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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 – 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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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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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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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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Director George Miller talks about making the first Mad Max film, released in US cinemas 40 years ago this month.
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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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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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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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This short Network Ten Eyewitness News segment shows actors Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Zoë Kravitz and Nicholas Hoult attending the out-of-competition premiere of Mad Max: Fury Road at the Cannes...