Il cinema di Peter Weir
Autore: Tiziana Battaglia
Numero di pagine: 155SUMMARY: Peter Weir is one of the most important directors of the Australian New Wave, which developed in the Seventies. He was born in Sydney on 21 August 1944. He recounts that he had an aversion to formal education and his cultural formation consisted in comic books and commercial films. In 1967, back from Europe where, like many young Australians, he had spent over a year, he decided to pursue a television career and joined Channel Seven in Sydney. Here he produced two satirical shorts until in 1970 he had the opportunity to direct the film novella Michael for the three-part film Three to Go. Then he went back to Europe to perfection his craft, working on feature films set in England. On returning to Australia, he made two of the best documentaries of the period and in 1974 he directed his first feature film, The Cars that Ate Paris. Since then he has directed up to date another ten, which include Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Last Wave (1977), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1983), Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986), Dead Poets Society (1989), Green Card (1990), Fearless (1994) and The Truman Show (1998), as well as a TV movie entitled The...