Before he went to Hollywood, Peter Weir made a number of notable films in his native Australia. Check these out to get a taste of his vision before the big budgets and marquee names came in.
“The Cars That Eat People” (Home Vision, 1974): A seemingly chance car accident strands in man in the bizarre outback town of Paris, Australia.
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“Picnic at Hanging Rock” (Criterion, 1975): A 1900 Valentine’s Day outing results in the mysterious disappearance of several schoolgirls in Weir’s masterpiece of mood and ambiguity.
“The Last Wave” (Criterion, 1977): Based partly on Aboriginal myth, Richard Chamberlain begins to suspect that his apocalyptic premonitions could come true.
“Gallipoli” (Paramount, 1981): An excellent anti-war film set in 1915, “Gallipoli” features one of Mel Gibson’s earliest performances.
“The Year of Living Dangerously” (MGM, 1982): A foreign correspondent (Gibson again) and a diplomat (Sigourney Weaver) try to make sense of chaotic 1965 Indonesia.