After the break you can find the latest episode of Travis Bickle on the Riviera, the world's only movie podcast. With your hosts Joe McCulloch, Tucker Stone and Sean Witzke.
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0:00:00 - 1:07:39 - This week, we are joined by resident expert Joe McCulloch. And we discuss the action movie of the moment, Mad Max Fury Road. That's it.
And we also mention: The Road Warrior, Mad Max, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Brendan McCarthy, Gus Van Sant getting booed at Cannes, George Miller's other career as a children's film director, Cirque Du Soliel, the Power Rangers, Michel Foucault, Vin Diesel as The Last Witch Hunter, the Riddick series, M. Night Shalyman, After Earth, The Happening, the Bourne series, Karl Urban, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Matt Damon, All the Real Girls, Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride in All the Real Girls deleted scenes, Henry Cavill, The Cold Light of Day, Doomsday in Batman v Superman, Common's acting career, George Miller's potential Justice League movie, Run All Night, Smokin Aces, Hayao Miyazaki, Darkman, Natural Born Killers, Avatar, Transformers 4, Neveldine & Taylor, Vanishing Point, Kill Bill vol. 1, Kung Fu Hustle, The Raid, Daniel Craig in Star Wars 7, Brad Pitt, Channing Tatum, Busby Berkley, Intolerance, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Spartacus, Ben Hur, Metropolis, Cleopatra, Terminator 2, Aliens, Alien 3, Sigourney Weaver, Domino, Ghosts of Mars, Meryl Streep, Charlize Theron, Directors in their 70s: including Chaplin, Polanski, Woody Allen, Ozu, Scorsese, Kurosawa, and Bergman, Tom Hardy, Michael Bay, Paul Greengrass, Benny Hill, 1980s Punisher comics, Troma movies, Guy DeBord, Eve Ensler, Carrie Ann Moss, Linda Hamilton, Freakwave, Waterworld, The Cars That Ate Paris, 2000 AD, Crisis, Pat Mills, Garth Ennis, Dredd, Fast & The Furious, Sergei Eisenstein, Predator, Sergio Leone, Batman, and Jupiter Ascending.
Next Week: Morgan Jeske returns or Jupiter Ascending ascends or something else.
Our outro music this week: "Gyro Saves Max" by Brian May from The Road Warrior. And our intro, as always, is from Escape From New York.
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THE SEVENTH AGE, DEATH: Paul Reiser from The Paul Reiser Show.
This talk given by John Soule and 2nd Unit Cinematographer David Burr, https://vimeo.com/127381179, is amazing. The most inside baseball shit ever, it's a less cautious version of the interview Joe alluded to in the podcast, Soule repeatedly says this doesn't go past these four walls (but I guess the Society just dumped it on the internet anyway).
It's a fairly complete outline of the trials and frustrations of mega-budget digital film making told by a great speaker, with various stories that make the whole things seem like even thirty years ago the production would have been a complete disaster with several actual real deaths.
Posted by: Frank | 2015.05.19 at 02:51
Great episode. And Frank, thanks for the link, that looks amazing.
Posted by: Eric | 2015.05.19 at 12:10
Can't argue with much of anything you said.
Posted by: Tim Hamilton | 2015.05.26 at 10:29
Bummed me out when the Interceptor went down too. Good 'cast yo.
Posted by: J. Hopkins | 2015.05.27 at 07:02
This was a great episode.
Regarding whether or not Mad Max has a daughter, I think these Mad Max movies aren't really trying to maintain any real continuity between them. They're more like Leone's Clint Eastwood movies, only in these the Man With No Name has the same name (and vaguely the same back story) each time. That's why the same actors pop up in the different movies playing different characters (a la Lee Van Cleef), why the apocalypse has different causes in each installment, and why he'll probably have the Interceptor back the next time around. If the next movie goes back to Furiosa and continues the story directly, it will be a new thing in the series.
Posted by: T. Hodler | 2015.06.04 at 12:37
Oh yeah, me and Morgan talk about some of the same things in the episode after this one. I hope they don't make Furiosa 2, I hope they make Charlize the female gunman looking for revenge in the next one like Sharon Stone in the Quick and the Dead/Bloody Benton in Sukiyaki.
Posted by: Sean Witzke | 2015.06.04 at 14:37