Classics" series. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" is considered by many critics to be one of the best Australian novels. Much of the critical and scholarly interest in the novel has centered on its mysterious conclusion, as well as its depiction of Australia's natural environment in contrast with the Victorian population of the newly established British colony. In 1987, literary scholar Donald Bartlett drew comparisons between Lindsay's treatment of the rock with that of Malabar Hill in E. M. Forster's "A Passage to India", which has been interpreted as a metaphor for Pan,
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vanishes, only to be found days later, having apparently committed suicide (her body was found directly beneath the school's tower, with her head "crushed beyond recognition"). Mrs. Appleyard, distraught over the events that have occurred, kills herself by jumping from a peak on Hanging Rock. In a pseudo-historical afterword purportedly extracted from a 1913 Melbourne newspaper article, it is written that both the college and the Woodend Police Station, where records of the investigation were kept, were destroyed by a bush fire in the summer of 1901. In 1903, rabbit hunters came across a lone piece of frilled calico at
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to turn it into a five-star luxury resort. However, the National Trust bid to stop private developers taking control of the Hall because they wanted the estate to remain in public hands and be accessible to everyone. The iconic and award-winning Australian film, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", was partially filmed at Martindale Hall in 1975. The Hall remains open to the public and attracts about 100,000 visitors annually. Located about 3 km to the west of Mintaro is the heritage listed Kadlunga, a mixed-farming property with a combined area of around 4,200 hectares. Kadlunga has been described as one of
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Roger Ebert calling it "a film of haunting mystery and buried sexual hysteria" and remarked that it "employs two of the hallmarks of modern Australian films: beautiful cinematography and stories about the chasm between settlers from Europe and the mysteries of their ancient new home." Cliff Green stated in interview that "Writing the film and later through its production, did I—or anyone else—predict that it would become Australia's most loved movie? We always knew it was going to be good—but that good? How could we?" "Picnic at Hanging Rock" has an approval rating of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes as of
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Break of Day (film) Break of Day is a 1976 Australian film set immediately after World War I. In the 1920s, young war veteran Tom Cooper lives in the small town of Tetlow with his pregnant wife. He falls in love with visiting artist Alice Hughes, but their relationship is threatened by the arrival of Alice's bohemian friends from the city. The script was an original by Cliff Green who had adapted "Picnic at Hanging Rock" for Pat Lovell. Green gave her a copy of the script on the last day of "Picnic"s shoot and she was immediately interested. Lovell:
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the Strathalbyn Rotary Club's renowned Duck Race, the Strathalbyn Show, and the collaborative Street Parade and Carols by Candlelight. There is also a Sunday market, once per month, at the railway station. In 1975, street scenes from the film "Picnic at Hanging Rock" were filmed in the town. Strathalbyn, South Australia Strathalbyn is a town in South Australia, in the Alexandrina Council. As of 2016, the town had a population of approximately 6,500. Strathalbyn is 60 km southeast of Adelaide on the banks of the River Angas. The Children's Bridge is a pedestrian bridge over the river in the park.
