Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Irish Cottingham offers a fascinating insight

Cottingham offers a fascinating insight into both Fassbinder's career and the making of the 1970's drama

A combination of the farcical and the horrific which works to great effect

- Video essay on the film by John Ford expert and scholar Tag Gallagher

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Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Irish Cottingham offers a fascinating insight'Picnic at Hanging Rock' by Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics Series, paperback) Peter Weir's haunting and allusive film, set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculiarly Australian style of heritage filmmaking. Anna Backman Rogers' study considers Picnic