Peter Weir

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Peter Weir’s latest film is “Master and Commander,” based on Patrick O’Brien’s writings and starring Russell Crowe. Weir’s past work includes “The Truman Show” and “Dead Poets’ Society”; he was also an instigator of the Australian New Wave of the 1970s with movies like “The Cars That Ate Paris,” “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” and “The Last Wave.”
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