| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 261 pages) |
| Series |
Conversations with filmmakers series |
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Conversations with filmmakers series.
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| Contents |
Peter Weir: reclaiming a Sydney boyhood / John C. Tibbetts, 2012 -- Peter Weir: snapshots in time / John C. Tibbetts, 2012 -- Peter Weir: early days / Sue Mathews, 1985 -- Small screens and big screens: television and film / Graham Shirley, 1991 -- The first features: The cars that ate Paris / Tom Hogan, 1973 -- Weir, weird, and weirder still?: The riddle of Hanging Rock / David Castell, 1976 -- Years of living dangerously: The last wave, The plumber, Gallipoli, The year of living dangerously / Sue Mathews, 1985 -- Interview with Peter Weir / Luisa Ceretto and Andrea Morini, 1999 -- Peter Weir: master of unease / Terry Dowling and George Mannix, 1980 -- Towards the center / Tom Ryan and Brian McFarlane, 1981 -- The swizzle stick: Peter Weir and Hollywood genres / Jonathan Rayner, 1993 -- The iceman cometh: Mosquito coast / Digby Diehl, 1986 -- Fearless: the poetry of apocalypse -- John C. Tibbetts, 1993 -- Poetry man: Dead poets society / Nancy Griffin, 1988 -- Weir's worlds: The Truman show / Virginia Campbell, 1998 -- This is your life: The Truman show / Eric Rudolph, 1998 -- He's fought his own way back to work / Terrence Tafferty, 2011 -- "I am your eyes": interviews with Russell Boyd, ACS, ASC / John C. Tibbetts, 2012 -- Appendix: notes on Gallipoli -- Interview with executive producer Francis O'Brien -- Peter Weir's Anzac lecture |
| Summary |
Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 7, 2014) |
| Subject |
Weir, Peter, 1944- Interviews
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Australia -- Interviews
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Individual Director.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tibbetts, John C., editor.
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| LC no. |
2013043852 |
| ISBN |
9781617038983 |
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1617038989 |
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9781621039853 |
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1621039854 |
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