Peter Weir

Peter Weir’s ‘Dead Poets Society’: An Awe-Inspiring Celebration of the Human Spirit

  March 17, 2023   I've tried, to some extent, to disassemble my style, to fight against my own signature.…

1 year ago

Subject to the Requirements of the Service: Peter Weir’s ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’

    By Tim Pelan   Asked by Debbie Lynn Elias of Behind The Lens Online on what compels the…

3 years ago

Peter Weir’s ‘Fearless’ as a Soulful Slice of Life That Gently Examines the Human Condition

  By Koraljka Suton   Essentially, this is a detective story and the mystery at hand is this: What happened…

4 years ago

Peter Weir’s ‘Witness’: A Deep, Subtle and Complex Social Comment Disguised as a Police Thriller

  By Sven Mikulec   One of the main figures of the Australian New Wave, Peter Weir, earned the attention…

7 years ago

‘The Truman Show’: Weir and Niccol’s Uplifting Yet Prophetically Disturbing Dystopian Satire

  By Sven Mikulec   Peter Weir's The Truman Show, the dystopian satire from 1998 written by Andrew Niccol, remains…

8 years ago