Can you suggest any other film like it?

when he returned he had "the lace"clutched in his hand.(sends a shiver)down my spine still.😬

@@mariaislam9390 ''Aguirre: The Wrath of God'' by Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinsky, different story but same dry cool style, great film really. Try this one, you'll thank me :-)

@@mariaislam9390 The Reflecting Skin, Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky, Wings of desire by Vim Wenders, Mulholland drive.

A classic masterpiece.

That line is especially poignant when you learn about the history of Hanging Rock. It's sacred to the Aboriginal people of Australia who have been living around it for over 26000 years. That's more than a tenth of the time modern humans have existed. We aren't even completely sure of its true name because that knowledge has been violently suppressed. But these girls don't know any of that, to them it's just a picnic spot. Or maybe they do know, and just don't care.

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When I saw the movie I was 19. Now I'm 65. It has the same fascination. The flute of Pan Is by the same Roumanian author. Beacause we are in the same atmosphere of mysteries & magic. He fled from Paris for fear of heavy taxation. Now he Is back to Romania, to the country of Pan.

There is a weird vibe to it!

@D.W I used to go rock climbing there in the eighties even then being there used to give me the shivering creeps and back then i have never seen the movie .

@@addamr2052 Were the shiverring creeps because you had heard about the place having some strange energy beforehand, or you just legitimately got the creeps with no previous knowledge of the area?? What did it feel like there (like, in more detail, how was it creepy)?? I've always had the desire to visit and climb there, that's cool that you got to do that :).

@@stevennieto9898 creepiest G rated film I’ve ever seen. Definitely not for kids.

@@RMND424 I remember my parents taking me to the rock when I was little. I hadn’t seen the movie. I was about 9. I refused to climb it. I just was creeped out. Something always made me feel like we were being watched from the forest.

I agree though I doubt they could make a movie like this anymore I saw the remake and please excuse my French but it was utter shit! Some movies such as this classic should be left well alone!

@@Musicologist-61 was that the tv series? i wasnt moved by that either!! Miranda should have been a beautiful, blonde girl, with more to her character than was portrayed by the actress. Maybe im still mesmerized by the wonderful Miss Lambert's performance & beauty! .

Thank you, I was able to forward this music to the film. Jim McElroy

Agree totally

Oh my, did they??!

The 2018 TV series is an adaptation of the book, not a remake of Peter Weir's film. Books get adapted over and over again -- especially classics -- and this is no different. While I agree Weir's film is a masterpiece and will never be bettered, there's no reason why adaptations can't exist. I can think of examples where a new adaptation betters an earlier film -- the Coens' adaptation of True Grit is such an example. You're under no obligation to watch an version you are not interested in.

True wonderful words!

You must learn to love someone apart from me. I won't be here much longer.

@@Blackwidow765 *truly...just correcting your English *words

@@XanSprouse I am not hearing the correlation you are trying to connect together...this beautiful song /music is about unknown things...not suicide which! is far from beautiful or romantic unless you are a moron and/or Judas...maybe its for people before you, just a normal person that enjoys beautiful music without your destructive connotations hoisted upon it...but then maybe it is for me to hoist upon you what you think is yours alone to hoist.

mar bo Well, Replican7 started out by quoting Miranda. So I decided to also quote Miranda from the same scene. This is my favorite novel and I’ve read it about 50 times, and I’ve seen the movie quite a few times as well. The quote isn’t about suicide, it’s about Miranda’s ethereal and mysterious nature and how she seems to know that she will soon disappear without a trace. But sure, call me a moron because I’m quoting the movie/novel that we were discussing. It frankly says more about you than it does me.

Sending love.

Actually it's not a song, because no one is singing.

@@paristexas919 thanks for sharing

Same here. It evokes things that a child cannot understand.

MrRegis7188 Agreed and oddly, I can't otherwise abide the pan flute. But it's deployed to wonderful effect here.

you need to visit an insane asylum for a while. They will fix you up - oh, and lots of medication. Do you still wet your bed?

Exactly what bought me here

Oh man, that's sadistic, what a troll. Typical of someone who tortured the cat.

Hello - I just saw this comment and looked up your name and credits. You should be proud! The movie is a masterpiece. Thank you so much for your work.

Well spoken

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Where is your mom?

Compelling………………

Same

Genau wie bei mir - also like me

@@harrykornek6605, oh, schön!

Me too. I saw this in 1975 with my mother when I was 7 or 8.

one needs a bit of a brain to be able to apreciate certain things..

I do!!!

Romanian popular music totally sucks dude! Take it from me, I live in Romania.

@@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 really

Thank you Alan, hang in there, it does get very much better.

The Ascent music has become my favorite part, even more than Zamfir.

The ascent music is amazingly haunting as well. Peter Weir also incorporated maybe the most beautiful piece of music ever written, Beethoven's 5th Piano concerto 2 movement.

@@OriginalMindTrick And Bach's Prelude in C - Major

@@Gerguzalbutzelnikoskech Yeah when the girls were on the carriage.

Yeah, astonishing film...and of course soundtrack...but this becomes sometimes repetitive through the course of film...

Try 'Martyr' that'll imact your psyche for months.

Have you seen "Misery"?

I know exactly what you mean.

I agree.

I thank you Fred. Jim McElroy

propaganda

Christopher Nolan agrees

In fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all.

From Edgar Allan Poe's "A Dream Within a Dream" which has appeared at the beginning of other films too.

