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According to prolific cult director Brian Trenchard-Smith, Ozploitation is 'genre homage through an Australian lens: boisterous, anti-authoritarian, wide angle'.
Trenchard-Smith should know – he made...
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Some of the most striking film posters in the NFSA collection originate from Poland.
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This poster is a bold image of Max Rockatansky's iconic, souped-up black car.
The poster has a satisfying menace to its design with the word 'Interceptor' written across the top as if scrawled in...
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'Quelle belle journée' ('What a lovely day') reads the tagline on this French poster for the release of Mad Max: Fury Road.
The line itself was delivered by one of the War Boys in the film, Nux (...
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This poster for the release of Mad Max 2 in the former Yugoslavia uses the title Drumski Ratnik (Road Warrior, echoing the film's US title) and tagline 'Odlučiće jedan čovek' ('one man will decide...
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This advertising flyer is for the 1983 cinema re-release of Mad Max in Australia.
To emphasise the point the film's title is accompanied by a dominating number 1 and the addition of prominent text, '...
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'The streets were transformed into an instrument of revenge, justice was only a distant memory, they prayed only not to meet him' is the literal translation at the top of this poster for the Italian...
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Pobesneli Maks (literally 'enraged Max') headlines this poster for the release of Mad Max in the former Yugoslavia.
The poster features a bold central image of the armed Max above his Interceptor car...
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A black, white and yellow poster featuring the French title Le Réveil Dans La Terreur (The Awakening in Terror) and Flemish title Het Vreselijk Ontwaken (The Awful Awakening). The poster also...
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The Czech title 'Zapadakov' ('Outstation') appears below an image of a rock outcrop against a yellow and brown background.
Overlaying the centre of the image is an Australian postage stamp featuring...
