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After discussing them this summer, George Miller tells Top Gear he’s in talk with WB for the Mad Max: Fury Road sequels, but first he says, “I want to do a small film without special effects before I do any of that, just to do it quickly. We shot Fury Road for eight months… that’s a lot. Every day in the heat and the dust, doing these stunts, it’s very wearing. We’ve got two more planned, but at some point in the future.”
Listen to our own Nick Newman discuss the career of Hong Sang-soo on the latest episode of The Auteur Museum:
Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has given a Reddit AMA:
Pay attention to how you write, not simply to what you write.
Uproxx‘s Keith Phipps on why The Martian is a better companion piece to Alien than Prometheus:
“In space, no one can hear you scream,” read the posters to Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. But one of the most famous taglines in film history isn’t just an evocative phrase: It’s good physics. Part of what makes Alien such an effective horror film is the lengths it goes to make the experience of traveling through space feel real, and really dangerous, even without a hungry Xenomorph stowing away. Alien‘s characters seem perpetually on the verge of exhaustion, thanks to the everyday business of staying alive.
Watch Michael Moore discuss Where to Invade Next in a NYFF talk:
Green Room (our review) will open on April 1st, 2016, then nationwide two weeks later.
The New Yorker‘s James Douglas on what disaster films miss about death:
In the new movie “Everest,” which is about an expedition on that mountain in 1996, the most poignant of the five deaths portrayed onscreen is one that hews carefully to real events. The mountaineer Rob Hall (played by Jason Clarke) is trapped overnight near the summit in violent weather, and he is unable to descend the following day. In a moment likely adapted from transcripts of radio exchanges that occurred that weekend, Hall’s team at Base Camp patches him through to his pregnant wife in New Zealand, who desperately encourages him to keep moving. But with his oxygen regulator blocked by ice, and his hands and feet freezing into uselessness, he dies on the slopes.