The Way Back

Peter Weir’s final film was not meant to be his final film. In an interview with Mark Kermode after a David Lean lecture a little bit after The Way Back‘s release, Weir talked like he was going to continue trying to make films, but, more than a decade later, all we have to show is Ethan Hawke (star of Dead Poet’s Society) talking about how Weir had retired. This doesn’t feel like the kind of film that a director would go out on, like Kurosawa‘s Madayayo (not his final film, admittedly), or B...