This world is all a fleeting show for mans illusion given.!

Thank you Brett. Jim McElroy

I will always think of this piece of music, of which one was a piece of Romanian music , which some years later was my dear wife, a Romanian, Marta McElroy.

I would have turned around 10 mins into it - this music gives me the heebie jeebies

The_Man_from_Epsilon_Crucis wtf are the heebie jebies

it means you get the chills - the willies - a sense of doom - the hairs go up on the back of your neck

I got locked in the park one evening and had to spend the whole night below the rock. Very scary.

you so lucky!

Why?

@@lucylovic Maybe because this particular section of the soundtrack is actually Romanian folk music ( Doina "Sus pe culmea dealului" ) interpreted by a Romanian artist ???

Thank you, I was to place this music in the film. I was also a close friend on Anne Lambert, a great actress and Counsellor.

what the hell happened?

doina de jale...also by georghe zamfir

I had lost all trace of this fabulous music - Doina de Jale ! Thank you.

watch the movie!

that happen becasue you old with weak heart. You should only listen to soft boring music like religious songs. Old people make me sick. Always complaining about their ailments. Well guess what, nobody cares.

I did watch it. I don't like that fat, needy girl that got left behind. She was smelly.

Totally, when the flute goes up to that one kind of blue note and the organ goes to that minor key - woah, fantastic!

Oksana Weletska i can understand what u are saying. peter weir and some other more aussie directors have a very very subtle psycological touch to them, and that cannot be separated from their land

***** can you recommend some films with that psychological touch you're talking about? :) picnic at hanging rock blew my mind. I want mooore

+kurta123 Weekend of shadows would be a good place to start.

+kurta123 "The Last Wave" - Weir's follow-up to "Picnic at Hanging Rock" - is worth a look

Listen on, life is beautiful. Jim

There are some amazing comments on this video and yours is one of my favorites. It's nice to know there are others who understand the power of great music.

I am happy that you should have happiness that the music I found from Zamfir, can shape your existence

Yes, and it certainly shaped my existence having found the music. Also, a dear friend Ann Lambert who was to act in the film.

This îs romanian ancestrale music of hundred years!

Yes so yes

Nothing is all over, I can still remember playing the music to both Hal McElroy and Peter Weir. Neither seemed they were able to say thanks

Thank you. As life would have it, in 1975 I produced the film and some years later, I was fortunate to marry a dear woman from Romania.

The music I found for Peter Weir and Hal, my twin brother and fellow Producer, was a deeply satisfying time in 1975. Also the good fortune was to meet and marry a Romanian woman.

This is incorrect. I found this music and placed these two pieces from, Zamfir and Hawkwind, into the film. To this date, I have not been acknowledged. Subsequently, and to wonderful happiness, I married a Romanian individual some years after. Jim McElroy

Peter Weir had nothing to do with the choice of music, it was my idea. I was later able to work with Marta, my dear wife, who like Zamfir was Romanian.

Actually, as the Producer, this music I found for the film. I played for Hal and Peter Weir, I will always be proud

The segue of Miranda into the image of the swan in the reverie of the young man remembering hislaast glimpse of her is heartbreakingly beautiful.

+Richard Koenigsberg Drug-addicts must be very aware of this treacherous path.

Very disturbing. Can anyone translate the title of the theme music?

Yes, drug-addiction and the search for paradise: escape from reality: how tempting it is. The squares underestimate the PLEASURE of addiction.

As an addict of over 20 years, yes, yes they do (underestimate the pleasures that come with addiction, that is). Off to get morphine tomorrow. Lovely stuff, especially when taken with great music like this

Renata Dejong Why? I have a lovely little house, a great kid, 2 awesome cats, my own car & motorbike, a job that allows me to make allowances for my mental health, added to which I am a chronic pain patient, so I am always going to be somewhat physically dependent. My biggest issue is my BPII and GAD which, ironically, is actually helped by the low dose opiate medication I am prescribed by my pain management team. There's a difference between desperate junkie and being physically dependent. I was a junkie for 12 years and would never go back to that, but I am more than fine being medicated because I can live a decent life that way. Sobriety is not the only way; our society has mixed up moralising with science. Read some of Dr Carl Hart's work if you actually want to understand the nature of drugs, addiction and how moral panics create this idea that being "clean" is the only possible way forward (implying those who aren't are somehow "dirty"...very loaded terms). So really, I don't need you faux concern trolling with the smiley face because it implies my treatment team and myself don't know what works for me when I am actually 45 years old...it's actually really patronising.

It is certainly the piece of greater timbral intensity!

to me it expresses forms of joy and reverence northern europeans cant filter in or out

Absolutely. Its sacred and sensual at the same time.

Ah, yeah, sure.

Jim Green Don't believe it? Do I care?

Geekman333 Oh I believe it. I just don't believe that it had anything to do with 'the rock', which you have alluded to.

Jim Green Good for you.

Geekman333 Thanks.

Me too. Weir's masterpiece.

Disgusting comment. Hot hate is everywhere these days.

It was made in Australia, far from Hollywood, and Peter Weir was far from being the respected Hollywood director that he'd later become.

@@dannyinaus obsessions can be cured

lost in the verbose yaw of murmuring

me too, exactly the same

Thank you. It was inspiring to find this music, and some twenty more yeas or so to marry a wonderful Romanian woman.