Dario is joined on-stage at the Electric Palace by two final year Digital Film students studying at the University of Brighton - Kathryn Bessant and James Calver - to discuss George Miller's 1979 Ozploitation action fest Mad Max. Mel Gibson takes the title role as Max Rockatanski, the fearless cop waging war with kill-crazy bikers who target his family. It is a road-scorching, neo-punk, take-no-prisoners combat set in the lawless Australian outback.
Neil and Dario expand on themes from the film and engage in a wider discussion covering topics including the future of the arts in higher education, neoliberal ideology, dystopian cinema, Sean Parker's Screening Room proposal and Louis CK's Horace and Pete.
Show Notes:
Times Higher article on graduate earnings
Requiem for the American Dream - Documentary on Noam Chomsky
Sean Parker's The Screening Room - Daily Beast article
Horace and Pete - Louis CK
WTF with Marc Maron - Interview with Louis CK
The Teacher's Soul and the Terrors of Performativity by Stephen J. Ball
London Review of Books article about H.G. Adler's The Wall
Kala Azar (w/ dir. Janis Rafa)
Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes (w/dir. Caroline Catz)
Radio On (w/ Mark Jenkin)
Ep122 - Projections Podcast (w/Mary Wild and Sarah Cleaver)
Ep121 - Wilderness (w/Justin Doherty and Neil Fox [obvs])
Ep120 Western (w/ Dr Hannah Paveck)
Andrew Dominik (Crossover Ep w/Silver Screen Video Podcast)
Conversations About Cinema (w/ Mark Cosgrove and Francesco Tava)
Romanian Cinema (w/Film Critic Andrei Gorzo)
Sex and the Cinema (w/Film Critic Beatrice Loayza)
Simon Stephenson (Set My Heart To Five)
Concert Films (Stop Making Sense and American Utopia)
So Long 2020
The Cinema of Walter Murch (w/ Dir. Jon Lefkovitz)
British Social Realism Now! (w/Sarah Gavron & Henry Blake)
(Repost) Ep 6 Goodbye Dragon Inn
Ang Lee (w/Ellen Cheshire & Francesco Signorello)
Sport Documentaries - w/ Dir. Finlay Pretsell (Time Trial)
Walkabout (w/Luc Roeg and Andrew Peirce)
Studying Film in 2020 (w/Freya Billington & Dr Catherine Wheatley)
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