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George Miller

  1. a long talk
    ‘Come Back Tomorrow Night and I’ll Tell You’George Miller on the healing and destructive powers of language and storytelling.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  2. movie review
    One of Our Greatest Fabulists Is Back With Three Thousand Years of LongingGeorge Miller’s modern-day fable, starring Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton, is about the power of stories to seduce and entrap.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  3. the dumping ground
    Hollywood Forgot About the August MovieStudios have been understandably cautious in 2022, but the decision to not extend their great comeback summer is a strategic miscalculation.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  4. cannes 2022
    The Best Movies at Cannes Broke Through the BleaknessThe film festival was full of doomed protagonists, graphic murders, and children driven to crime. But a handful of movies were hopeful, too.
    By Rachel Handler and Nate Jones
  5. cannes 2022
    George Miller Returns to Cannes With a Freaky, Maximalist Fairy TaleThree Thousand Years of Longing is a fairy tale within a fairy tale (about telling fairy tales) that feels like Miller’s answer to The Princess Bride.
    By Rachel Handler
  6. book excerpt
    When Max Met Furiosa: An Oral History of Casting Mad Max: Fury RoadThe yearslong process of finding the right leads for George Miller’s Oscar winner involved dozens of future stars — and just as many what-ifs.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  7. cannes 2022
    Cannes 2022 Is Auteur Central (Even Without David Lynch)With new films by Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, David Cronenberg, and George Miller among the lineup.
    By Justin Curto
  8. shiny and chrome
    Mad Max Prequel Appoints Anya Taylor-Joy as FuriosaToot toot and, yes, beep beep.
    By Rebecca Alter
  9. shiny and chrome
    George Miller Is Making a Furiosa Prequel to Mad Max: Fury RoadRev your engines and call your agents: He’s recasting.
    By Rebecca Alter
  10. friday night movie club
    Mad Max: Fury Road Is a Model Movie for Our Troubled TimesIt’s one of the most compelling postapocalyptic visions ever put on film. But the reason has less to do with calamity, and more with poetry.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  11. movies
    Spring Chickens George Miller and Jack Nicholson Called Cher ‘Too Old’“And you’re not sexy.’”
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  12. cannes
    Here Are the Cannes 2016 Award WinnersThe jury and the critics did not see eye-to-eye.
    By Greg Cwik
  13. cannes 2016
    Mad Max Director George Miller Saw Trump Coming“When you look at the political system it seems very dysfunctional and very sad.”
    By Jada Yuan
  14. George Miller on Mad Max and His Unlikely CareerAt age 70, he accomplished something extremely improbable: He revived a 30-year-old action franchise with a new installment that is the best one yet.
    By Adam Sternbergh
  15. things that are shiny and chrome
    Witness: George Miller Will Preside Over This Year’s Cannes Festival JuryOh, what a fest! What a lovely fest!
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  16. sequels forever
    George Miller Says He Might Direct New Mad Maxes“I’d like to do something smaller, quick — before I go back to the wasteland.”
    By Halle Kiefer and Nate Jones
  17. oscar futures
    DGA Award Nominees Include George Miller, Ridley Scott, and MoreBut what got snubbed, and what does it mean for Oscar?
    By Kyle Buchanan
  18. roll clip!
    Tarantino’s Favorite Movie of 2015 Was Mad MaxHe wanted to hate it, but he just couldn’t.
    By Sean Fitz-Gerald
  19. oscars
    George Miller on Why Mad Max Deserves Oscar NodsListen up, voters.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  20. movies
    George Miller’s Post-Nuclear FamiliesOver and over, in his cinema, families are threatened, destroyed, and fortified, and sometimes wildly different ones are rebuilt out of the ashes of the old.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  21. first look
    6 Crazy, Cool Things We Just Learned About Mad Max: Fury RoadThe amazing-looking action film has finally screened.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  22. the industry
    Charlize Theron Headed to the ThunderdomePlus: Bret Easton Ellis! ‘American Dad’! Reese Witherspoon!
    By Adam K. Raymond
  23. justice
    Justice League Movie Still Alive!Commence countdown to Armie Hammer’s imminent superstardom!
    By Lane Brown
  24. sadness
    Justice League Movie Finally Dead?George Miller, the hapless director linked to the ensemble superhero project for the past year, is officially off the film.
    By Lane Brown
  25. the industry
    Will Ferrell to Honor George W. Bush on BroadwayPlus: Brad Pitt does math!
    By Nick Confalone
  26. apropos of nothing
    The Justice League Movie: Back On, for Some Reason!Despite tax problems and a crappy cast, this thing just refuses to die.
  27. apropos of nothing
    Is the Justice League Movie in Trouble Again?It’s survived endless delays, one strike-related near-cancellation, and the casting of mostly D-listers, all of whom are becoming even less famous by the minute — but has the Justice League movie finally been scrapped?
  28. the industry
    Is Eva Green Wonder Woman?Plus industry news on Sun Kil Moon, Eugene O’Neill, and Tila Tequila.
  29. the industry
    Brad Pitt, Matt Damon InterchangablePlus industry news on Justice League, Katherine Heigl, and Avatar.