Hugo de martin scorsese biography
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&#;Hugo&#; is full of images that recall the early history of the movies.
The recent holiday season offered three highly touted movies about boys caught up in exciting adventures: &#;Hugo,&#; &#;War Horse&#; and &#;The Adventures of Tintin.&#; Martin Scorsese&#;s &#;Hugo&#; was also one of several &#;reflexive&#; films—movies about the movies. Other reflexive films included &#;The Artist&#; (about a silent screen actor at the onset of &#;talkies&#;) and &#;My Week with Marilyn&#; (about Marilyn Monroe during the filming in England of &#;The Prince and the Showgirl&#;).
Each of these films is built from an excellent script, and each has a strong, distinct style. Of them, only &#;My Week with Marilyn&#; could be regarded as rather traditional, unembellished film-making. &#;The Artist&#; returns to the glittering black-and-white palette of the silver screen era and unfolds almost entirely without spoken dialogue. &#;War Horse&#; and &#;Hugo&#; are gloriously colorful perio
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With Oscar Night exactly four weeks away . . . we're GOING HOLLYWOOD for these next few Sundays. We begin this morning with director Martin Scorsese, nominated for "Hugo," a picture unlike any he's done before. How his movie came to be is the story he tells Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes":
Welcome to Hollywood East: Martin Scorsese's Manhattan office, where he edits his films, and screens old favorites. It's decorated with posters of works by such directors as Jacques Tourneur.
It's a wall-to-wall shrine to the greats of the past
"Yeah, I think for me it's, like, just trying to stay in touch with that initial creative impulse and say, 'Oh I want to do that. I want to do something like that,' the inspiration."
One inspiration, and the subject of "Hugo," is the pioneering film-maker George Melies.
"Melies actually was a magician," said Scorsese. "And so he understood the possibilities of the motion picture camera."
"Hugo," "The Artist" lead this year's Oscar race
"Hugo" is
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Faith & Film: Hugo
I was intrigued to hear that acclaimed director Martin Scorsese, known for his violent movies including “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” and “Goodfellas” had made a children’s movie. No one disputes that Scorsese is a great director, but this seems quite a departure for him. So I had to check out “Hugo.” I’m very glad I did.
Based on the book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick, the film tells the story of an orphan who lives in Paris’ train station in the s. Hugo was taught by his father and grandfather to keep all the clocks running on time in the enormous station. He is frequently seen by those who work at the train station, including the station agent (Sasha Baron Cohen), who keeps chasing Hugo, assuming that he is just a vagrant. No one knows of Hugo’s responsibilities.
Isabelle, whose grandfather (Ben Kingsley) runs a toy booth at the station, befriends the lonely Hugo. Eventually Hugo brings Isabelle to his hidden world inside the station