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__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. He talks about “the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to experiment” in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, “I’m going to eat your script; it’s going to be part of my blood!”; and his self-assessment as “merely a jester, with cap and bells, going from court to court.” He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the 1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early 1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film. Interviews discuss Weir’s diverse and impressive range of work―his earlier films __Picnic at Hanging Rock__, __The Last Wave__, __Gallipoli__, an

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Author

Weir, Peter;Tibbetts, John C.; David Thomson

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781617038983

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Performing Arts, Sports