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
Contact
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.