Peter Weir
Midnight Oil to a ‘jaw-dropping’ Demi Moore: 15 highlights of the Sydney Film Festival
From Cannes award winners to local documentaries and big-name stars, these are the festival’s top picks.
- Garry Maddox
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Step inside the otherworldly mind of Picnic at Hanging Rock’s author
A new installation at Mulberry Hill, the former residence of Joan Lindsay, offers a peek into the author’s life – and her love of St Valentine’s Day.
- Nadia Bailey
- Exclusive
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Howzat! Cricket stars Alyssa Healy and Mitchell Starc buy luxury $25m estate
It’s the high-end deal of the year for a neighbourhood that has never managed a $20m+ sale and all before they’ve sold the house Jen Hawkins built.
- Lucy Macken
What do James Bond and Barbie have in common? It’s all in the brand
Don’t expect to see 007 driving a Toyota. When it comes to product placement, nothing is accidental.
- Michael Idato
Cue the sun: How The Truman Show predicted our obsession with fake reality
It’s 25 years since Peter Weir’s The Truman Show became a hit. No one involved expected the movie to be so hauntingly prophetic.
- Garry Maddox
From the Archives, 1982: Weir chooses not to live dangerously on set
In 1982, Peter Weir’s newest film ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’ almost lived up to its name during the final stages of shooting in the Philippines. Weir talked to The Age’s Philippa Hawker on the eve of the film’s release.
- Philippa Hawker
- Opinion
- Cinema
An iconic Australian director deserved an Oscar for this film. He wasn’t even nominated
The inside story of the battle between a writer, a director and a studio executive, that denied Australian film giant Peter Weir his one Oscar.
- Garry Maddox
From Hitchcock and Hanging Rock to Hollywood: Peter Weir reflects on his brilliant career
The great Australian filmmaker received an honorary Oscar for his “consummate skill and artistry” this weekend, but talking to him about it required an old-fashioned approach.
- Garry Maddox
Director Peter Weir joins list of cinema greats with historic award
The filmmaker behind Picnic At Hanging Rock, Dead Poets Society and The Truman Show will be the first Australian director awarded an honorary Oscar this weekend.
- Garry Maddox
- Opinion
- Anzac Day
A historian and a Hollywood director saved Anzac Day, but what of the future?
Anzac Day had fallen out of favour until Bill Gammage’s powerful retelling of the story struck a chord with younger Australians.
- Brett Evans
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