It’s hard to overstate the importance of Peter Weir’s Gallipoli in shaping both Australia’s cinema and its wider culture. Released in 1981, the film opened to impressive box office receipts ...

Peter Weir will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, which runs August 28 – September 7, 2024. The announcement came on Thursday ...

VENICE, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Peter Weir, the Australian director of "The Truman Show", "Gallipoli" and "Dead Poets Society", was handed a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival on ...

In the process, the ANZACs met fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turk defenders (as dramatized in the 1981 Peter Weir film Gallipoli starring a young Mel Gibson), with horrific casualties ...

A leading voice in the Australian New Wave, Weir first made his name with “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” “The Last Wave” and “Gallipoli.” “Weir is a director of consummate skill and ...

It was the third feature film at the time from director Peter Weir - way before he would go on to make The Last Wave, Gallipoli, The Mosquito Coast, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show ...

The 1981 film Gallipoli, directed by Peter Weir, an Australian, depicts the tragedy of Australians heading into slaughter. Now a new Aussie film by Russell Crowe, The Water Diviner, radically ...