The Australian director delivered an extraordinary succession of personal, finely wrought films for almost four decades, from "The Year of Living Dangerously" to "Master and Commander." “With a total ...

Peter Weir celebrates his 75th birthday on August 21, 2019. With six Oscar nominations under his belt, the Australian-born director has firmly established himself as one of our most respected ...

The actor visited the film festival in 1985 on behalf of Peter Weir’s crime thriller, in which he played a police detective called upon to protect an Amish woman and her son. By Gregg Kilday Freelance ...

“Witness” is newly available in a bare-bones Blu-ray from Warner Bros; it is also available via Amazon Instant. There is not a wasted or unnecessary shot in Peter Weir’s “Witness,” or a superfluous ...

Oscar-nominated director Peter Weir (Witness, Dead Poets Society) and location manager Michael J. Meehan (Dead Poets Society, Pirates of the Caribbean) will be honored at the upcoming 6th Annual ...

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Discover What’s Streaming On: Peter Weir is the tip of the spear of the Australian New Wave, a collection of Aussie filmmakers including among others Fred Schepisi, Philip Noyce, George Miller, ...