REEL ODDITIES: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK – 4K RESTORATION

March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2025
Reel Oddities: Picnic at Hanging Rock
New 4K Restoration
This sensual and striking chronicle of a disappearance and its aftermath put director Peter Weir on the map and helped usher in a new era of Australian cinema. Based on an acclaimed 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock is set at the turn of the twentieth century and concerns a small group of students from an all- female college who vanish, along with a chaperone, while on a St. Valentine’s Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society, Weir’s gorgeous, disquieting film is a work of poetic horror whose secrets haunt viewers to this day.
Dir: Peter Weir / 1975 / Australia / 107 min

“One of the most hauntingly beautiful mysteries ever created on film.” – Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

SCREENING: WED 3/5 7PM; WED 3/12 7PM; WED 3/19 7PM; WED 3/26 7PM

$13 GA & $10 OFS. Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.