Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (Miller, 1981): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.20pm
BFI Southbank introduction:
The London Action Festival team bring their roadshow ‘World’s
Greatest Screening’ series to BFI Southbank with this special event
celebrating George Miller’s acclaimed action masterpiece, Mad Max 2: The
Road Warrior. Among other surprises, the extra components to the evening will
include an exclusive on-screen contribution by George Miller himself; a
look at how the 1982 classic was a game-changer for the vibrant
franchise; an in-person interview with Iain Smith OBE, BAFTA-winning
Producer of Mad Max: Fury Road, where he’ll look at what it takes to
produce for George Miller and talk about his involvement in bringing the
franchise back; and a live performance of the “Mad Max Medley” by The
McBain Quartet led by Patrick Savage.
Chicago Reader review:
George Miller’s 1981 sequel to his 1980 sleeper, Mad Max. Set in a
postapocalyptic Australia, where nomadic tribes battle each other for
precious gasoline, it’s a highly stylized, roaringly dynamic action film
that shuns plot and characterization in favor of a crazy iconographical
melange—it’s like the work of a western punk trucker de Sade. The style
is more spectacular and comic-bookish than that of the original, which
isn’t all to the good: without the crude but functional motivations of
the first film, the violence here comes to seem somewhat arbitrary and
distasteful. But for pure rhythm and visual panache, Miller has few real
competitors; the climactic chase, with its deft variation of tempo and
point of view, is a minor masterpiece.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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