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UW Cinematheque - Special Presentations

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK | Australia | 1975 | DCP | 107 min. Director: Peter Weir

Event Details

Date
Friday, November 7, 2025
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Rachel Roberts, Helen Morse, Jacki Weaver. On Valentine’s Day in 1900, three young women and an instructor from Appleyard College disappear during a visit to Hanging Rock, a massive volcanic formation. Adapted from a novel by Joan Lindsay, Weir’s movie traces the disappearance and the aftermath, resulting in a haunting, unsettling, and at times beautiful cinematic experience.
Cost
Free
Accessibility

We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-262-3627 or email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Friday, October 24, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.

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