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      • It’s not exactly easy tracking down Peter Weir. Twelve years after his last film, the epic escape-from-a-Siberian-gulag drama The Way Back, the celebrated Australian director seems to be living quite happily out of the spotlight on Sydney’s northern beaches.
  1. Mar 17, 2024 · But it now appears that Weir has officially walked away from filmmaking for good.

    • Christian Zilko
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  3. Jul 20, 2022 · Ethan Hawke believes director Peter Weir retired because of bad experiences working with Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp. Weir has not made a movie since 2010's The Way Back— and Hawke alleges...

    • Jamie Burton
  4. Peter Lindsay Weir AM (/ wɪər / WEER; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian retired film director. He is known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Gallipoli (1981), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Witness (1985), Dead Poets Society (1989), Fearless (1993), The ...

  5. Peter Weir’s tenure as a director comes to an end as he announces retirement Recently, the veteran filmmaker Peter Weir attended the Paris retrospective at the Festival de la Cinémathèque. During the event, the director shared the heartwrenching news of his departure from the film industry.

  6. Sep 1, 2024 · 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...

    • Lily Ford
  7. Apr 18, 2021 · Beautifully directed, powerfully acted, Peter Weirs Gallipoli still captures the devastating emotional toll of war, 40 years after it first premiered.

  8. The Master and Commander, The Truman Show, and Dead Poets Society director last released a film in 2010 with The Way Back and now has confirmed rumors he’s retired from filmmaking. “Why did I stop directing?

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