|
Author
|
Topic: "Hugo"
|
Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
|
posted November 29, 2011 02:07 PM
I went to see "Hugo" last weekend. It started out being one of those movies I take in because my son wanted to see it. Sometimes this results in me sneaking looks at my watch and counting down the minutes until I can leave, but this time was different.
Even though it took a long time to reveal the fact, "Hugo" turned out to be one of my favorite kinds of movies: a film about film. (When I find a film about films about film, you may consider my life complete!).
An important character (go find out for yourself who...) turns out to be an important pioneer of silent cinema whose career ended sadly and he's still hurting over it. Years later he won't even go see a film.
Along the way we see this wonderful review of his earlier life and work, with a lot of clips from films we all recognize, and maybe even have. This was enough to get my film collector's endorphins flowing.
I've read that a major motivation for making this movie was Martin Scorcese's love of old films and his desire to see them preserved. Shame there is it's so digitally made that all of the film in this "film" is in the old projectors the characters use.
The setting is wonderful (if you think like I do...) It’s a Paris train station in the 1930s, and everything is steam and gears and other machinery. The filmmaking equipment comes along later: icing on the cake!
In a lot of respects this is a strange movie: most of the characters have secrets and the journey towards understanding them feels a little odd here and there. The trip is worth it, so I rate it the best strange movie I have ever seen!
(I WILL get this DVD!)
--------------------
All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
I remember the young kid from "A Boy In Striped Pyjamas", Emily Mortimer from Dear Frankie a few years back. Christopher Lee, Jude Law, and Ben Kingsley. The 3D was excellent its a must see movie. I hope it comes out in "2D" in DVD/Blu-ray later, a real tribute to early film making and some really nice shots from the silent era.
Printer-friendly view of this topic
