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
Peter Bogdanovich and The Great Buster
Tokyo Story
Film Editing with Katie Bryer
Sometimes Always Never
The Uncertain Kingdom
Women Make Film (Mark Cousins)
5 Years & 100 Episodes
Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions)
The Cinematic Voice
Berlinale 2020 Part 2
Berlinale 2020 Part 1
Adam Mars-Jones
Filmstock Extra - Kieran Evans
Filmstock Extra - M.R. Carey
Filmstock Extra - Jeanie Finlay
2019 review
BFI Musicals Pt. 2 / Funny Girl
Ep94a BFI Musicals
Filmstock12
The Lobster (w/ Solem Quartet Live Score)
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