Hugo (2011)

Absolutely brilliant

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I have tried to watch this film three or four times and I can only last 15-20 minutes at best before wanting to pick up the phone and call Martin Scorcese. It is certainly a visually stunning movie, but not much else. The story line is pathetic and the choice of actors (esp. Sacha Cohen) destroys any interest I might hope to give it. The reason I dislike it so much has perhaps something to do with my vision of art. Art serves no purpose other than to distract from reality, hence it's not worth participating in. However, I can see how an art lover might appreciate Hugo - we would just never get along.

There are few films that have been created that make as much impact on you as the book. Before seeing the film I read and loved the stunning and unique book with art that captivated my imagination. when I went to see the film I was sceptical, my expectations where not super high because the film could not possibly be better than the film, it hardly ever is but this time it was different. the film was not better than the book but for me it almost matched it. Martin Scorsese did a fantastic job of directing this film. the music, the setting and the feel of this movie helped you get utterly lost in this clockwork movie. I have deliberately not said anything about the story because you need to experience it yourself, go and see it now.

Film Review: "Hugo" (2011)Honored with Eleven Academy Award Nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director in regard to Martin Scorsese, who reinvented himself with this film by giving in to deeper emotion and empathy without being sentimental as the one Director of his generation as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and further Oliver Stone and David Lynch, who divided the emerging so called "New Hollywood" under themselves until it became clear at the beginning of this decade that cinema turns entirely digital by 2020.Director Martin Scorsese proves with "Hugo" that the magic shall be alive even in a realm of full digitization as this picture, even additionally supported by a Fusion 3D camera system under supervision of Academy-Award-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson, who stabilizes the director's vision translated from screenplay writing by John Logan, which misses no beats for motion picture entertainment on the highest level, where every shot had been carefully considered to be part of a 2-hour editorial by Thelma Schoonmaker that leaves no wishes open for audience members of any age."Hugo" surprisingly made its way through the years to be a pitch perfect example of how to use technology in times of confusions to make it a part of a creative process to come further out the restraint looks of lock-up-tables that no one seems to care anymore how color transcends in the viewer's eye to be the primary indicator of a visual perception. Here comes it all together, the highest budget given to Director Martin Scorsese managed by Producer Graham King and further passionate film supporters as actor Johnny Depp himself, sharing-in with an investment from selfly-owned production company Infinitum Nihil earned from the most expensive picture of them all "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" (2011) in order to create the ultimate picture on the process of desperation in making films.Then later at the Oscars on February 26th 2012, it became clear from whispers through the ranks that again no other Director worked harder by digesting the given source material as the book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick, to receive a ringing in one's auditorium guest's ear, when the time came to hand-over the Best Director Award for an still retrospectively speaking, the most engaging year of a decade at the movies.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

1930s Paris: A movie so engaging that revolves around the magical premise of connecting with a loved one who has died, but imparted part of their soul in a lifeless, mechanical puppet. The characters feel like they have been living on the canvas of a Antoine Blanchard (Marcel Masson) painting. Rich scenery that immerses us in a world of 30s Paris replete with coal, the cosmopolitan hub of a train station, the wonder and mystery of silent movie-making (yes movie making), and the untold story of people we take for granted everyday in our daily lives. This is as close to a perfect movie as it comes. This movie actually reminds me of the movie Dunkirk. The lost craft of movie-making and the simplicity of motion pictures is revelled making the story more capable of connecting with its characters without fantastical CGI or the aid of gratuitous violence.This is also incomparably Scorsese's best movie.