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theatrical trailer as a special feature. Break of Day (film) Break of Day is a 1976 Australian film set immediately after World War I. In the 1920s, young war veteran Tom Cooper lives in the small town of Tetlow with his pregnant wife. He falls in love with visiting artist Alice Hughes, but their relationship is threatened by the arrival of Alice's bohemian friends from the city. The script was an original by Cliff Green who had adapted "Picnic at Hanging Rock" for Pat Lovell. Green gave her a copy of the script on the last day of "Picnic"s shoot
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of event attendance of all states and territories with 49% of South Australians aged 15 years and over attending a sporting event each year. The internationally acclaimed "Picnic at Hanging Rock" was filmed in the rural areas of the state. Culture of South Australia The culture of South Australia reflects the culture of Australia as a whole. The state has a variety of wine producing regions including the popular tourist destination Barossa Valley. The majority of the population is focused in and around the Adelaide metropolitan area. The geographical landmass varies widely, and a significant portion of Adelaide's terrain is
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place called Hanging Rock, which Joan knew well from her childhood holidays. Joan told Rae [her housekeeper] that the dream had felt so real that when she awoke at 7.30am, she could still feel the hot summer breeze blowing through the gum trees and she could still hear the peals of laughter and conversation of the people she'd imagined, and their gaiety and lightness of spirit as they set out on their joyful picnic expedition." According to her housekeeper at the time, the events of the novel were dreamt by Lindsay successively. Several years after the publication of the novel,
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"Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "Ten Canoes". Prominent Australian trained filmed artists include Errol Flynn, Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett. Notable institutions for the arts include the UNESCO listed Sydney Opera House, the National Gallery of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney. The arts in Australia, including the fields of cinema, music, visual arts, theatre, dance and crafts often reflect general trends in Western arts. However, the arts as practiced by indigenous Australians represent a unique Australian cultural tradition, and Australia's landscape and history have
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been its occupants for, potentially, thousands of years and, colonisation notwithstanding, have continued to maintain cultural and spiritual connections with the place. To the settler colonialist society, Hanging Rock became a place for recreation and tourism. It came alternately under private, government, and mixed public-private control. In the late 20th century, the area became very widely known as the setting of Joan Lindsay's novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock". Hanging Rock is a mamelon, created 6.25 million years ago by stiff magma pouring from a vent and congealing in place. Often thought to be a volcanic plug, it is not. Two
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the Greek god of the wild: "There is more, of course, to "A Passage to India" than Pan motifs, for example symbols such as the snake, the wasp and the undying worm, not to mention the vast panorama of India's religions. But I believe it probable that Joan Lindsay consciously borrowed the elements [from "A Passage to India"]." Literary scholar Kathleen Steele argues in her essay "Fear and Loathing in the Australian Bush: Gothic Landscapes in Bush Studies and "Picnic at Hanging Rock"" that the novel's treatment of landscape and its missing characters is reflective of Australia's national history and
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with Albert, he conducts another search of Hanging Rock. Despite Albert's protests, Michael decides to remain overnight and begins climbing again the next day, leaving a trail of paper. When Albert follows the markers, he finds a nearly catatonic Michael. Just before leaving on a buggy with a local doctor, Michael passes to Albert a fragment of lace from a dress. Albert returns to Hanging Rock and discovers Irma, unconscious but alive. The residents of Woodend become restless as news of the discovery spreads. At the Fitzhubert home, Irma is treated for dehydration and exposure, and tells the police and
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minutes later by a young Englishman, Michael Fitzhubert (Dominic Guard), who is lunching at the Rock with his uncle Colonel Fitzhubert (Peter Collingwood), aunt Mrs. Fitzhubert (Olga Dickie), and valet Albert (John Jarratt). At the top of Hanging Rock, the group lies on the ground, apparently dazed by the sun. Miss McCraw, still at the base of the Rock, stares up. Miranda, Marion, and Irma awaken and move, as if in a trance, into a recess in the rock face. Edith, who watches them, screams and flees down the Rock in terror. The distraught and hysterical party eventually returns to
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title music was derived from two traditional Romanian panpipe pieces: "Doina: Sus Pe Culmea Dealului" and "Doina Lui Petru Unc" with Romanian Gheorghe Zamfir playing the panpipe (or panflute) and Swiss born Marcel Cellier the organ. Australian composer Bruce Smeaton also provided several original compositions (The Ascent Music and The Rock) written for the film. Other classical additions included Bach's Prelude No. 1 in C from "The Well-Tempered Clavier" performed by Jenő Jandó; the Romance movement from Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"; the Andante Cantabile movement from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 1, Op. 11, and the "Adagio un poco mosso" from
