With Furious 7 hitting theaters over the weekend and excitement building about the release of Mad Max: Fury Road next month, I was in the mood for an Australian car movie. Director James Wan, by the way, was schooled in Australia, and cites Mad Max as an influence on Saw. (See Mark Hartley's excellent documentary Not Quite Hollywood.) Director George Miller, in turn, was a product of the Australian exploitation scene in the early 1970s, making his first short film, Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 in 1971 as he was completing his medical studies to become a doctor. Peter Weir, slightly older than Miller, began directing television shows at the tender age of 24. He made a slew of short films before The Cars...[Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...]
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