{"product_id":"9781496830869-peter-weir","title":"Peter Weir","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInterviews\u003cbr\u003eThe first volume of interviews to be published on the esteemed Australian director. Although Weir 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Weir: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e 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!”; and his self-assessment as “merely a jester, with cap and bells, going from court to court. ” He is encouraged, even provoked to tell his own story, from his childhood in a Sydney suburb in the 1950s, to his apprenticeship in the Australian television industry in the 1960s, his preparations to shoot his first features in the early 1970s, his international celebrity in Australia and Hollywood. An extensive new interview details his current plans for a new film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterviews discuss Weir's diverse and impressive range of work—his earlier films \u003ci\u003ePicnic at Hanging Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Wave\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGallipoli\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Living Dangerously\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Academy Award-nominated \u003ci\u003eWitness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDead Poets Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGreen Card\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Truman Show\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaster and Commander\u003c\/i\u003e. This book confirms that the trajectory of Weir's life and work parallels and embodies Australia's own quest to define and express a historical and cultural identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451518431606,"sku":"9781496830869","price":23.73,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38246945.jpg?v=1763843753","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496830869-peter-weir","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}