Peter Weir : interviews / edited by John C. Tibbetts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weir, Peter, 1944- Interviewee.

Contributor:

Tibbetts, John C.

Series:

Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--Australia--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Weir, Peter, 1944---Interviews.

Weir, Peter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Peter Weir: Interviews is the first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir (b. 1944) has acquired a reputation of being guarded about his life and work, these interviews by archivists, journalists, historians, and colleagues reveal him to be a most amiable and forthcoming subject. He talks about ""the precious desperation of the art, the madness, the willingness to experiment"" in all his films; the adaptation process from novel to film, when he tells a scriptwriter, ""I'm going to eat your script; it's going to be part of my blood!"";

Contents:

Peter Weir: reclaiming a Sydney boyhood / John C. Tibbetts, 2012

Peter Weir: snapshots in time / John C. Tibbetts, 2012

Peter Weir: early days / Sue Mathews, 1985

Small screens and big screens: television and film / Graham Shirley, 1991

The first features: The cars that ate Paris / Tom Hogan, 1973

Weir, weird, and weirder still?: The riddle of Hanging Rock / David Castell, 1976

Years of living dangerously: The last wave, The plumber, Gallipoli, The year of living dangerously / Sue Mathews, 1985

Interview with Peter Weir / Luisa Ceretto and Andrea Morini, 1999

Peter Weir: master of unease / Terry Dowling and George Mannix, 1980

Towards the center / Tom Ryan and Brian McFarlane, 1981

The swizzle stick: Peter Weir and Hollywood genres / Jonathan Rayner, 1993

The iceman cometh: Mosquito coast / Digby Diehl, 1986

Fearless: the poetry of apocalypse

John C. Tibbetts, 1993

Poetry man: Dead poets society / Nancy Griffin, 1988

Weir's worlds: The Truman show / Virginia Campbell, 1998

This is your life: The Truman show / Eric Rudolph, 1998

He's fought his own way back to work / Terrence Tafferty, 2011

"I am your eyes": interviews with Russell Boyd, ACS, ASC

John C. Tibbetts, 2012

Appendix: notes on Gallipoli

Interview with executive producer Francis O'Brien

Peter Weir's Anzac lecture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes filmography and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61703-898-9

1-62103-985-4

OCLC:

876736146