From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!tekecs!stevenm Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: Australian Director Peter Wier... [vs. Paths of Glory] Article-I.D.: tekecs.589 Posted: Mon Mar 7 22:36:14 1983 Received: Thu Mar 10 01:21:29 1983 References: tekid.987 I also like Peter Weir, and I liked 'Gallipoli' and 'The Year of ...', (as well as 'The Last Wave', and 'Picnic At Hanging Rock') but be **sure** that you see Stanley Kubrick's 1950-era movie 'Paths Of Glory' **before** seeing 'Gallipoli' (or 'Breaker Morant', for that matter). Both the latter movies are direct homages (read 'rip-off') of the Kubrick original. Peter Weir is one of the best Australian modern film-makers, but Kubrick remains one of the world's best, and certainly one of America's only world-class film-makers. My humble opinion, S. McGeady