4 THE FILMS OF PETER WEIR JONATHAN RAYNER, 2ND ED, CONTINUUM, 2003 I AM familiar with Jonathan rayner's first edition of The Films of Peter Weir and with his excellent Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000) and so i can whole-heartedly recommend rayner as a...

En samleboks med fire filmer av Peter Weir fra 70-tallet, og hÃ'ydepunktet er den billedskjÃ'nne og mystiske Picnic at Hanging Rock. PETER WEIRS FILMER fra Australia har hatt liten tilgjengelighet i Norge. Hans debutfilm The Cars That Ate Paris hadde en kort distribusjonstid...

[The Plumber is] a 76-minute Pinteresque black comedy, which at times is hysterically funny and at other times emotionally disturbing…. The Plumber is in some ways a more perfectly realized work than Weir's earlier, more ambitious films…. The brilliance of the film lies in taking [a] stock situation from domestic comedy, which would be farcical in the context of an I Love Lucy show, and transforming it into a desperate struggle for sanity and survival. (p. 17)

Music and poetry are the arts most difficult to transfer to cinema. Peter Weir, an imaginative Australian writer-director, has accomplished this most successfully in the film Incredible Floridas. It derives its title from a line in a poem by Arthur Rimbaud: "I've struck, I tell you, incredible floridas" [the Spanish word for "full of flowers, choice or select"]. The film is built around the musical homage paid the 19th century French poet by 41-year-old Richard Meale, a le...

Early passages of Peter Weir's [The Last Wave] suggest that he has successfully married the vigour of his first film, The Cars That Ate Paris, to the plastic and enigmatic qualities of its successor, Picnic at Hanging Rock…. [The] episodes of Billy Corman's death and Burton's subsequent involvement in the legal proceedings are economically dovetailed into the narrative, with Weir integrating the various strands of the plot through the persisting water imagery—the sprinkler...