{"id":13353,"date":"2023-04-13T01:09:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T01:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2024-03-22T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:28:11","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-montgomery-markland-about-his-movie-malibu-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=13353","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Montgomery Markland about his movie Malibu Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark and Matt Pegas <\/a>speak with filmmaker, Montgomery Markland<\/a>, about his film Malibu Road, which he both directed and starred in. Malibu Road is available to watch for free on Tubi<\/a>, and for purchase on Apple TV and Amazon. While the pandemic delayed Malibu Road’s theatrical release, Montgomery has further plans for multipicture deals.<\/p>\n

“Fast living Los Angelenos are targeted by the Central Intelligence Agency during Operation Midnight Climax, part of MKUltra. The experience takes a turn for the deadly during New Year’s Eve 1960 and now a professor, a starlet and the workers at a hotel with a questionable reputation must rediscover reality or be trapped in an endless cycle of sex, drugs and murder in ‘paradise.'”<\/p>\n

–Malibu Road (2021) IMDb\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Montgomery Markland has an idiosyncratic resume. Originally from Dallas, Montgomery was a state and local reporter in Austin, worked in the Texas state legislature on policy, was\u00a0 then a producer, president, and CCO at a number of video game companies, before working in Hollywood. Follow Montgomery on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Topics:<\/p>\n

Applying videogame design principles to Cinema
\nThe\u00a0Meisner acting technique<\/a>
\nMKUltra connections to university professors and Hollywood (eg. Irvin Keshner<\/a>)
\nTimothy Leary’s prediction that video games had the potential to recreate psychedelic trips<\/a>
\nThe History of the Albatross Hotel<\/a> in Malibu and connections to Old Hollywood
\nCinemaphotographic techniques used to capture the psychedelic aesthetic
\nDistorting reality in stories as representations of dreams (eg. traumnovelle), and influences from\u00a0David Lynch
\nInfluence from soap operas, telenovelas, and 90s Cinemax
\nThe set design, recreating the aesthetics of the 60s and 70s
\nInfluences from Jungian archetypes, as well as Ancient Greek, Hindu, and Buddhist mythology (eg. Timothy Leary on the Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/a>)
\nHunter S. Thompson
\nAlfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo
\nMalibu Road’s filming locations, including Malibu State Park<\/a> and Will Rogers State Historic Park<\/a>
\nThe politicization of entertainment, and why overtly political conservative media fails
\nReasons to be optimistic about opportunities in entertainment via niche markets
\nThe Banking crisis, Economic Death Spiral<\/a>, and narratives of collapse<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Malibu-Road-large.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Robert Stark and Matt Pegas speak with filmmaker, Montgomery Markland, about his film Malibu Road, which he both directed and starred in. Malibu Road is available to watch for free on Tubi, and for purchase on Apple TV and Amazon. While the pandemic delayed Malibu Road’s theatrical release, Montgomery has further plans for multipicture deals. … Continue reading Robert Stark interviews Montgomery Markland about his movie Malibu Road<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,807,819,1103,542,988,1364,1002,221,339,623,457,33,685,291,1146,6,203,476,336,429,470,117,607,583,1258,156,473,459,741,417,1004,710,12,939,428,653,1105,521,276,684,371,1363,116,270,926,1362,1191,670,624,1361,1052,425,733,169,636,172,622,327,86,400,136,18,1338,762,1384,238,1207,1365,516,1039,451,802,1318,1277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","category-1970s","category-1990s","category-acting","category-aesthetics","category-aldous-huxley","category-alfred-hitchcock","category-alice-in-wonderland","category-american-culture","category-ancient-greece","category-architecture","category-art","category-banking","category-beatniks","category-beverly-hills","category-buddhism","category-california","category-capitalism","category-carl-jung","category-censorship","category-cinema","category-conformity","category-conservatives","category-conspiracy-theories","category-consumerism","category-coronavirus","category-corporations","category-counterculture","category-culture","category-david-lynch","category-despair","category-dreams","category-drugs","category-economics","category-enter-the-void","category-film","category-film-noire","category-gaspar-noe","category-hinduism","category-history","category-hollywood","category-horror-films","category-hunter-s-thompson","category-literature","category-los-angeles","category-malibu","category-malibu-road","category-matthew-pegas","category-media","category-mid-century-modern","category-montgomery-markland","category-mulholland-drive","category-mythology","category-philip-k-dick","category-philosophy","category-photography","category-political-correctness","category-politics","category-prostitution","category-psychology","category-relationships","category-religion","category-sexuality","category-spirituality","category-surrealism","category-terence-mckenna","category-texas","category-tiki","category-timothy-leary","category-travel","category-twin-peaks","category-vice","category-video-games","category-william-s-burroughs","category-zoomers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13353"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13375,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions\/13375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}