" Time Out London stated " Weir's first romantic comedy boasts a central relationship which is tentative and hopeful, a mood beautifully realised by Depardieu ( venturing into new territory with a major English-speaking role ).

Weir's first full-length feature film was the underground cult classic, The Cars That Ate Paris ( 1975 ), a low-budget black comedy about the inhabitants of a small country town who deliberately cause fatal car crashes and live off the proceeds.

Weir's first American film was the successful thriller Witness ( 1985 ), the first of two films he made with Harrison Ford, about an Amish boy who sees the murder of an undercover police officer and has to be hidden away in his Amish community to protect him.

Witness was generally well received by critics and earned eight Academy Award nominations ( including Weir's first and Ford's sole nomination to date ).

He had significant roles in Rob Reiner's coming of age picture Stand by Me ( 1986 ) which first brought Phoenix to public prominence ; Peter Weir's The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), where Phoenix played the son of Harrison Ford's character ; A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon ( 1988 ); and Little Nikita ( 1988 ) alongside Sidney Poitier.

Weir's media presence and political stature gradually increased after becoming leader, and in the 1991 New Brunswick election she won a seat in Saint John South, the first provincial NDP leader to do so.

Jerman and Weir's work was a continuation of the research started by Andersen, who wrote The Witch on the Wall, the first serious book on sheela na gigs in 1977.

The book was Weir's first historical work since her first book, Britain's Royal Families.

He conducted the premiere of Judith Weir's A Night at the Chinese Opera ( as well as its first recording ).

Bond also provided the music and played a leading role in Weir's first film, the 1971 short feature Homesdale.

Weir's first attempt at election to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1890 failed.

From series 11 until series 16, it would start at £ 200 and increase by £ 50 each round, again with £ 10 deducted for each square removed but in series 17 ( Nick Weir's third and final series ), in the first half of the game, the Bonus Bank still started at £ 200 and would increase by £ 200 in round 2.

In Summer 2006, Challenge began showing Weir's first two series but it's return is yet to be announced.

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.

Kimock has toured and recorded with many Grateful Dead-themed bands, including Keith and Donna Godchaux's Heart of Gold Band ( 1979 – 80 ), Bob Weir's Kingfish ( 1986 ), Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band ( 1990 – 91 ), Vince Welnick's Missing Man Formation ( 1996 – 97 ), Phil Lesh and Friends ( 1998 – 99 ), and The Other Ones ( 1998 – 2000 ).

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.

Weir's next film, The Last Wave ( 1977 ) was a supernatural thriller about a man who begins to experience terrifying visions of an impending natural disaster.

The climax of Weir's early career was the $ 6 million multi-national production The Year of Living Dangerously ( 1983 ), again starring Mel Gibson, playing opposite top Hollywood female lead Sigourney Weaver in a story about journalistic loyalty, idealism, love and ambition in the turmoil of Sukarno's Indonesia of 1965.

Weir's next film, Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) was a major international success, with Weir again receiving credit for expanding the acting range of its Hollywood star.

Though well reviewed, particularly the performances of Bridges and Rosie Perez — who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress — the film was less commercially successful than Weir's two preceding films.

Lady Lindsay was interested in the development of a national identity, and her novel Picnic at Hanging Rock-in Peter Weir's hands-was hailed as initiating a Renaissance in Australian film.

However, if Richard was guilty, nothing in Weir's book demonstrates it.

Mydland was also in another of Weir's bands, Bobby and the Midnites, in 1980 and 1981.

* It was one of the inspirations for the crash in Peter Weir's 1993 film version of Fearless, adapted from a novel by Rafael Yglesias.

The period immediately following Weir's departure as leader was a difficult one for the party.

He later defeated Paler for the party's nomination in the buildup to the 1959 provincial election ; there was no lasting animosity between the candidates, and Paler served as Weir's campaign manager in the election that followed.

Pérez was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Peter Weir's 1993 film Fearless.

Weir's Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the election of 1969, although Spivak was easily re-elected in his own riding.

On 8 August 2006 Neville was announced as vice captain to David Weir, and – on Weir's departure to Rangers in January 2007 – he became the club captain.

In July 2007, Kimock was asked to join Bob Weir's RatDog, filling in for Mark Karan, who was undergoing treatment for cancer of the throat.

After they discovered that the shield protecting the underwater city of Atlantis was about to collapse, he joined the mission team searching for a new power source on Athos on Elizabeth Weir's orders.

Sections from the soundtrack have been featured in other films, perhaps most notably the piece ' Mishima / Opening ', which was used to score the end credits of Peter Weir's 1998 film The Truman Show.

* David Tennant, who features in a supporting role as " Time Lord 2 ", was formerly Arabella Weir's lodger and is godfather to one of her children.

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.

In the 1996 Furthur Festival, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box played, as did Bob Weir's band Ratdog.

Weir's lyrics have been revised twice, taking their present form in 1980, but the French lyrics remain unaltered.

Veit Stoss is featured in Judith Weir's opera, The Black Spider.

" Channel 4 said, " Weir's film has its fair share of cute moments as the opposites slowly begin to attract, but this is largely over rated stuff, which proved curiously popular with critics on its release.

Homesdale and Weir's two aforementioned CFU shorts have been released on DVD.

It became a major box-office hit and is without doubt one of Weir's best-known films for mainstream audiences.

The completed footage is included on some DVD releases of Weir's film.

" It added, " t's Weir's delicacy of touch that impresses the most.

* Peter Weir's The Last Wave and Picnic at Hanging Rock dealt with Dreamtime.

Peter Weir's 2003 film, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is loosely based on the novel The Far Side of the World from the Aubrey – Maturin series for its plot, but draws on a number of the novels for incidents within the film.

Calvin Weir's daughter, Lucy, served as postmaster at the post office in Townsville, where she also ran a small store.

A flood in 1913 damaged the resort and several local businesses, and after a severe drought, World War I and the great depression, Weir's population faltered but began to prosper again in the mid-20th century.

In 1992, a year after Alison Weir's book The Six Wives of Henry VIII, she published a book with the same title.