Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Irish Two local men pursue her

Two local men pursue her hand in marriage but she knocks them back

John Houseman

'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' Director: Tony Richardson (1962) includes commentary

Atmospheric and stylish adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel

- Video essay on the film by John Ford expert and scholar Tag Gallagher

Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Irish Two local men pursue her'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