Peter Weir will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, which runs August 28 – September 7, 2024. The announcement came on Thursday from the ...

Before Jim Carrey made The Truman Show (1998) an iconic masterpiece, the role of Truman Burbank was almost given to Robin ...

Am I waking or am I dreaming? Is this an unsettling gaze at some mystical Other, or fresh Oscar bait on the barbie? The soft dilemmas of the Peter Weir oeuvre get a fresh airing at the Film Society of ...

Australian filmmaker Peter Weir captured the hearts of his master class audience at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday by telling a myriad of untold tales about some of his biggest films including The ...

The Australian director delivered an extraordinary succession of personal, finely wrought films for almost four decades, from "The Year of Living Dangerously" to "Master and Commander." “With a total ...

The Venice Film Festival's conversation series will include talks with Richard Gere, French director Claude Lelouch, and 'Life Is Beautiful' composer Nicola Piovani. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau ...

Before we see a gun, a bullet or a drop of blood, we see tall grass swaying in the breeze. Amid the grass there is a mass of men, women and children walking peaceably but confidently. We soon discern, ...

The Australian director and screenwriter is known for the likes of 'Dead Poets Society,' 'The Truman Show' and 'Master and Commander.' By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The Venice Film Festival ...

The Venice Film Festival will honor Australian director and screenwriter Peter Weir – whose body of work comprises “Dead Poets Society,” “The Truman Show,” and “Master and Commander: The Far Side of ...

The Venice Film Festival will fete Australian director and screenwriter Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master & Commander) with its honorary Golden Lion at its forthcoming 80th ...