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and the surrounding area as a campground where they built a series of mounds. These original Native Americans eventually abandoned the area. After being uninhabited for a number of years the Piankashaw Indians settled in the area after the arrival of the French. One source states that Hanging Rock at one time had substantial Indian relics and ancient Indian mound sites. Another source, states that there once existed a village of about 40 wigwams of the Oujatanons at Hanging Rock. After the treaties signed between the Indians and William Henry Harrison were concluded, Thomas S. Hinde purchased Hanging Rock and
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were period films, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "The Getting of Wisdom", "Between Wars". I felt this reflected a society that was unable to come to terms with where it was at. I know you have to look into the past and find your heroes but it seemed to me that it was reflective of a desire not to face up to where we were at. That also coincided with where I was at personally in my relationship to women and to Haydn [former collaborator Haydn Keenan], so I thought I should make a film about leaving the past behind and
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Margaret Cardin Margaret Cardin (1906–1998), more commonly known as Maggie Cardin, was an Australian film editor and negative cutter, who worked on films such as "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975), the original "Mad Max" (1979) and the sequel, ""(1981) Cardin was born in 1906 in London, to French parents. She attended school in England, being educated at a convent in London and she finished her schooling in France. Her mother died whilst on the "RMS Titanic", the cruise ship that struck a large iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean on its maiden voyage in 1912. Cardin worked in the technical area
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Friends of Hanging Rock, noted that the novel and particularly, the character of Miranda, captured the "ethereal, mysterious nature of the rock"; he also suggested the novel and character should remain part of the "broader tapestry" of the site: The novel was first printed in Australia by F. W. Cheshire, released on 1 November 1967. It was reprinted in paperback by Penguin Books' Australian division in 1975, printed in conjunction with the release of the film adaptation. A hardback illustrated edition was also printed in Australia in 1987, also by Penguin. It would receive another reprinting by Penguin Books Australia
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cast no shadows. She and the girls continue together. The girls then encounter what is described as "a hole in space," by which they physically enter a crack in the rock following a lizard; the unnamed woman transforms into a crab and disappears into the rock. Marion follows her, then Miranda, but when Irma's turn comes, a balanced boulder (the hanging rock) slowly tilts and blocks the way. The chapter ends with Irma "tearing and beating at the gritty face on the boulder with her bare hands." The missing material amounts to about 12 pages; the remainder of the publication
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the rock in search of the three girls and their teacher, but they are not found. The disappearances provoke much local concern and international sensation with rape, abduction, and murder being assumed as probable explanations. Several organized searches of the picnic grounds and the area surrounding the rock itself turn up nothing. Meanwhile, the students, teachers and staff of the college, as well as members of the community, grapple with the riddle-like events. Mike Fitzhubert embarks on a private search of the rock and discovers Irma, unconscious and on the verge of death. When he fails to return from his
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Center, and further workshop development at the 2009 O'Neill Theater Center National Music Theater Conference. The musical had its world premiere on 28 February 2014 at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah under the direction of Jim Christian. In 2016, the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne showed a stage adaptation dramatized by Tom Wright and directed by Matthew Lutton. The production was later staged at The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland in January 2017. The overseas production worked alongside the original Australian theatre makers Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne as well as Black Swan State Theatre Company. The Malthouse Theatre presented an
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Mlle. de Poitiers (Helen Morse). On the authority of the stern headmistress Mrs. Appleyard (Rachel Roberts), jittery teacher Miss Lumley (Kirsty Child) advises Sara that she is not allowed to attend. Driven by buggy operator Ben Hussey (Martin Vaughan), the party passes through and arrives at the Rock by mid-afternoon. After a meal, Mr Hussey notes his watch has stopped at the stroke of twelve, as has the watch of Miss McCraw. With permission from Mlle. de Poitiers, Miranda, Marion and Irma decide to explore Hanging Rock and take measurements, with Edith allowed to follow. The group is observed several
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on March 29. Appleyard College was to some extent based on Clyde Girls' Grammar School at East St Kilda, Melbourne, which Joan Lindsay attended as a day-girl while in her teens. Incidentally, in 1919 this school was transferred to the town of Woodend, Victoria, about 8 km southwest of Hanging Rock. When asked in a 1974 interview about whether or not the novel was based in truth, Lindsay responded: "Well, it was written as a mystery and it remains a mystery. If you can draw your own conclusions, that's fine, but I don't think that it matters. I wrote that
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for the story's fictional school, "Appleyard College". In 1987, the final chapter or sequel to "Picnic at Hanging Rock" titled The Secret of Hanging Rock, was launched at a media event at Braemar College. In 1987, The Australian 60 Minutes program televised a debate at the school on the abortion issue featuring students and community figures on either side of the debate (including notorious pro-life campaigner Margaret Tighe). Braemar College Braemar College is an ecumenical co-curricular private school located on Mount Macedon in Woodend, Victoria, Australia. Initially the school's board consisted of representatives from the three local municipalities (Shire of
