GM screening MM2 at SXSW; FR screening possible

[seriz]

no, it's the format of the image :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anamorphic_format

EDIT ! AH !

[biolumen]

Ha! "George Miller" is trending on Twitter.

"The first time I'm watching this on the big screen in 32 yrs." Dir George Miller.

Only standing ovation of the fest so far: George Miller introducing THE ROAD WARRIOR. #sxsw

THE ROAD WARRIOR is the only 35mm print screening in all of @sxsw.

After rewatching Road Warrior and screening 7 minutes of Fury Road, George Miller just realized what bits he accidentally recycled

[DGSimo]

Fury Road footage shown including a 7 minute fight scene between Max and Furiosa along with a new trailer that will also debut at CinemaCon next month.

Footage had callbacks to the old films like a music box and shotgun misfire.

[Ol' Coyote]

Fury Road footage shown including a 7 minute fight scene between Max and Furiosa along with a new trailer that will also debut at CinemaCon next month.

Footage had callbacks to the old films like a music box and shotgun misfire.

*scream like a fangirl*

Will the 7 minute footage ever get released ?

[seriz]

Will the 7 minute footage ever get released ?

maybe in the movie, but, who knows ?

[biolumen]

SXSW 2015: TASTING THE MADNESS OF MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

We open on the burning sand. A figure rises, buried just under the surfaced. He is in brutal shape, the victim of untold horrors. Encased in a metallic mask from the dark ages, chained to the scene of impacted metal that used to be a car of sorts. He rises and eyes an escape. Whatever happened to destroy the car has given him room to get away from his current predicament.

“When we first meet Max, he’s like a caged animal,” explained Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller prior to showing the clip. He’s standing in front of a mostly full Paramount Theater in Austin, Texas earlier this evening. On a night in which they could have seen any number of independent premieres or attended any number of posh parties, about 800 of the nerdiest kids at the South by Southwest Film Festival chose to see a movie from 1981. A special evening presentation of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior punctuated by a conversation with its legendary director.

You can’t blame us for wanting to spend some time in the presence of a legend. Even HitFix‘s Drew McWeeny, who had the honor of moderating the discussion, called it “a dream come true.”

For the appetizer, Warner Bros. cut a brand new print of The Road Warrior that looked absolutely gorgeous. It’s a film with imperfections — a great deal of it looks and sounds like it’s from another era — but there are moments of sheer brilliants. Like the tracking shots of Max (Mel Gibson) in his V8 Interceptor. In his post-screening comments, Miller would go on to tell us that this was his favorite car from the original movies. Within the experience of the film, however, it’s a towering, menacing, furious character on its own. The Road Warrior moves with amazing energy on the big screen, even now. We’ve spent years being desensitized to big action. Hell, many of us quite literally enjoyed the insanity of Furious 7 in the same theater less than 24-hours earlier. Despite all of that, The Road Warrior still looms over us as a godly achievement in action cinema. To see it on the big screen is to feel its relentless spirit reach out and punch you in the chest.

And then there was more. Having finished his latest entry in the Mad Max franchise “only two days ago,” Miller saw fit to bestow upon us an action sequence from early in the second act. It’s a raw, dirty and violent scene involving Tom Hardy as Max and Charlize Theron as Furiosa. Hardy is the figure rising from the sand that I described above. Max is in some sort of trouble and he’s stumbled upon Theron and a group of young women who are being chased by what Miller describes as “several armadas.” It’s a great close-quarters sequence that leaves mouths agape and action-loving hearts desperate for more.

Shortly thereafter, Miller shows us an extended trailer that was cut exclusively for the audience at SXSW. If you’ve seen some of the previous Fury Road trailers, you get the idea of what played out. This one gave us a bit more of the story: Theron’s Furiosa is a veteran smuggler across the wasteland. When she meets Max, she’s in all kinds of trouble. Cue the destruction.

There’s no sense in me giving you the beat-by-beat. Even the scene we were shown was completely out of context, leaving us with very little additional knowledge of what the hell Fury Road is really about. What we did get — overwhelmingly so — is a sense of tone and scope. This movie, which is due in theaters on May 15, is the work of an insane kid playing in the biggest, most expensive and dangerous toy box in the history of cinema. It looks so fucking cool.

The director’s words were as brief as the footage. He made mention of having to thank everyone who worked on Fury Road for sticking with it, as he has the propensity to pursue perfection in his work to an unhealthy degree. More than 30 years removed from his most iconic work, he is still relentless. Just as we found his past and present work to be wildly entertaining, we found Miller himself to be as enthusiastic as a first time filmmaker who just his first dream project. He loves his big, dangerous sandbox and all the medieval toys inside it. He seems to relish in how much the latest filmmaking technology allowed him to do more — to get the shots that were impossible in the 80s, to put the audience much closer to the action and, as he explained, to put his performers in more peril.

