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Tagged: 2000s
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This ABC News (Canberra) item from 2009 covers the announcement that a fourth Mad Max film is going into production and will be filmed in NSW.
However, despite all the preparation and financial...
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Director George Miller explains that Mad Max 2 (1981) was a very different production experience.
While he had a much bigger budget to work with, the greatest difference was his thinking about the...
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Director George Miller reflects on the various cultural interpretations of Mad Max (1979) and how they influenced his preparation of Mad Max 2 (1981).
In Japan, Mad Max was considered a Samurai film...
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George Miller discusses what influenced him in making Mad Max. In particular, he talks about his childhood in the flat, lonely landscape of Chinchilla in rural Queensland and the car culture in that...
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'The entire budget was $350,000', says George Miller in this interview with Paul Byrnes for australianscreen online in 2006.
While $350,000 in 1979 is roughly $1.8 million in 2020, it's still a...
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Cate Shortland directed 10 episodes of the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us from 2001–2003.
This excerpt of Series 1 Episode 19 A Friend Indeed features Claudia Karvan (Dr Alex...
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Joy portrays an evening in the life of a teenage girl, set in the neon world of a late-night shopping centre in Sydney.
Director Cate Shortland defltly creates an intense and complex portrait of the...
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This news story about the state funeral for Alec Campbell, the last Gallipoli veteran, appeared on the Seven Network's Today Tonight on 24 May 2002.
Alec Campbell, the final surviving participant of...
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This clip looks at the closure of Canberra’s independent Electric Shadows art-house cinema in December 2006. Dr Paolo Cherchi Usai, former head of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia,...
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Our Brilliant Second Life is a short documentary from a series called Podlove, that screened on SBS television.
Each episode of Podlove explores how communication technologies have influenced and had...