Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Silent 'Extreme Prejudice' Director: Walter Hill

'Extreme Prejudice' Director: Walter Hill (1987) special features include commentary

Maggie Smith and Jim Broadbent

Using his own mother's life as inspiration

early footage of Paris from BFI archive and more

Picnic At Hanging Rock - Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics) Silent 'Extreme Prejudice' Director: Walter Hill'Picnic at Hanging Rock' by Anna Backman Rogers (BFI Film Classics Series, paperback) Peter Weir's haunting and allusive film, set in 1900, tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher on a trip to a local geological formation. The film is widely hailed as a classic of new Australian cinema, seen as exemplary of a peculiarly Australian style of heritage filmmaking. Anna Backman Rogers' study considers Picnic