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school's main building (Wairoa) appears as the home of Col. and Mrs. Fitzhubert in the iconic Australian film "Picnic at Hanging Rock". Marbury School, Aldgate Marbury School was a private non-denominational co-educational R-12 progressive school located in the Adelaide Hills at Aldgate, South Australia. Marbury was conceived as an incorporated non-profit association with a Board of Governors, who declared at the school’s outset that it was a "co-educational, non-sectarian, independent, non-competitive, non-authoritarian school". The name is a portmanteau of Margaret (Edhouse/Langley), Burwell (Dodd), and Harry (Edhouse) who were the original founders. Margaret was the Principal, and the Dodds provided much
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well known for its depiction in the Joan Lindsay novel Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967). This novel was concerned with an ill-fated excursion to nearby Hanging Rock by girls from the local boarding school. In 1975 the novel was made into a film directed by Peter Weir which became very successful both in Australia and overseas. At the time of release, the association with Clyde School was noted in the press. The film's producers chose Martindale Hall, in South Australia (with school buildings more typical of a 19th-century English public school than the former alpine chalet styled guesthouse) to stand
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Bruce Smeaton Bruce Smeaton (born 5 March 1938) is an Australian composer who is well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres, including features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "Seven Little Australians", "Roxanne", "Iceman", and "Circle of Iron". He has won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Best Original Music Score award for "The Cars That Ate Paris" (1974), "The Great Macarthy" (1975), "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" (1978) and "Street Hero" (1984, shared with Garth Porter and others). Smeaton was born in Brighton, Victoria. His music has
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book as a sort of atmosphere of a place, and it was like dropping a stone into the water. I felt that story, if you call it a story—that the thing that happened on St. Valentine's Day went on spreading, out and out and out, in circles." The unresolved mystery of the disappearances in the novel aroused enough lasting public interest that in 1980 a book of hypothetical solutions (by Yvonne Rousseau) was published, called "The Murders at Hanging Rock". In 2017, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the novel's publication, an Australian doctoral student Amy Spiers gained attention
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unstructured and free. This was followed with "Facts Soft and Hard", a humorous, semi-autobiographical account of the Lindsays' travels in the United States while Daryl was on a Fulbright Award, which took the couple to New York City on a study tour of American art collections held by the Carnegie Corporation. "Picnic at Hanging Rock", published in 1967, is Lindsay's best known work. Lindsay wrote the novel over a four-week period at her home Mulberry Hill in Baxter, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, and constructed it around the real-life Hanging Rock, a monolith that had fascinated her since her childhood. She
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Sara, who is in trouble with Mrs. Appleyard, is not allowed to go. Sara's close friend Miranda goes without her. When they arrive, the students lounge about and eat a lunch. Afterward, Miranda goes to climb the monolith with classmates Edith, Irma, and Marion. The girls' mathematics teacher, Greta McCraw, follows behind them. As they ascend the rock, in a dreamlike episode, Miranda, Marion, and Irma vanish into the rock while Edith watches; she returns to the picnic in hysterics, disoriented and with no memory of what occurred. Miss McCraw is also nowhere to be accounted for. The school scours
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fictional, it is framed as though it is a true story, corroborated by ambiguous pseudohistorical references. Its irresolute conclusion has sparked significant public, critical, and scholarly analysis, and the narrative has become a part of Australia's national folklore as a result. Lindsay claimed to have written the novel over two weeks at her home Mulberry Hill in Baxter, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, after having successive dreams of the narrated events. An excised final chapter of the novel was published posthumously as a standalone book in 1987, titled "The Secret of Hanging Rock", and also included critical commentary and interpretive theories
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2014. It includes a paperback copy of the novel and many supplemental features, most of which are not available on international releases. The film was later released in a special 3-disc set on 30 June 2008 in the United Kingdom. This set included the director's cut and a longer original version, interviews with filmmakers and book author Joan Lindsay, poster and still galleries, a 120-minute documentary and deleted scenes. UK distributor Second Sights Films also released the film on Blu-ray on 26 July 2010. In Australia it was released on DVD by Umbrella Entertainment in August 2007, and re-released in
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The anger by the local community over this issue led to 7 of 9 councillors being voted out in the following elections. Hanging Rock is the centrepiece for the Hanging Rock Recreation Reserve, a public reserve managed by the Macedon Ranges Shire Council. The reserve includes a horse racing track, picnic grounds, creek, interpretation centre and cafe. The reserve is a habitat for endemic flora and fauna, including koalas, wallabies, possums, phascogales, wedge-tailed eagles and kookaburras. The reserve is open to the public during daylight hours seven days a week. Entry is charged per vehicle. Camping is possible by arrangement.
