Mad Max: Fury Road

Friday, October 18 - Saturday, October 19, 2019

Staff Pick! Chosen by Tashika who says: “The Mad Max franchise has been at the top of my childhood favorites, and a cult classic for obvious reason. How could you not love a movie with a bad ass, female protagonist with a bald head and prosthetic arm? I couldn’t pass up the chance to see it on the screen.”

“It’s hard to do justice in words to Fury Road‘s nonstop, breathtaking action sequences. Miller and team are on record as saying the stunts, for the most part, are real. But there’s still an otherworldliness to these setpieces — colorful flares pop across the skies, the weaponry is ludicrous (one guy’s got a flamethrowing guitar), the explosions are so bright as to seem downright cartoonish. This is not the dusty, grotty world of The Road Warrior, where we could almost taste the dirt. Here, we watch the movie in a weird state of vicarious pain, delirium and ecstasy; it actually takes something out of us. Fury Road may be a sequel, a reboot or whatever, but it’s so perverse, florid, mannered and dense that it feels like a wild-eyed castaway in the wasteland of Hollywood blockbusters. It’s a work of almost religious horror and beauty — the Sistine Chapel of action filmmaking.” – Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice

Screening as part of our Summer 2019 series, “Waverly Midnights: Staff Picks.”

Country USA
Rating R
Year 2015
Running Time 120 minutes
Director George Miller
Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil, Closed Captioning, Descriptive Audio

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