MUSEYON GUIDES » Australia & New Zealand http://www.museyon.com/blog A Curated Guide to Your Obsessions Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:08:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Mapping ‘Mad Max’ http://www.museyon.com/blog/2009/07/21/mapping-mad-max/ http://www.museyon.com/blog/2009/07/21/mapping-mad-max/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:39:32 +0000 Heather C http://www.museyon.com/blog/?p=769 mad-maxWith summer road trips in mind, New York Times movie critic A. O. Scott chooses 1979’s ‘Mad Max’ as this week’s Critics’ Pick. He may love the movie for its dystopian vision, take-no-prisoners action and Mel Gibson’s blue eyes (trust us, it’s in the video), but we love the movie’s dramatic setting most of all.

Scott says the film’s sweeping, dusty panoramas give the it a Wild West feel and we couldn’t agree more…

 

 

To see it for yourself head to Melbourne, Australia, and hit the open road, ‘Mad Max’ style. See if you can find a 1973 Ford Falcon XB Coupe (that’s the car that played the Interceptor), and be sure to grab a Melway map to help you make the journey out of the city.

Still don’t know where to go? Take a virtual tour of ‘Mad Max’ locations on Google Earth, with the help of the downloadable plug-in at Peter Barton’s comprehensive Mad Max FAQ. The Melbourne native has compiled an exhaustive list of locations from all three ‘Mad Max’ films, even designing a convenient day trip.

Scott and Barton aren’t the only people with ‘Mad Max’ on the brain. Some 25 years after ‘Beyond Thunderdome,’ the third Max film, director George Miller is planning to resume plans to film a fourth (without Mel Gibson). Plans for ‘Fury Road’ were halted in 2003, but rumor has it Miller has already begun location scouting for the film. Not only that, 3-D anime and video game versions of the films are expected to launch in 2011 or 2012. Talk about to the maximum Max.

Discover more of Australia in Museyon Guides’ Film + Travel. Gemma Blackwood is your guide to Australia’s Great Southern Filmscapes.

image: ccdoh1/Flickr

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Photo: ©Villena See it on pg. 14 of our Film + Travel guide to Europe.

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Hey Sydneysiders! It’s that time again … the 56th installment of the Sydney Film Festival is in full swing. Featuring a collection of shorts and features, the festival includes selections from Australia as well as 40 other countries. Need help deciding what to see? No worries, the festival breaks down films into categories like “Give Me a Kiss,” “Take Me on a Journey” and “Freak Me Out” to help you choose how to experience the festival.

Act quickly! The festival runs from June 3-14.

Image from 1966’s Daisies by Czech director Vera Chytilová, part of the Sydney Film Festival’s Girls Girls Girls retrospective series.

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Q: Which film was released to coincide with a national tourism campaign?

Answer after the jump…

A: Baz Luhrman’s 2008 epic Australia was deliberately scheduled for release alongside a massive international campaign for Tourism Australia.

Want to find more about Australia? Pick up Museyon’s Guide to Film + Travel, where Gemma Blackwood is your guide to the Great Southern Filmscapes of Australia and New Zealand, in stores this June.

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From the rugged outback to Sydney’s famous skyline, Australia (and its neighbor New Zealand) offers the camera landscapes and lifestyles full of contrast, inspiring everyone from Bollywood directors to Disney’s Pixar—who animated Sydney for Finding Nemo. Melbourne local Gemma Blackwood is your guide for an “armchair tour” of the Land Down Under.

About Your Guide: Gemma Blackwood had an unhealthy youth of obsessive movie-watching, and armchair travel convinced her that the grass is always greener on the other side of the screen, which explains why she is currently finishing a research PhD, focusing on film and touristic desire at The University of Melbourne.

photo: iStock

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