Peter Weir
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Peter Lindsay Weir (born August 21, 1944) is an Australian film director, noted for films such as The Truman Show.
Born in Sydney, Australia, Weir attended The Scots College before studying art and law at the University of Sydney. His interest in film was sparked by his meeting with fellow students, including Phillip Noyce and the future members of the Sydney filmmaking collective Ubu Films.
Contents |
[edit]
Filmography
[edit]
Feature films
- Homesdale (1971)
- The Cars That Ate Paris (aka The Cars That Eat People) (1974)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
- The Last Wave (1977)
- Gallipoli (1981)
- The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
- Witness (1985)
- The Mosquito Coast (1986)
- Dead Poets Society (1989)
- Green Card (1990)
- Fearless (1993)
- The Truman Show (1998)
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
- Pattern Recognition (2008)
- Shadow Divers (2009)
[edit]
Short films
- Three to Go (1971) (segment "Michael")
[edit]
TV work
- Man on a Green Bike (1969)
- The Plumber (1978)
- Wayside (2007)
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Peter Weir" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
