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Tagged: Australian directors
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Richard Lowenstein and film editor Tayler Martin discuss the making of Mystify: Michael Hutchence, the music of INXS, and the life of Michael Hutchence.
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Director George Miller talks about making the first Mad Max film, released in US cinemas 40 years ago this month.
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George Ogilvie – widely recognised as one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre, film and television directors – passed away peacefully on 5 April 2020.
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On 7 February 2020, the NFSA hosted a screening and conversation with filmmaker Richard Lowenstein and film editor Taylor Martin about the making of the documentary, Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019...
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Director and screenwriter Jocelyn Moorhouse, in an oral history interview with the NFSA, talks about finding the perfect setting for the film The Dressmaker (2015).
Lorna Lesley interviewed Jocelyn...
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In this excerpt from an oral history interview with director Jocelyn Moorhouse, she talks about her hands-on involvement in the research for, and creation of the look and style of, the costumes in...
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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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An Australian-French psychological thriller set in Germany, Berlin Syndrome is Cate Shortland's third feature film. In this clip Clare Havel (Teresa Palmer), an Australian backpacker travelling in...