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made up of several small communities, some having their own churches, schools, School of Arts building, general stores and hotels. Today Hanging Rock has a community hall, a New South Wales Rural Fire Service station and a few homes. The main industry is agriculture and tourism. In the 2006 census there were 195 persons usually resident in Hanging Rock. The Lookout, about 1 km off the Nundle Road, offers a scenic vantage point with excellent views of the Nundle valley below. Sheba Dams, south of the village, is an interesting spot for an outing with picnic and barbecue facilities in
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Anne-Louise Lambert Anne-Louise Lambert (born 21 August 1956) (also credited as Anne Lambert) is an Australian actress whose acting career began with her role in "Number 96" in 1973. Born Anne Louise Lambert in Brisbane, Australia she later moved to Sydney. Under the name Anne Lambert she first gained recognition on Australian television with roles in three soap operas and in her role in "Picnic at Hanging Rock". In 1973 she played nymphomaniac Sue Marshall in "Number 96". The following year she was an original cast member in school-based drama "Class of '74", playing a student Peggy Richardson. Director Peter
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here is a selection of works for which Smeaton composed music. Bruce Smeaton Bruce Smeaton (born 5 March 1938) is an Australian composer who is well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres, including features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include "Picnic at Hanging Rock", "Seven Little Australians", "Roxanne", "Iceman", and "Circle of Iron". He has won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Best Original Music Score award for "The Cars That Ate Paris" (1974), "The Great Macarthy" (1975), "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" (1978) and "Street Hero" (1984, shared with Garth Porter
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feature, Hanging Rock, and the several towns mentioned are actual places near Mount Macedon, the story itself is entirely fictitious. Lindsay had done little to dispel the myth that the story is based on truth, in many interviews either refusing to confirm it was entirely fiction, or hinting that parts of the book were fictitious and that others were not. The dates named in the novel do not correspond to actual dates in the 1900 calendar. For instance, Valentine's Day, 14 February 1900, occurred on a Wednesday, not a Saturday; similarly, Easter Sunday fell on April 15 in 1900, not
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a 2-disc Collector's Edition in May 2011. This edition includes special features such as the various theatrical trailers, poster and still galleries, documentaries and interviews with cast, crew and Joan Lindsay. It was released on Blu-ray by Umbrella Entertainment with a newly restored print, the feature-length documentary "A Dream Within A Dream", a 25-minute on-set documentary, "A Recollection: Hanging Rock 1900" and the theatrical trailer on 12 May 2010. The film has gone on to inspire other more recent artists, who have come to regard the film for its themes as well as its unique visuals. Director Sofia Coppola has
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the relationship between the rock and the Aboriginal population: "The silence surrounding Aborigines, and the manner in which Europeans foregrounded "geographical, historical and cultural difference and discontinuity," yet denied Aborigines either presence or history, created a gothic consciousness of "something deeply unknowable and terrifying in the Australian landscape. .. Lindsay provokes a reflection on the understanding of Australia as an un-peopled land where nothing of consequence occurred until the British gave it a history." Steele further notes that Lindsay's "gothic landscapes raise doubts that the majority [of Australians] ever subscribed" to the notion that the country and its natural environment
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the College, where Mlle. de Poitiers explains to Mrs Appleyard that Miss McCraw has been left behind. Sara notes the absence of Miranda; and Mr. Hussey explains to Mrs Appleyard that Miranda, Irma, Marion, and Miss McCraw went missing. A search party, led by Sgt. Bumpher (Wyn Roberts) and Constable Jones (Garry McDonald) of the local police, finds nothing, although Edith reveals that she witnessed Miss McCraw climbing the Rock without her skirt. Michael Fitzhubert is questioned and reveals that he watched the schoolgirls, but can provide no clues as to their whereabouts. Michael becomes obsessed with finding Miranda; and,
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landmark for Native Americans in what was once a dense forest. In 1881, the rock, known at the time as Lone Rock, was part of the 160-acre farm of William Weedin. An anonymous 1881 letter to the Seattle "Daily Intelligencer" about a Fourth of July picnic at the rock described it as "in a dense forest" on Weedin's land, and as "a single rock in circumference and in height, rather oval-shaped, covered with a solid network of moss and interspersed with liquorice, with its graceful fern-shaped foliage hanging in festoons around it." This rock has an estimated mass of 700
