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Mad Max: the original movie
It's hard to overstate the influence of Mad Max – on filmmakers, action cinema and the course of Australian movies. Made for a paltry AUD$380,000 by George Miller in 1979, the independently-funded...
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max 2 – retitled The Road Warrior in the US – is a standard-bearer for successful sequels and one of the greatest action movies of all time. Released in Australia at Christmas 1981, it was to...
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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road
The third and fourth Mad Max movies – Beyond Thunderdome and Fury Road – were released 30 years apart. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) co-starred Mel Gibson and Tina Turner and was co-directed by...
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Mad Max Movies: Stunts by Guy Norris and Grant Page
The insane, death-defying sequences, performed by talented stunt performers, are a huge part of the appeal of the Mad Max films.
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Mad Max Music: Brian May's Film Scores
Johnny Milner takes a closer listen to the soundscape of Mad Max and Mad Max 2, highlighting the film scores of composer Brian May.
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Mad Max Director George Miller
Director George Miller talks about making the first Mad Max film, released in US cinemas 40 years ago this month.
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Mad Max: Horror, Action or Black Comedy?
In this radio interview with director George Miller from 1979, film critic Tom Ryan (3RRR, Melbourne) initially suggests Mad Max (1979) is a comedy more than a horror film. Miller sounds...
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Musical motifs of Mad Max
The Mad Max films include some of the most compelling music on Australian celluloid. The music not only provides emotional resonances to specific scenes and helps clarify filmic meaning, but it also...
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Mad Max: Fury Road – NSW filming announcement
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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Mad Max: Fury Road at the BAFTA Awards
This news item from ABC News (Darwin) reports on the 2015 BAFTA awards presented to the makers of Mad Max: Fury Road in 2016. The film won four awards from the British Academy of Film and Television...
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