“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad Max: Fury Road!”
Enjoy the trailer for It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad Max: Fury Road!”
Mad Max: Fury Road without Digital Effects
Consequences of Sound has footage from Mad Max: Fury Road sans digital effects.
Interview with Margaret Sixel
The Los Angeles Times has an interview with Margaret Sixel, editor of Mad Max: Fury Road. “I wanted every single shot to progress the story. I don’t like repetition. And I think we applied that rule religiously throughout the film….I watched a film last night and they kept […]
Fallout 4 and the Horrors of the Open World
Bethesda Softworks’ Fallout 4, like its predecessors, surrounds the player with a retro-futurist, post-apocalyptic world abstracted from the good ol’, partially mythical USA of educational filmstrips, with sprinkles of that era’s sci-fi upping the ante. In due time, you’ll be battling through a harsh realm of mad science […]
“Even dogs assail’d their masters, all save one”
At The Brattle Film Notes, Kerry Fristoe writes about The Road Warrior and Lord Byron’s poem, “Darkness,” in “The Road Warrior or Mad Max and Lord Byron Walk into a Bar…”
Anne Billson Interviews George Miller
Anne Billson has posted a 1985 interview she did with director George Miller (the Mad Max films). Miller talks about many things including Aunty Entity’s probable past as a hero and Max as, in Mel Gibson’s words, “a closet human being.” (Thanks, Matt!)
The Cultural Gutter 