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same name in 1927 and 1948. The title phrase is sometimes used colloquially to indicate a disheveled appearance. For example, in the film "The Big Circus" (1959), one character tells another: "I didn't bring the rain, and you're beginning to look like the wreck of the Hesperus." The poem has also been mentioned in other works. For example, in the 1975 Australian film, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", the headmistress forbids a student from participating in a school outing because she has failed to memorize lines from the poem (although in the original novel, the headmistress wrongly attributes the poem to
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She was secretary to the Administrator of the Australian Ballet, Dame Peggy van Praagh, and personal assistant to Sir Robert Helpmann and Rudolf Nureyev. Hal was production manager for the film company. They married in 1975, and had their honeymoon at the Cannes Film Festival, where "Picnic at Hanging Rock" was being exhibited. They have three children. Hal and Jim had always lived together, and this continued even after Hal married Di. In 1977, a light and sound spectacular called Laserdome, in which the three McElroys had invested heavily, failed within three days and they lost their house and all
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she was influenced by atmospheric thrillers such as "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "Don't Look Now" while directing her debut feature, "Texas Killing Fields". Its imagery has been directly referenced in several works. The 2006 James Bond film, "Casino Royale" contains a small homage where James Bond pursues a female character through Venice, catching glimpses of her through the crowds wearing a red dress. The Bruges set thriller, "In Bruges", starring Colin Farrell, includes a number of explicit references; director Martin McDonagh said that the "Venice of "Don't Look Now"" was the template for the depiction of Bruges in his
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Vivean Gray Jean Vivra Gray (20 July 1924 – 29 July 2016), known professionally as Vivean Gray, was an Australian television and film actress. She appeared in the film "Picnic at Hanging Rock", but her best-known roles were in TV soap operas, including: Ida Jessup in "The Sullivans", Edna Pearson in "Prisoner" and Nell Mangel in "Neighbours". She retired in 1988, moving back to her native England to Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, where she lived a quiet and private life. Gray was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, on 20 July 1924. Gray was the daughter of Allan Gray and Doris Gray, who
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for "Room". In 2016, TIFF announced they had selected Cividino as their annual Len Blum resident, where he will develop his short film "We Ate the Children Last" into a feature film. Cividino has listed numerous films and filmmakers as influences for his work, including Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock", Mike Nichols' "The Graduate", and Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank". Andrew Cividino Andrew Cividino (born 1983) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature film directorial debut "Sleeping Giant", which premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Originally from Dundas, Ontario, Cividino frequently spent
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two Arabesques, "Nuages" and "Sirènes" from the suite "Nocturnes", and "La fille aux cheveux de lin", with the addition of Bernard Herrmann's "Jennie's Theme" to a song featured in Nathan's book ("Where I came from, nobody knows, and where I am going everyone goes"), utilizing a theremin. Herrmann was assigned the original composing duties for the film but left during its extended shooting schedule. A scene of Jennie and Eben having a picnic after witnessing the ceremony in the convent, features in the original screenplay. It was filmed but deleted when it looked as if Jennie's hair was blending into
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time in the past. It lies on the original road from Florencecourt to Blacklion and local folklore states that it landed on top of a wandering salt merchant who was travelling along the road at the time. It is said that whenever the rock was found the next day that there was a ring of salt surrounding it. The rock became known as the Salter's Stone, or Cloghogue. Hanging Rock, County Fermanagh Hanging Rock is a large limestone cliff with an obtuse angle. It is located beside the village of Florencecourt in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, and is part of
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however, occur later when she travelled to a nearby county to receive an award. Allan scoured the woodland surrounding the lake, and found the atmosphere it invoked not too different from what she imagined it would be prior to her visit. She found that its "overgrown and less frequented pathways just begging to be included in a some weird novel or other". Allan cited Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock" as a major influence on "The Rift". As with alien abductions, where a gulf opens between abduction claimants and friends and family who do not, or cannot, believe
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starring Josh Brolin, Gretchen Mol, Bonnie Bedelia, Jay O. Sanders, and Mary Steenburgen. The screenplay adaptation by Shelley Evans was directed by Ivan Passer. Picnic (1955 film) Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in Cinemascope. It was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Joshua Logan, director of the original Broadway stage production, directed the film version, which stars William Holden, Kim Novak, and Rosalind Russell, with Susan Strasberg and Cliff Robertson in supporting roles. "Picnic" was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture,
