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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Elevator to the Gallows (1958), a classic French film noir about a businessman who kills his boss after beginning an affair with his wife. But then his plans to cover up his actions go awry, he has to commit more crimes, and the cops start closing in. Will he get away with it? We’ll have tto watch to find out. This is considered one of the best French films of the 1950s, and one of the best works of director Louis Malle, whose movies My Dinner with Andre (1981) and Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) we previously watched. Let’s give it a whirl.

After that is the fifth Mad Max entry, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), George Miller’s highly-anticipated follow-up to his Australian outback action film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). This one is a prequel that tells the origin story of Furiosa (played by Charlize Theron in Fury Road, but Anya Taylor-Joy in this one), following her quest to escape the clutches of arch-misogynist Immortan Joe and kick some butt along the way. Chicks rock.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Elevator to the Gallows: https://letterboxd.com/film/elevator-to-the-gallows/
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: https://letterboxd.com/film/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Elevator to the Gallows: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/19579
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/744713

CWs for Elevator to the Gallows:

• Drug use.
• Drunkenness.
• Alcohol.
• Unconsciousness.
• Drug overdose.
• Cheating.
• Suicide attempt.
• Claustrophobia.
• Flashing lights.
• Gun violence.
• Honking horns.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga:

• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Child abandonment.
• Stalking.
• Woman brutalized for spectacle.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Child abuse.
• Death of horse.
• Decapitation.
• Animal abuse.
• Dead animals.
• Bugs.
• A woman is slapped.
• Implied pedophilia. Not depicted.
• Implied sexual assault. Not depicted.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Shaving.
• Hand damage.
• Dismemberment.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Cannibalism.
• Deaths by crushing.
• Choking.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Someone is buried alive.
• Body horror.
• Amputation.
• Squashed head.
• Hanging.
• Asphyxiation.
• Unconsciousness.
• Broken bones.
• Seizures.
• Finger mutilation.
• Torture.
• Deaths by falling.
• Eye mutilation.
• Stabbing.
• Corpses.
• Blood and gore.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Suicide.
• Disabled character portrayed by able-bodied person.
• Kidnapping.
• Death of parent.
• Destruction of child’s toy.
• Jump scares.
• Razors.
• Mannequins.
• Audio gore.
• Prison scenes.
• PTSD.
• Self-harm.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Meltdowns.
• Claustrophobia.
• Crying baby.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Flashing lights.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Stillbirth.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Chronic illness.
• Homelessness.
• Fat suit.
• Car crash.
• Honking horns.
• Someone is hit by a car.
• Gun violence.
• End-credits scene.

Links to movies:

• Elevator to the Gallows: https://tankie.tube/w/bVSZ1m8Tc89qepSE3ZvNZh
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga: https://tankie.tube/w/3qzPKR9f4WhuFdCCNKDgMZ