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The director
Peter Weir turns 65 today. And in those sixty-five years he's only got eighteen directing credits listed on
IMDb (and a few of those early ones I don't know enough about to even suppose if they're features or television commercials or what). Not enough! His next movie,
The Way Back, stars Colin Farrell and I wrote about it
right here; it's about a group of soliders in WWII escaping from a labor camp. Happy! But I do love Peter Weir. So here in wholly random order are my five fave films of his.
The Truman Show (1998)
"Somebody help me, I'm being spontaneous!"
Witness (1985)
"I'm learning a lot about manure. Very interesting."
Fearless (1993)
"People don't believe in god
so much as they choose not to believe in nothing."
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
"We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty.
We buy what we don't need and throw away everything
that's useful. Why sell a man what he wants?
Sell him what he doesn't need. Pretend he's got eight legs
and two stomachs and money to burn. It's wrong.
Wrong, wrong, wrong."
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
"There's some questions got answers and some haven't."
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The director Peter Weir turns 65 today. And in those sixty-five years he's only got eighteen directing credits listed on IMDb (and a few of those early ones I don't know enough about to even suppose if they're features or television commercials or what). Not enough! His next movie, The Way Back, stars Colin Farrell and I wrote about it right here; it's about a group of soliders in WWII escaping from a labor camp. Happy! But I do love Peter Weir. So here in wholly random order are my five fave films of his.
The Truman Show (1998)
Witness (1985)
Fearless (1993)
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
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c'mon, no Year of Living Dangerously?
Mirandaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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