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'A scholar, content with life, encounters a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. Their conversation, in a hotel room in Istanbul, leads to consequences neither would have expected.' (Production summary)
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Watching and Waiting
2022
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review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 December 2022; (p. 9) -
Fable or Fact : A Storyteller First and Foremost
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 447 2022; (p. 62)
— Review of Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022 single work film/TV'For the casual moviegoer unconcerned by matters of auteurship, it can still come as something of a shock to learn that the person behind the original Mad Max trilogy (1979–85), as well as its decade-defining follow-up, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), also brought us the madcap animal antics of Babe: Pig in the City (1998) and the all-singing, all-dancing penguin colony of Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet 2 (2011). George Miller has one of the most eclectic oeuvres in modern cinema, but all his films are defined by a rich, seemingly limitless vein of imagination, as well as by the technical and aesthetic mastery necessary to mine it. Whether dabbling in live-action or 3D animation – whether wrangling penguins, pigs, or eighteen-wheeler ‘War Rigs’ – Miller is a storyteller first and foremost. It stands to reason that his latest film is a story about stories themselves: where they come from, what they mean to us, and what their place is (if any) in the modern world.' (Introduction)
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Three Thousand Years of Longing : George Miller Spins a Genie-in-the-bottle Fairytale Starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2022;
— Review of Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022 single work film/TV'We tell ourselves stories in order to live – or, if you're Australian director George Miller, to smash up post-apocalyptic monster trucks, put a witchy Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer into a duel with the devil, or have computer-generated penguins shimmy and shake to a jukebox of pop bangers.'
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Three Thousand Years of Longing Review : Djinn in Need of a Tonic
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 September 2022;
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‘We’re Hardwired for Stories’ : Mad Max Director George Miller on Myths, Medicine and a Pointy-eared Idris Elba
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 August 2022;
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From Loveland to Blueback : 10 Australian Films to Look Out for in 2022
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 3 January 2022;
— Review of Loveland 2022 single work film/TV ; Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022 single work film/TV ; Seriously Red 2022 single work film/TV ; The Survival of Kindness 2022 single work film/TV ; Blueback 2022 single work film/TV ; Gold 2021 single work film/TV ; You Can Go Now 2022 single work film/TV ; Elvis 2022 single work film/TV ; The Drover's Wife : The Legend of Molly Johnson 2020 single work film/TV -
Three Thousand Years of Longing Review : Djinn in Need of a Tonic
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 4 September 2022;
— Review of Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022 single work film/TV -
Three Thousand Years of Longing : George Miller Spins a Genie-in-the-bottle Fairytale Starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , September 2022;
— Review of Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022 single work film/TV'We tell ourselves stories in order to live – or, if you're Australian director George Miller, to smash up post-apocalyptic monster trucks, put a witchy Cher and Michelle Pfeiffer into a duel with the devil, or have computer-generated penguins shimmy and shake to a jukebox of pop bangers.'
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Fable or Fact : A Storyteller First and Foremost
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 447 2022; (p. 62)
— Review of Three Thousand Years of Longing 2022 single work film/TV'For the casual moviegoer unconcerned by matters of auteurship, it can still come as something of a shock to learn that the person behind the original Mad Max trilogy (1979–85), as well as its decade-defining follow-up, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), also brought us the madcap animal antics of Babe: Pig in the City (1998) and the all-singing, all-dancing penguin colony of Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet 2 (2011). George Miller has one of the most eclectic oeuvres in modern cinema, but all his films are defined by a rich, seemingly limitless vein of imagination, as well as by the technical and aesthetic mastery necessary to mine it. Whether dabbling in live-action or 3D animation – whether wrangling penguins, pigs, or eighteen-wheeler ‘War Rigs’ – Miller is a storyteller first and foremost. It stands to reason that his latest film is a story about stories themselves: where they come from, what they mean to us, and what their place is (if any) in the modern world.' (Introduction)
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George Miller Film Receives a Six-minute Standing Ovation at Cannes
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , May 2022; -
‘We’re Hardwired for Stories’ : Mad Max Director George Miller on Myths, Medicine and a Pointy-eared Idris Elba
2022
single work
column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 August 2022; -
Watching and Waiting
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 December 2022; (p. 9)