(Peter Weir, Australia 1975, 103 min., 35mm)

Perhaps no other film evokes “mysteries” as powerfully as this one. During an Appleyard College picnic on Valentine’s Day 1900, three young ladies and their teacher are drawn by an inexplicable force to the summit at Hanging Rock, and vanish. In his second feature, director Weir embraces the mystical, capturing the surreal beauty of an Australian backland that seems to transcend time.