MIT Lecture Series Committee

Rated PG
126 minutes

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format: 35mm

Hugo (2011)

2011 Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Art Direction (WIN!), Best Cinematography (WIN!), Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score (Howard Shore), Best Sound Editing (WIN!), Best Sound Mixing (WIN!), Best Visual Effects (WIN!), Best Adapted Screenplay

Throughout his extraordinary career, Academy Award-wining director Martin Scorsese has brought his unique vision and dazzling gifts to life in a series of unforgettable films. Now the legendary storyteller invites you to join him on a thrilling journey to a magical world based on Brian Selznick's award-winning, imaginative New York Times best-seller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Hugo is the astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo and all those around him, and reveal a safe and loving place he can call home. Starring Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, and Chloë Grace Moretz. [www.rottentomatoes.com]

Although it brings Scorsese together with people and techniques he hasn't worked with before, it also touches on themes close to his heart: the birth of cinema, and its preservation.
      -- John Anderson, Newsday. Read this review.