#joan lindsay

[flowerytale]

Joan Lindsay, from Picnic at Hanging Rock

#picnic at hanging rock #joan lindsay #typo #typography #words #lit #literature #fragments #quote #quotes #australian literature #*

[grimmicks]

“You must learn to love someone else apart from me, Sara.”

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir cine. Russell Boyd

#pahr #picnic at hanging rock #movies #films #peter weir #mystery #drama #rachel roberts #vivean gray #helen morse #kirsty child #anne-louise lambert #karen robson #jane vallis #christine schuler #margaret nelson #joan lindsay #jackie weaver #dominic guard #australian cinema #australian new wave #capspam #movieedit #filmedit #aesthetics #russell boyd

[megairea]

History suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1967

#joan lindsay #picnic at hanging rock #prose #literature #australian literature

[rosepompadour]

Tears sprang to her eyes, but she had no desire to weep. Only to love, and shaking out her ringlets she got up and began to dance — or, rather, to float away.

Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)

#joan lindsay #picnic at hanging rock #literature

[brokehorrorfan]

Picnic at Hanging Rock will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on April 9 via The Criterion Collection. Eric Skillman designed the cover art for the 1975 Australian mystery film.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Dead Poets Society) directs from a script by Cliff Green, based on Joan Lindsay's 1967 novel. Anne-Louise Lambert, Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray, and Jacki Weaver star.

Picnic at Hanging Rock has been newly restored in 4K, supervised by Weir and director of photography Russell Boyd, with HDR and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Interview with director Peter Weir

Making-of featurette with executive producer Patricia Lovell, producers Hal McElroy and Jim McElroy, and cast members

Introduction by film scholar David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

On-set documentary hosted by executive producer Patricia Lovell and featuring interviews with Peter Weir, actor Rachel Roberts, and author Joan Lindsay

Homesdale - 1971 black comedy directed by Peter Weir

Trailer

Essay by author Megan Abbott and an excerpt from film scholar Marek Haltof’s 1996 book Peter Weir: When Cultures Collide

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.

Pre-order Picnic at Hanging Rock.

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[saint-starflicker]

About the options: These are all Dark Academia but with girls, or related to that. (My definition of Dark Academia because really anything gets tagged that: as a genre fiction piece it must be dark and it must be academic. Dark, meaning involving death or themes of oppression or evil in the human heart; Academic meaning there is a focus of study, recurring reference to a subject of study, or more simply that most of the story takes place at a campus or schoolhouse of some sort.)

Wide Sargasso Sea is—apparently—a 1960's feminist and postcolonial retelling of boarding-school-girl-turned-governess Jane Eyre, but this time told from the point of view of Bertha Antoinette. (I have just finished reading Jane Eyre and wondered about what other works with which this book is already in a sort of literary "conversation". I have not read this book.)

Down a Dark Hall is a 1974 young adult gothic story about—judging from the movie—five girls sent to an exclusive boarding school where supernatural experiments in ghost possession are done on them. (I recently watched the movie and have not yet read the book.)

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1967 historical fiction story that takes place in the year 1900 in southeast Australia, also has mystery and—it seems, depending on how many chapters in the edition—science fiction elements. (I recently watched the 1975 movie and the 2018 miniseries, and have not yet read the book.)

Cracks by Sheila Kohler is a 1999 novel that takes place in a girls' boarding school in 1960s South Africa. (I only watched the movie, which set the story in Britain in the 1930s instead and eliminated the 1990's flashfoward. I have not yet read the book.)

I have already both read The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein and watched the 2011 movie adaptation, and I recommend both if you like Dark Academia that's about girls—even though, be warned, The Moth Diaries contains a lot more blood and death and intensely feelbad themes than the average Dark Academia book or movie.

#polls #dark academia #jane eyre #gothic literature #whimsygoth #whimsigothic #goth #gothic #wide sargasso sea #jean rhys #down a dark hall #lois duncan #picnic at hanging rock #joan lindsay #cracks #sheila kohler #down a dark hall 2018 #picnic at hanging rock 1975 #picnic at hanging rock 2018 #cracks 2009 #the moth diaries #rachel klein #the moth diaries 2011 #bookblr

[ahosia3]

"Łatwo jest podjąć spokojną, rozsądną decyzję z wieczora, co innego zaś wprowadzić ją w czyn w jasnym blasku dnia."

~Joan Lindsay:"Piknik pod Wiszącą Skałą"

#joan lindsay #piknik pod wisząca skałą #przemyślenia #życie #piękno #prawda #cytat o milosci #sztuka #cytat o uczuciach #koniec

[spookycathymorshaw]

#polls #gothic lit #gothic literature #frankenstein #mary shelley #the yellow wallpaper #charlotte perkins gilman #picnic at hanging rock #joan lindsay #the haunting of hill house #shirley jackson #jane eyre #charlotte bronte #wuthering heights #emily bronte #the tenant of wildfell hall #anne brontë #rebecca #daphne du maurier #the mysteries of udolpho #ann radcliffe

[harrybyharry]

the eerie morning before two schoolgirls from Appleyard College and their teacher disappeared, Picnic at Hanging Rock, dir. Peter Weir, 1975

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[boxcarwild]

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1975 Australian mystery film based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay.

#picnic at hanging rock #1970s #joan lindsay #peter weir #production design #beautiful woman #anne-louise lambert #creepy #australia #boticelli

[mosscollector]

The old comfortable silence settled down between them like a cat on a communal hearth and they were at one.

Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

#joan lindsay #picnic at hanging rock #silence #quote

[flowerytale]

Joan Lindsay, from Picnic at Hanging Rock

#picnic at hanging rock #joan lindsay #typo #typography #words #fragments #australian literature #happy valentine's day #*

[myhikari21things]

Read of Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey (1967) (204pgs)

#picnic at hanging rock #joan lindsay #fiction #paperback #1960s #reread

[megairea]

[…] the very air seemed pink, heavy with the scent of La France roses in silver vases.

Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock, 1967

#joan lindsay #picnic at hanging rock #prose #literature #australian literature

[rosepompadour]

Saint Valentine is the Patron Saint of Lovers. He’s a darling — sends people gorgeous cards with tinsel and real lace — have a caramel?

Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)

#why is the australian classics hardcover of this $500? #it's ABRIDGED #i am not paying that much for an abridged book #give me unabridged or give me death #picnic at hanging rock #joan lindsay #literature

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

unknown, from pinterest // Maurice (1987), dir. James Ivory // "Silent Noon" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti via poetryfoundation.org // Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), dir. James Weir // Renoir (2012), dir. Gilles Bourdos

#maurice #dante gabriel rossetti #poetry #e. m. forster #picnic at hanging rock #joan lindsay #films #renoir movie #french films #australian film #love quotes #quotes #literature #lit quotes #romance #parallels