In rare instances, such as Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Blake Edwards ' Darling Lili, scenes have been deleted instead of added, creating a shorter, more compact cut.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone called the film a " captivating romantic bonbon " and added, " Don't look for the originality and grit that distinguished Weir's Australian films Picnic at Hanging Rock and Gallipoli, Green Card has all the heft of a potato chip.

After playing a leading role in the Australian New Wave cinema with his films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of American and international films — many of them major box office hits — including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, Green Card, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

Weir's major breakthrough in Australia and internationally was the lush, atmospheric period mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 ), made with substantial backing from the state-funded South Australian Film Corporation and filmed on location in South Australia and rural Victoria.

The Hanging Rock, Western Sayan, Ergaki mountains

Picnic at Hanging Rock is a 1967 drama and mystery novel by Australian author Joan Lindsay.

The rock formation featured in the story, Hanging Rock, is a geological formation located in Victoria, Australia.

Picnic at Hanging Rock centers around a trip by a party of girls from Appleyard College, a fictitious upper class private boarding school, who travel to Hanging Rock in the Mount Macedon area, Victoria, for a picnic on Valentine's Day 1900.

This aroused enough lasting public interest that in 1980 a book of hypothetical solutions ( by Yvonne Rousseau ) was published, called The Murders at Hanging Rock.

Chapter Eighteen, as it is known, was published posthumously in 1987 as The Secret of Hanging Rock by Angus & Robertson Publishing.

However, while the geological feature, Hanging Rock, and the several towns mentioned are actual places near Mount Macedon, the story is not completely true.

Incidentally, in 1919 this school was transferred to the town of Woodend, Victoria, about 8 km southwest of Hanging Rock.

The feature film version of Picnic at Hanging Rock premiered at the Hindley Cinema Complex in Adelaide on 8 August 1975.

Picnic at Hanging Rock was adapted by playwright Laura Annawyn Shamas in 1987 and published by Dramatic Publishing Company.

* The Secret of Hanging Rock

* Official website of Hanging Rock ( Mount Diogenes ) in Australia

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Other award winning productions include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli, The Tracker, Shine and Ten Canoes.

Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 ) is notable for introducing Australian cinema to an international audience.

Films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock ( Peter Weir, 1975 ) and Sunday Too Far Away ( Ken Hannam, 1975 ) made an impact on the international arena.

A number of thrillers and horror films dubbed " outback gothic " have been created, including Wake in Fright, Walkabout, The Cars That Ate Paris and Picnic at Hanging Rock in the 1970s, Razorback and Shame in the 1980s and Japanese Story, The Proposition and the world-renowned Wolf Creek in the 2000s.

Hanging Rock is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ); it had a population of 288, 649 at the 2000 census.

The area also includes Black Diamond Heritage Area, Old Town of Franklin Heritage Area, Hanging Gardens Recreation Area, Walter

The Hanging Lake Rest Area ( Exit 125 ) provides access to the canyon along a stretch where I-70 is concealed in the Hanging Lake Tunnel.

It also have Swimming Pools, Cottages, Conference Halls, Hanging Bridge, Clean River, Rappeling Area, Wall Climbing, Ropping, ATV Rides, Paint Ball Area, Trekking, and view of the Water Falls.

Wonders typically affect either the city in which they are built ( for example, the Colossus ), every city on the continent ( for example, the Hanging Gardens ), or the civilization as a whole ( for example, Darwin's Voyage ).

Many of Cairo's oldest Coptic churches, including the Hanging Church, are located along the fortress walls in a section of the city known as Coptic Cairo.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are a World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Tower of Babel are seen as symbols of luxurious and arrogant power respectively.

Hanging a horseshoe on the door of a house and leaving a pile of salt outside your bedroom are said to keep a boggart away.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are documented by ancient Greek and Roman writers, including Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and Quintus Curtius Rufus.

However, no cuneiform texts describing the Hanging Gardens are extant, and no definitive archaeological evidence concerning its whereabouts has been found.

In ancient writings the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were first described by Berossus, a Babylonian priest of Marduk who lived in the late 4th century BC, although his books are known only from quotations by later authors ( e. g., Flavius Josephus ).

" The Hanging Gardens so-called because it has plants cultivated at a height above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth.

* Hanging chads are attached to the ballot at only one corner.

All three of his brothers are also actors and the four of them starred together ( as four brothers ) in the 1995 television TV serial The Hanging Gale about the Irish Famine.

Belews Lake and Hanging Rock State Park are located nearby.

The residents of Hanging Rock are served by the Rock Hill Local School District and the Briggs Lawrence County Public Library in Ironton, with branches in South Point, Chesapeake, Proctorville and Willow Wood.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis.

As Batley shares boundaries with both Dewsbury and Heckmondwike, parts of Batley Carr, Hanging Heaton and Staincliffe are part of Dewsbury, while part of White Lee is in Heckmondwike.

There are several rocky outcrops on this steep slope, including Highcliff Nab and the Hanging Stone.

* Hanging coffins are coffins which have been placed on cliffs.

Nic Briand's influences tend to be " heavier " such as the Wu Tang Clan, comic books and Jimi Hendrix, whereas Susien Chong's are " softer " elements such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, ballet and Roberta Flack.

The legendary “ Hanging Judge ,” along with U. S. Attorney Clayton, are credited with bringing law and order to the region.

Motor boats are allowed on Waskesiu, Crean, Kingsmere, Sandy and the Hanging Heart Lakes.

The Hanging Gardens, Mumbai, in Mumbai, India, also known as Pherozeshah Mehta Gardens, are terraced gardens perched at the top of Malabar Hill, on its western side, just opposite the Kamala Nehru Park.