Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Grace Duffy and Deirdre Molumby, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road.
Through the ruin of the world stalks the ruin of the man. In a world that has descended into anarchy and chaos, a lone nomad finds himself embroiled in a brutal chase sequence across the wasteland. However, the characters quickly discover that the past is the one thing that they can’t outrun.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 206th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 18th February 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Kyle Buchanan at The New York Times puts together an oral history on the production of Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2020.
- Russ Fischer at /Film discusses whether Mad Max: Fury Road is a sequel or a reboot of the Mad Max franchise, May 2015.
- James Douglas at The Dissolve looks at the importance of mythmaking in the cinema of George Miller, May 2015.
- James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly looks at the Oscar success of Mad Max: Fury Road, February 2016.
- Benjamin Fritz at The Wall Street Journal looks at how Mad Max: Fury Road went from being a fourth film in an action franchise to a Best Picture contender, January 2016.
- Luke Buckmaster at The Guardian reports on the Oscar success of Mad Max: Fury Road, February 2016.
- Steven Soderbergh talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road, November 2017.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on Bong Joon Ho’s response to Mad Max: Fury Road, February 2020.
- George Miller talks to IndieWire about the release of the “Black and Chrome” version of Mad Max: Fury Road, October 2016.
- George Miller talks to The Independent about rendering Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white, April 2017.
- Steven Parish at Animation World Network looks at the bright and colourful world of Mad Max: Fury Road, June 2015.
- Eric Whipp talks to Post Perspective about the art of grading and colouring Mad Max: Fury Road, June 2015.
- Bryan Alexander at USA Today reports on the success of Mad Max: Fury Road at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2015.
- Nick Vivarelli at Variety reports on the reception of Mad Mad Max: Fury Road at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2015.
- A.A. Dowd at The A.V. Club looks at how Mad Max: Fury Road became one of the defining films of the decade, November 2019.
- Time publishes Donald Trump’s announcement of his presidential campaign, June 2015.
- Marc Santora and Al Baker at The New York Times report on Harvey Weinstein facing questioning over a groping charge, March 2015.
- James C. McKinley Jr. reports at The New York Times on the decision not to press charges against Harvey Weinstein after groping incident, April 2015.
- Alyssa Rosenberg at The Washington Post discusses the political limits of action movies like Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- Martin Scorsese writes at Harpers about the increasingly thin line between “art” and “content”, March 2021.
- George Miller talks to Uproxx about the insanity of editing Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist writes about the strange pop optimism to be found in the apocalypse of Mad Max: Fury Road, March 2020.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog discusses the literally revolutionary science-fiction of the mid-2010s, September 2016.
- William Hughes at The A.V. Club reports on how George Miller sees the future of Furiosa’s reign, August 2020.
- Margaret Sixel talks to NPR about editting Mad Max: Fury Road, February 2016.
- Margaret Sixel talks to The Los Angeles Times about how she became the editor on Mad Max: Fury Road, January 2016.
- Christopher Hooton at The Independent looks at the terrible editting on Taken 3, February 2016.
- Vashi Nedomansky demonstrates how centre-framing ensures that Mad Max: Fury Road remains coherent in a way that many contemporary movies do not, January 2016.
- Lesley Vanderwalt talks to The New York Times about the importance of costuming Mad Max: Fury Road, February 2016.
- Dave McNary at Variety reports on the casting for the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, Furiosa, October 2020.
- George Miller talks to Vanity Fair about working with Margaret Sixel on Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- Margaret Sixel talks to IndieWire about the challenges in editting Mad Max: Fury Road into something coherent, January 2016.
- Eric Diaz at Nerdist looks at how Marcia Lucas saved Star Wars, May 2019.
- Dayna Grant talks to Metro about tensions on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road between Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, July 2020.
- Charlize Theron talks to The Wall Street Journal about her challenges working with Tom Hardy on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, April 2016.
