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The Way Back is set to screen at two film festivals in the near future. One is this weekend at The Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival (MOTIFF), running in Los Angeles November 13-18. Their mission statement reads: The Museum of Tolerance International Film Festival (MOTIFF) seeks to explore human rights issues and prevent hatred [...]

Ropeofsilicon.com has just published some movie stills and behind the scenes images from the set of The Way Back. You can view the entire collection here.

There’s Gurra down there at the bottom! Thanks to Kris Tapely at Incontention.com

From Peter Debruge at Variety.com… After nearly a seven-year absence, director Peter Weir makes his long-awaited return with “The Way Back,” an impressive but not especially immersive true story of four POWs who escaped the Siberian Gulags and crossed the Himalayas on foot to freedom. Acquired by Newmarket Films immediately before its Telluride Film Festival [...]

From Stephen Farber at The Hollywood Reporter today… Bottom Line: Epic filmmaking hits most of the right notes. Peter Weir is rightly regarded as one of the world’s master filmmakers, but he has not made a movie since 2003′s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” which surely reflects the growing challenges for [...]

From Cinematical.com… Peter Weir’s The Way Back enters the canon of survival films as perhaps the most sadistically intent on making you feel as much of its subjects’ physical agony as possible. Despite its impeccable awards pedigree and prestige pic status, it may be too straight-up harrowing to get much traction, either with the Academy [...]

From The Hollywood Reporter today: Just 24 hours before his new film “The Way Back” is set to have its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, Peter Weir and Newmarket Films have announced that the indie distributor has acquired rights to the World War II adventure drama for U.S. audiences. Newmarket will release the [...]

Quiet Earth posted in December the first official movie stills from Peter Weir’s The Way Back. Here’s a few, check their site for more Synopsis: When they escape a Siberian labor camp in 1940, seven courageous multi-national prisoners discover the true meaning of friendship as their epic journey takes them across thousands of miles of [...]

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