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50 Years Later, A Forgotten Exploitation Thriller Has Proven Secretly Influential

Before 'Mad Max' blew open the Ozploitation phenomenon, there was Peter Weir's 'The Cars That Ate Paris.'

Inverse · Jun 11

Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival

Australian film-maker behind Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli celebrated for defining country’s culture and ‘global influence on craft, form and storytelling’

The Guardian - AU · Jun 11

Sydney film festival 2026: nine of the best movies and one free event

With 248 films to choose from, highlights include The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus and a ‘psychosexual horror’ starring Hacks’ Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson

The Guardian - AU · May 6

‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock

‘A potential US distributor,’ recalls director Peter Weir, ‘supposedly threw his coffee cup at the screen at the end of the film, saying, “So whodunnit?” He felt he’d wasted a couple of hours’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2025

Sinn Fein ‘ignored role of 3,000 deaths in damaging community relations’

A former NIO minister had launched a consultation on a new good relations strategy for NI in 2003.

The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2024

5 movies on Prime Video with over 88% on Rotten Tomatoes

Prime Video's December 2024 schedule is just as vibrant as its previous lists. But these five movies have made their way into my watchlist.

TechRadar · Dec 10, 2024

Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris – a driving force in Ozploitation filmmaking

It has been 50 years since the cinema release of Peter Weir’s iconic, offbeat, cult classic The Cars That Ate Paris. The film seared the image of a silver Volkswagen Beetle weaponised with deadly spikes into the national imagination. It also helped shape the tropes of Ozploitation filmmaking within the…

The Conversation · Oct 10, 2024

Peter Weir to receive Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at Venice film festival

Australian director of Gallipoli and Dead Poets Society praised by festival for his impact in Hollywood ‘while keeping his distance from the American movie industry’

The Guardian - AU · May 10, 2024

From mythic creatures to innovative documentaries: 10 films to see at Sydney film festival 2024

The 5-16 June program includes Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest Kinds of Kindness, and a hairy family in Sasquatch Sunset

The Guardian - AU · May 7, 2024

50 Of The Best And Most Surprising Movie Details You Probably Never Noticed

We’ve gathered some of the best examples of cool, creative and downright bizarre easter eggs hidden in movies. The post 50 Of The Best And Most Surprising Movie Details You Probably Never Noticed first appeared on Bored Panda.

Bored Panda · Apr 25, 2024