MAD MAX Free Rolling Roadshow

Rated R; 93min; Director:George Miller (1979)  

Location: Rolling Roadshow

This show is a part of the Fantastic Fest Signature Series, Click to See More

This free outdoor screening at the parking lot of the South Lamar Alamo is brought to you by Fantastic Fest - week-long festival featuring the best in new science-fiction, fantasy, horror, animation, crime, Asian, and all around badass cinema. Fantastic Fest 2008 takes place at the Alamo South Lamar from September 18-25. Check out the amazing schedule and buy badges for Fantastic Fest at www.fantasticfest.com.

This year Fantastic Fest takes a look at Australia's cinema of blood and gasoline with our NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD Retrospective series. In addition to MAD MAX on September 12 we will screen the sequel, THE ROAD WARRIOR on Friday September 19, also at the parking lot of the South Lamar Alamo. Both of these screenings will feature authentic Australian food, including delectable Shrimp on the Barbys. We will also have a Vegemite-eating contest for those who think they can handle it.

Click here for the full slate of "Ozsploitation" titles, including the awesome and unmissable new documentary about the golden age of Aussie mayhem NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD.

Not content to just earn the title of Most Important Action Film in Australian History, MAD MAX is flat-out responsible for kick-starting an entire unstoppable genre of pedal-to-the-metal mayhem! Following its release, celluloid documentations of a near-future world gone wild have appeared in countless languages, starring hundreds of international actors and cluttering video shelves with gasoline-hungry sunburnt desert warriors.

Yet despite many top-notch entries during the exponential growth of the nuclear annihilation entertainment industry, it goes without saying that George Miller's flagship contribution remains unmatched. Mel Gibson is 'Mad' Max Rockatansky, a law-keeping family man in a pre-post-apocalyptic world that dangles mere inches above total societal implosion. Marauding criminals roam the Earth and live beyond rule, their numbers increasing as the police exhaust all their means to keep the inevitable at bay. But when a vicious maniac and his gang snuff out the few people Max cares for, he's transformed into an unstoppable force of raw, burning retribution, and the film becomes a whiplash-inducing catalogue of two-fisted, blue-collar, auto/human damage.

Though shot on a modest budget, this 40-million horsepower beast skimps on nothing but social conscience, as everyone from bikers to babies are targeted for full-scale, wholesale slaughter. MAD MAX was originally released in the US in de-Aussified dubbed form, but we're pleased to present a recently-struck 35mm print with the original audio track, complete with all the muttered colloquialisms and down-under swearing you desire. So follow the red asphalt to the Alamo for total mechanized vengeance in the most crucial, influential and shockingly perfect exploitation masterpiece to ever tear open the Australian highway! (Zack Carlson)

Special Thanks to the Austin Parks Foundation.

Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

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