If only a fraction of this man’s enthusiasm ends up on-screen with Fury Road, we’re in for a fun ride. Any more than that and we might get something truly special. Everything we’ve seen thus far indicates that special is the order of the day. And what a lovely, lovely, lovely day it is.

http://filmschoolrejects.com/features/s ... review.php

[biolumen]

Video of the Q&A with Miller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk9Jio1WpcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8QhW15pfFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jMMHJ6A7tU

[Taipan]

Thanks for the info biolumen, lots of insight!

[DGSimo]

Loved watching the Q&A. Thanks biolumen!

I had forgotten about CinemaCon because I thought it was being held after Fury Road came out but it's actually kicking off on April 20th in Las Vegas, thats the event Miller mentions. CinemaCon, for those not aware, is a convention for cinema and theater owners and managers where new technology is showcased and discussed along with the major studios showing up to present their summer and year lineups with trailers and stars in attendance.

There's a good chance it'll be around that week the next Fury Road trailer will debut. It's happened before with CinemaCon and usually they debut right after they screen before those attending.

[DGSimo]

Last night, following a very special screening of The Road Warrior at SXSW, director George Miller treated us to seven minutes of action-packed new footage from Mad Max: Fury Road, as well as an exclusive new trailer. The new footage was brutal and gorgeous, and gave us a nice taste of Charlize Theron’s intensely bad ass Imperator Furiosa.

After the end credits rolled on The Road Warrior (they really don’t make movies like that anymore), Miller came out for a Q&A. The director answered a couple of questions before revealing that he’d brought some Fury Road footage to show us, explaining that what we were about to see was a seven-minute scene from the beginning of the second act.

The footage opened with what Miller described as a “preamble,” featuring quick flashes of scenes from throughout the film — just little glimpses at huge action moments, like the epic chase sequence. When the second act opens, Max has been captured and dominated. Miller says he is like a “caged animal” and his frame of mind is “disturbed.” Tom Hardy is wearing a rusty metal mask over his face and finds himself chained to the lifeless body of Nicholas Hoult’s Nux, unable to free himself. Max attempts to use his sawed-off shotgun, but the bullets are dead and fizzle out, a callback to The Road Warrior, but one that Miller says was not intentional.

Max carries Nux’s body over his shoulders across the wasteland, until he encounters Furiosa near a big rig, where a trio of women dressed in all white — including one who is pregnant — are bathing themselves with the truck’s water supply. One of them removes a gnarly chastity belt contraption from her body, hinting that these women have been rescued from a life of servitude. Max points his useless gun at the women, demanding water and signaling for one of them to cut his chain. He requests one of the seemingly more docile women, immediately recognizing Furiosa as a threat.

That doesn’t stop Furiosa from launching into an attack at an opportune moment, and the two tumble around on the desert floor as Furiosa brutally assaults Max. The feel of water awakens Nux, who tries to assist his fellow prisoner as a rumble of engines is heard in the distance. Across the desert, through a haze, we see a line of vehicles approaching. One of the rescued women asks, “Is that the wind, or just a furious fixation?” The three women urgently attempt to wrangle Max using the chains to which he and Nux are still attached.

Furiosa loses her gun, and although Max snatches it, the clip has fallen out. Nux grabs it and Max slides the gun onto the clip in one fluid movement while still wrestling with Furiosa. As he gains the upper hand and Furiosa is pinned to the ground, he shoots three quick shots into the sand around her head, and the footage cuts to black.

Miller explained that he wanted to keep the authentic feel to the film’s characters, and like The Road Warrior, not only is there very little dialogue (Max doesn’t speak for the first 20 minutes), but there’s very little explanation of back story. The director says he has fully developed the characters and knows each of their individual stories, just as he has in previous films, but it’s a relief to hear that unlike with most contemporary films, there will be little exposition.

After answering a couple of questions from the audience, Miller revealed that he had cut an exclusive trailer for the fest (it will only play one more time at CinemaCon in Las Vegas). This trailer features much of the footage we’ve previously seen: the fiery tornado, Nux shouting “What a lovely day!” in hot pursuit, and the extended chase sequence involving a stable of vehicles with crazy attachments, including the truck with a stage and a guy shredding on his guitar. It’s incredible.

But the trailer also featured new footage and had far more dialogue then we’ve previously heard. There’s a scene in which Furiosa meets someone with her rig, offering them an exchange of 3,000 gallons of gasoline before revealing that the set-up is a trap. Max pops his head up and starts wheeling the truck around as a battle begins.

You guys are already plenty pumped for Mad Max: Fury Road, and after seeing this footage, I can tell you that your excitement is definitely not unwarranted. Theron and Hardy are absolutely brutal, and Miller recaptures the cinematic magic from The Road Warrior, making the special screening of that film entirely appropriate for the special footage that followed.

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