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Picnic (1955 film) Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in Cinemascope. It was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Joshua Logan, director of the original Broadway stage production, directed the film version, which stars William Holden, Kim Novak, and Rosalind Russell, with Susan Strasberg and Cliff Robertson in supporting roles. "Picnic" was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won two. The film dramatizes 24 hours in the life of a small Kansas town in the mid-20th century. It revolves around the
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Dysfunctional Family Picnic Dysfunctional Family Picnic was a multi-artist alternative rock concert, presented annually by the New York City, New York, USA radio station K-Rock, beginning in 1997. Its West Coast "sister" concert is the KROQ Weenie Roast. There have been various venues that hosted the Dysfunctional Family Picnic including Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens, New York, PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, Giants Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey and Jones Beach Amphitheatre in Wantagh, New York. In 2003, the Dysfunctional Family Pinic was called "DFP 7-Tarium". Instead of booking an original show, it was just
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and soundtracks from both the novel and the film, while the real history of the monolith and its significance to the indigenous culture was less acknowledged. She asked people to support her campaign by attending a protest there on St. Valentine's Day 2017. The campaign attracted attention in 2017, with some carryover to 2018, such as an article by Barry Kennerk, a grade school teacher in Ireland, highlighting numerous aspects of the 'troubling history associated with the rock', agreeing that the local museum should expand its information about Aboriginal history. In response to the campaign, Luke Spielvogel, the president of
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search, he is found in an unexplained daze, sitting at the rock with Irma, by his friend and uncle's coachman, Albert Crundall. Concerned parents begin withdrawing their daughters from the prestigious college, prompting various staff to leave; the college's handyman and maid quit their jobs, and the French instructor, Mlle. Dianne de Poitiers, announces that she will be getting married and leaving the college as well. A junior governess at the college, Dora Lumley, also leaves with her brother Reg, only for both to be killed in a hotel fire. Amidst the unrest both in and around the college, Sara
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The Paddington Frisk "The Paddington Frisk" is a single by British rock band Enter Shikari. The music video was released on their YouTube channel on 4 April 2013 and the single was released on 4 April 2013. The music video was filmed in London by Kode Media under the direction of Jamie Korn and released on 5 April 2013 The video showcases the band on a Japanese game show where a girl gives a man in a crocodile suit a noose and the band performs a choreographed dance miming hanging themselves. At the end of the video, the camera pans
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corridor of land, and it is associated with nearby Horne Creek Living Historical Farm. The curved depression between the ridge slope to the Little Pinnacle and then to the round knob of the Big Pinnacle gives the entire mountain an even more distinctive shape from a distance. Other interesting rock formations are to the east at privately held Sauratown Mountain, and the higher complex at Hanging Rock State Park. The Jomeokee Trail leads around the base of Big Pinnacle. The Ledge Spring Trail goes past a large picnic area and down along the ridge crest; its lower loop back up
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No Picnic No Picnic is a film written and directed by Philip Hartman. It was filmed in black and white at New York in 1985 and was released the next year, in the Sundance Film Festival, where it won Excellence In Cinematography Award Dramatic. Described as "a cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrified New York", the film captures the East Village of the 80s. Providing the soundtrack are such performers as "The Raunch Hands", Lenny Kaye, Charles Mingus, Fela Kuti, Richard Hell and "Student Teachers". It stars Richard Hell, Judith Malina, Luis Guzmán and Steve Buscemi. Failed musician Macabee Cohen
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Larysa Kondracki Larysa Kondracki is a Canadian producer, director and screenwriter. Her debut feature film, "The Whistleblower", was released in 2011 and received nominations for six Genies at the 32nd Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Kondracki was originally from Toronto, Kondracki studied English literature and theatre at McGill University, and later completed an MFA in film directing at Columbia University. She is also a director on the AMC series "The Walking Dead" and "Better Call Saul". She was chosen to direct episodes of the iconic Australian story of Picnic at Hanging Rock (TV series) and this proved
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Lucian Moraru, jazz standards, and well-known favourites. In 2009, Zamfir was sampled by Animal Collective in the song "Graze" on their EP Fall Be Kind. In 2012, Zamfir performed at the opening ceremony of the 11th Conference of Parties to the Ramsar Convention at the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania. His first appearance as soloist interpreter in a movie soundtrack was in Vladimir Cosma's 1972 "Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire", whose soundtrack became a worldwide hit. Another of his notable contributions was to the soundtrack of the classic 1975 Australian film "Picnic at Hanging Rock". His
