Dec 11th
Hugo** (U)
Hackney Picture House
An orphaned boy who lives inside Paris Gare du Nord tries to reconcile an aging toymaker who turns out to be legendary filmmaker Georges Melies.
Touching, refreshingly mature family film (a little long at 2 hours) set in a stylized 1930s Paris with the occasional jarring British accent (Scorsese's tribute to Michael Powell), but making some good use of 3D and also allowing Scorsese to indulge in his love of the moving image.
d: Martin Scorsese
s: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths
Preceded by:
2:20**
(GB 2011. 2m.; d: Jason Winyard.)
+ winner, Virgin Shorts 2011
Hugo** (U)
Hackney Picture House
An orphaned boy who lives inside Paris Gare du Nord tries to reconcile an aging toymaker who turns out to be legendary filmmaker Georges Melies.
Touching, refreshingly mature family film (a little long at 2 hours) set in a stylized 1930s Paris with the occasional jarring British accent (Scorsese's tribute to Michael Powell), but making some good use of 3D and also allowing Scorsese to indulge in his love of the moving image.
d: Martin Scorsese
s: Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Christopher Lee, Helen McCrory, Michael Stuhlbarg, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths
Preceded by:
2:20**
(GB 2011. 2m.; d: Jason Winyard.)
+ winner, Virgin Shorts 2011
posted by Joe at 11:10 PM
2 Comments:
I see The film has been nominated for eleven oscars - any thoughts/opinions on that?
Generous, though only half of those nomitations were converted into awards, most of them technical.
Hollywood generally admires Scorsese rather than loves him - the same goes for Spielberg, Lucas, Coppola, etc.
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