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This "documentary" is an eerie, wordless and scoreless vision of post-human abandonment. Without explanations and with a static camera, it visits deserted locations around the world years after the people had given up on them. Derelict concert halls, prison cells, bank vaults, cathedrals and train cabins, from Fukushima, and Chernobyl, and the many other disaster areas people have left behind, surrounding them to the elements, letting the birds and the rain and the weeds take over again. It’s hypnotic and transcendental. The trailer. [more inside]
posted by growabrain on Mar 8, 2025 - 1 comment

The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before her encounter and teamup with Mad Max, from the director of "Babe: Pig in the City". Previous discussions about the film trailer, disability representation, and film editing.
posted by autopilot on May 22, 2024 - 39 comments

The gang is recast in a Mad Max setting.
posted by porpoise on Jan 18, 2023 - 9 comments

A former Australian policeman is rescued by a tribe of children when he is banished from a desert town and sent into the desert to die by the desert town's evil queen. [more inside]
posted by KathrynT on Jun 6, 2015 - 12 comments

In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits. (This is the second film for the Mad Max/George Miller Film Club here in FanFare. NOTE: There will be spoilers in this thread for ALL the Mad Max movies, including Fury Road.) [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on May 31, 2015 - 36 comments

A vengeful Australian policeman sets out to avenge his partner, his wife and his son. (This is the first film for the Mad Max/George Miller Film Club here in FanFare.) [more inside]
posted by ocherdraco on May 24, 2015 - 20 comments

Glen Weldon and Chris Klimek discuss Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller's cinematic return to a post-apocalyptic wasteland that boasts a weirdly thriving car culture.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on May 23, 2015 - 0 comments

Any interest in posts on the first three Mad Max films in the wake of Fury Road? Or, more broadly, all the varied films of George Miller?
posted by ocherdraco on May 19, 2015 - 16 comments

In a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, two rebels just might be able to restore order: Max, a man of action and of few words, and Furiosa, a woman of action who is looking to make it back to her childhood homeland. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on May 11, 2015 - 519 comments