Peter Weir, the legendary Australian director of “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” “The Year of Living Dangerously,” “Gallipoli,” “Witness,” “Dead Poets Society,” “The Truman Show,” and “Master and Commander: ...

Before we see a gun, a bullet or a drop of blood, we see tall grass swaying in the breeze. Amid the grass there is a mass of men, women and children walking peaceably but confidently. We soon discern, ...

The actor visited the film festival in 1985 on behalf of Peter Weir’s crime thriller, in which he played a police detective called upon to protect an Amish woman and her son. By Gregg Kilday Freelance ...

Peter Weir may have called his directing career “extinct,” but his movies remain irrevocably alive. One of his best is Witness (1985), about a detective defending an Amish boy (Lukas Haas) from a ...

The Australian director delivered an extraordinary succession of personal, finely wrought films for almost four decades, from "The Year of Living Dangerously" to "Master and Commander." “With a total ...