Mad Max Is Back Plus The Rest Of Our New Reviews And Notable Screenings

• Thom Andersen
• The Thoughts That Once We Had

With Mad Max: Fury Road, writer-director George Miller returns to the futuristic story that put him on the map, reimagining in greater detail the dystopian Australia of his original action cycle from the 70s and 80s (Mad Max, The Road Warrior, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome). Ben Sachs looks at the summer blockbuster in this week’s long review, and in a shorter piece I consider The Thoughts That Once We Had, the latest from the masterful film essayist Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself).