Peter Weir

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Date of birth 21/08/1944

Peter Weir, director of such films as Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, and Master and Commander, has retired

March 18th 2024, 12:08pm

We take a look back at Peter Weir’s epic adaptation of Patrick O’Brien’s Master and Commander series, The Far Side of the World.

November 8th 2023, 10:02am

We take a look behind the scenes of one of Jim Carrey’s finest dramatic performances, The Truman Show, directed by Peter Weir.

May 24th 2023, 10:01am

Peter Weir, the acclaimed director of such films as Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Dead Poet’s Society, and The…

November 17th 2022, 1:52pm

Based on the novels by Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World was released nearly twenty…

June 4th 2021, 4:30pm

Paul Theroux's best-selling novel The Mosquito Coast was previously adapted into a feature-film starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, and River…

April 7th 2021, 5:20pm

I feel like I haven't heard of 2003's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World since its initial…

January 18th 2021, 9:46am

For years, Awesome Art We've Found Around The Net has been about two things only – awesome art and the artists that…

December 5th 2020, 12:00pm

Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for…

February 17th 2018, 12:00am

O Captain! My Captain! Wait … sorry, wrong movie. Earlier today, MASTER AND COMMANDER: FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD star…

November 27th 2017, 3:45pm

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