- Kevin Jagernauth at IndieWire reports on Tom Hardy’s public apology to George Miller for his conduct on the set of Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- John Seale talks to HitFix about the scale of the production on Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- Vashi Nedomansky at Vashi Visuals looks at the importance of centre-framing in keeping the action of Mad Max: Fury Road coherent, May 2015.
- Tom Breihan at The A.V. Club argues for Mad Max: Fury Road as the best action movie ever made, December 2017.
- Phil Pirello at SyFy Wire celebrates the Doof Warrior as a cultural icon, May 2020.
- George Miller talks to The New York Times about why Furiosa had to be female for Mad Max: Fury Road to work, January 2016.
- George Miller talks to IndieWire about how he sees Mad Max: Fury Road as the loudest silent movie ever made, May 2015.
- Mark Birrell at CinemaJam argues for Mad Max: Fury Road as a companion piece to The General, April 2017.
- Radha Vatsal at The Atlantic looks back on the female action film stars of the 1910s, March 2016.
- Naomi McDougall Jones at The Atlantic looks back on women’s influence in early silent Hollywood, February 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist argues for Mad Max: Fury Road as a distillation of “pure cinema”, March 2021.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist on Mad Max: Fury Road as an illustration of how arbitrary distinctions are between high and low culture, March 2021.
- George Miller talks to Den of Geek about how the idea for Mad Max: Fury Road came to him, May 2015.
- Matt Buchanan and Scott Ellis at The Sydney Morning Herald report on how local rains ruined plans to shoot Fury Road in Queensland, August 2011.
- George Miller discusses the challenges in getting his fourth Mad Max: Fury Road film off the ground with IndieWire, November 2011.
- Malaka Gharib reports at NPR on some of the controversies around shooting Mad Max: Fury Road in Namibia, March 2016.
- Simon Brew at Den of Geek looks at the influence of China on contemporary American blockbuster cinema, September 2014.
- Kristen Acuna at Business Insider looks at the Chinese version of Iron Man 3, May 2013.
- David S. Cohen at Variety looks at how Transformers: Age of Extinction was tailored to appeal to the Chinese market, July 2014.
- Catherine Shoard at The Guardian argues that modern blockbusters are becoming less dialogue-driven to appeal to the Chinese market, July 2016.
- Eve Ensler talks to Time about working with George Miller to ensure that Mad Max: Fury Road became a feminist action movie, May 2015.
- Spencer Kornhaber at The Atlantic discusses the simultaneous release of Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood music video, May 2015.
- Matt Kamen at Wired reports on the “men’s rights activists” protesting Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- The National Post reports on the reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road among the “manosphere”, May 2015.
- David Rutrelle at We Hunted the Mammoth looks at the absurd reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road among misogynist sections of the internet, May 2015.
- Erik Kain at Forbes discusses the strange fixation on labelling Rey as a “Mary Sue” among certain corners of the internet, December 2017.
- Joanna Robinson at Vanity Fair discusses the misogynistic reaction against the portrayal of Clara in Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who, December 2015.
- Rhian E. Jones at The Guardian reports of Margaret Thatcher as “the first Spice Girl”, April 2013.
- Eric Andre asks Mel B to define Margaret Thatcher’s “girl power” on The Eric Andre Show, August 2018.
- Scott Beggs at Film School Rejects argues for the importance of Nux’s redemption in Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly looks at that iconic shot of Furiosa’s scream from Mad Max: Fury Road, April 2018.
- Jacob T. Swinney puts together a celebration of 100 Years/100 Shots to mark a century of cinema, April 2016.
- Julia Teti at The Playlist looks at the care and craft of the worldbuilding in Mad Max: Fury Road, August 2018.
- Richard Brody at The New Yorker debates the complicated question of Furiosa’s complicity in Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
- Noah Berlatsky at The Guardian looks at the increasing prominence of older female action heroes, May 2019.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist discusses how Terminator: Dark Fate cynically undermines Terminator 2: Judgment Day, November 2019.
- Feminist Mad Max on Tumblr.
- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley talks to Esquire about the challenges in making Mad Max: Fury Road, May 2015.
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