Second Sight Films has announced the Blu-ray release of
Picnic at Hanging Rock in the UK for July 26. This acclaimed Australian film, directed by Peter Weir in 1975, will be presented in its 107-minute director's cut (one of the rare instances in film history where a director's cut is shorter than the theatrical cut).
Special features include:
- Feature-length documentary: A Dream within a Dream
- A Recollection: Hanging Rock 1900 - Joan Lindsay interview
- Hanging Rock and Martindale Hall: Then and Now
- Short film: The Day of St Valentine (the first screen adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel)
- Audio interviews
- Stills and poster gallery
- Scenes deleted for the director's cut
There is no information regarding region encoding at the time.