Showing posts with label George Miller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Miller. Show all posts

May 29, 2024

Episode 687: Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Episode 687: Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga (2024) Guest Co-Hosts: Chris Stachiw, Father Malone

Nine years after we took our first trip down the Fury Road, we're re-introduced to Furiosa (Alyla Browne / Anya Taylor-Joy) and told the tale of her journey from The Green Place to the Citadel and beyond in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024).

This is a cross-over episode with The Kulturecast where Chris Stachiw, Mike White, and Father Malone discuss this latest entry in George Miller's stunning filmography.

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The Mad Max Series:

Links:
Become a supporter of The Projection Booth
Buy Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga on Blu-Ray

Music:
"You Are Awaited" - Tom Holkenborg

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May 15, 2019

Episode 415: The Mad Max Series

Special Guests: Roger Ward, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Bruce Spence, Luke Buckmaster, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Guest Co-Hosts: Mike Thompson, Ben Buckingham

On this epic episode of The Projection Booth, we remember the road warrior, the man we called Mad Max. In the roar of an engine, he lost everything and became a shell of a man, a burnt-out desolate man, a man haunted by the demons of his past, a man who wandered out into the wasteland. And it was here, in this blighted place, that he learned to live again.

Ben Buckingham and Mike Thompson join Mike White to discuss the ever-shifting landscape of George Miller’s Mad Max series from its audacious beginning as a bikie exploitation / revenge Mad Max (1979) to the post-apocalyptic Western Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) to the troublesome Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and concluding (?) with the spectacular Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

Interviews feature actors from three of the four films — Roger Ward, Vernon Wells, Virginia Hey, Bruce Spence, Hugh Keays-Byrne — as well as writer Luke Buckmaster, author of Miller and Max.

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Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga:

Interview: Terry Hayes

Bonus: Stone (1974):

Bonus: The Man from Hong Kong (1975):

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December 15, 2015

Episode 249: Contact (1997)

Special Guests: James V. Hart, William Fichtner, Lynda Obst & Seth Shostak
Guest Co-Hosts: Jamey Duvall & Emily Intravia

After nearly a decade of development, Robert Zemeckis's Contact came to the silver screen in 1997. The film stars Jodie Foster as a SETI scientist who discovers a message from space.

Mike is joined by The Feminine Critique's Emily Intravia and Movie Geeks United's Jamey Duvall. This episode features interviews with actor William Fichtner, producer Lynda Obst, screenwriter , and science adviser Seth Shostak.

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Bonus Interview: William Fichtner

Links:
Buy Contact on DVD
Buy Cosmos on DVD
Buy Contact by Carl Sagan
Buy Hello, He Lied by Lynda Obst
Visit the official Carl Sagan website
Visit Lynda Obst Productions Listen to Seth Shostak on Big Picture Science
Listen to Carl Sagan And Ann Druyan's Ultimate Mix Tape on Radiolab
Read Looking back at Robert Zemeckis' Contact by Simon Brew
Read an earlier draft of the Contact script
Read Carl Sagan's letter (politely) telling Warner Bros. their Contact script sucked by Michael Ann Dobbs
Visit the SETI Institute website

Music:
Original Soundtrack - Alan Silvestri
"Space-Time Continuum (Heaven And Hell, Part I)" - Vangelis
"Martian Hop" - The Ran-Dells

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