MURIEL AWARD WINNER BEST FEATURE FILM 2015: MAD MAX FURY ROAD

And the winner of the Muriel Award for Best Feature Film of 2015 is...

Andrew Bemis on Mad Max: Fury Road:

"Fury Road also makes most other blockbusters look puny on a purely aesthetic level. In a movie filled with exhilarating images, one of my favorites is towards the beginning, when Max is trying to escape his captors. It's a dark, chaotic sequence that suddenly gives way to blinding light and silence as we get our first look at Immortal Joe's Citadel. It's a moment that has the same kind of power as Dorothy opening her front door and stepping into Oz. Mad Max has many moments like this, reminding that, though blockbusters offer plenty of loud spectacle, few even bother with trying to manipulate scale, perspective, light, sound or any of the other basic tools at their disposal to create a genuine sense of awe. For a movie that uses every state-of-the-art filmmaking tool at its disposal, Fury Road is surprisingly classical in its approach to visual storytelling."

Read the entirety of Andrew Bemis's  conversation with Justine Smith about Mad Max: Fury Road at the official Muriels Web site, Our Science is Too Tight.

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