PIcnic At Hanging Rock

Just my tribute to one of the best movies ever!

This was uploaded a while ago but I deleted the account for personal reasons. Thought I'd upload it again though.

The pics are in movie sequence.

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Film & Animation

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• picnic
• at
• hanging
• rock
• peter
• weir
• miranda
• haunting

[TheGB1950]

@Strange, where I went to Art College there was a Hoyts on George st. in New Haven Ct. Eerie like these flicks LOL

[misslizzard1111]

@TheGB195 what a fab film still haunts me but I was born in sydney and saw it there at hoyts george st in the 70s . So hard to get a copy of this film as "germany seems to have the rights to it.?? Mysterious like PAHR but instead of girls dissappearing its Sydney itself ! I believe the influence for both films were an indigenous one .

[misslizzard1111]

@coralarch OMG

[misslizzard1111]

great collage of my fav movie thanks toadstoolgirl. You have captured it beautifully. The only thing I would have like to have heard is the EAP quote " life is a dream within a dream' befitting the demise of the characters . thanks alot

[coralarch]

@ethelthefrog60 Thanks for that- I had forgotten the name of the building in SA. If I recall properly, wasn't there some terribly sad story connected with it?- a man who built it for his young wife and she either died in childbirth or ran off with a lover? Something like that. Whatever, I dips me lid to Joan for creating a remarkably potent modern myth. AND how I love the use of Beethoven's "Emperor Concerto"- so utterly delicate and haunting,like the story itself.

[ethelthefrog60]

@coralarch That's priceless! Joan actually attended Clyde Girls' Grammar School, St.Kilda, in Melbourne, in her youth. Years after she left, the school relocated to a former guest house in Woodend. The site is now known as Braemar College. Some have confused it with the the school depicted in the film, which was actually Martindale Hall, in the Clare Valley of South Australia. However the fortunes of both schools - Clyde and Appleyard - bore a striking resemblance.

[coralarch]

@ethelthefrog60 Tragically, Hollywood does remakes of its own brilliant classics from the Golden Years, too! UGH!! I hadn't known there were other versions of this wonderful story.Yes, didn't Joan go to school at Mt Macedon? btw, when last in USA, I heard some people complaining about this film because- wait for it-!

it wasn't sub-titled!!!

[ethelthefrog60]

@coralarch Yes, I've noticed the Hollywood tendency for remakes, suggesting a low tolerance of regional accents and foreign locations. It was fitting that Weir and the McElroys were recognised before that trend began. I'm quite intrigued with the recent retelling of the story for theatre: there's a UK and a US (NYC) musical version, and a popular local version was created by a Melbourne girls' school. As Joan went to a girls' school in her youth, it seems her story has travelled full cycle.

[coralarch]

@ethelthefrog60 I've only seen the Rock twice, but have watched the film at least 200 times!! How do you describe this film? Haunting, exquisite, chilling, tantalising....no words seem adequate. I bet if it were a Yank film, there'd be Hollywood remakes!!!

[ethelthefrog60]

@coralarch Indeed it is; Lady Lindsay has certainly left her mark on Australia - and the world - with this story. Hanging Rock itself is a remarkably imposing backdrop for the mystery - it never ceases to inspire a sense of awe and I always try to visit when I'm travelling past it.