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sharing a Melbourne studio with Maie Ryan (later Lady Casey). Joan exhibited her watercolours and oils at two Melbourne exhibitions in 1920, one of which was titled "The Neo-Pantechnicists" and exhibited with the Victorian Artists Society. She and Casey also collaborated on an unfinished book together, titled "Portrait of Anna". While studying at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, she met fellow art student Daryl Lindsay. The two married in Marylebone, London, England on St. Valentine's Day 1922. The day was always a special occasion for her, and she set her most famous work, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", on
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(David Brisbin), makes his living servicing jukeboxes in the neighborhood, while in the search for the woman of his dreams. The obvious gentrification around is distressing and highlights his ill-fated life. His frustration increases when faced with individuals who remind him of his former aspirations. No Picnic No Picnic is a film written and directed by Philip Hartman. It was filmed in black and white at New York in 1985 and was released the next year, in the Sundance Film Festival, where it won Excellence In Cinematography Award Dramatic. Described as "a cinematic love letter to a pre-gentrified New York",
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in Australia. Joan Lindsay Joan à Beckett Lindsay (16 November 189623 December 1984), also known as Lady Lindsay, was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, Lindsay published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled "Through Darkest Pondelayo". Her second novel, "Time Without Clocks", was published nearly thirty years later, and was a semi-autobiographical account of her early married years to artist Daryl Lindsay. In 1967, Lindsay published her most celebrated work, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", a historical Gothic novel detailing the vanishing
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Joan Lindsay Joan à Beckett Lindsay (16 November 189623 December 1984), also known as Lady Lindsay, was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, Lindsay published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a pseudonym, a satirical novel titled "Through Darkest Pondelayo". Her second novel, "Time Without Clocks", was published nearly thirty years later, and was a semi-autobiographical account of her early married years to artist Daryl Lindsay. In 1967, Lindsay published her most celebrated work, "Picnic at Hanging Rock", a historical Gothic novel detailing the vanishing of three
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on. Each girl begins to experience dizziness and feel as if she is "being pulled from the inside out." A woman suddenly appears climbing the rock in her underwear, shouting "Through!", and then faints. This woman is not referenced by name and is apparently a stranger to the girls, yet the narration suggests she is Miss McCraw. Miranda loosens the woman's corset to help revive her. Afterwards, the girls remove their own corsets and throw them off the cliff. The recovered woman points out that the corsets appear to hover in mid-air as if stuck in time, and that they
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living in that area died of smallpox or were murdered by colonists or removed to Coranderrk [Aboriginal Reserve in Healesville] in 1836 ... It's just fascinating to me that we keep choosing to be haunted by a [fictitious] story rather than the real losses that have occurred in that place. Spiers cited the common practice among tourists to scream "Miranda!" from atop the rock as an example of the site's strong cultural associations with the novel and its film adaptation; she also noted that the visitors' centre caters significantly to the myth of the "missing schoolgirls", with dioramas, videos, panels
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Mlle. de Poitiers she has no memory of what happened. A servant girl notes that Irma's corset is missing but is advised by Mrs Fitzhubert that it is not important. Michael befriends the recovered Irma but alienates her when he demands to know what happened on the Rock. Mrs Appleyard advises Miss Lumley that several parents have withdrawn their children from the school. Before leaving for Europe, Irma visits her classmates a final time; but they become hysterical and demand to know what happened to their missing friends. Mlle. de Poitiers intervenes; and, as Irma flees, she also notices that
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"Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "Breaker Morant". In 1976, the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act gave the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal peoples inalienable freehold title over 100,000 km of their land. That same year, South Australia appointed the first Aboriginal governor of an Australian state when Sir Douglas Nicholls was made Governor of South Australia. In 1987, copper, gold, and silver production began at the Olympic Dam mine. Olympic Dam also possesses the world's largest known deposit of uranium. During the commercial property boom of the 1980s the State Bank of South Australia was the fastest growing bank in Australia –
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