Interview: Sir Ben Kingsley on male vulnerability and the limitless vision of Georges Méliès

Posted by · 12:12 pm · December 21st, 2011

“Hugo” star Ben Kingsley first got his taste of collaboration with filmmaker Martin Scorsese in 2010 on the thriller “Shutter Island.” It was a long time coming, but for Kingsley, who says he always appreciated Scorsese’s work as a filmmaker, it was a unique characteristic of the director’s process that really spoke to the actor…

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Martin Scorsese embraces 3D beyond the realm of 'Hugo' and fantasy

Posted by · 10:26 pm · November 28th, 2011

Martin Scorsese once again paves the way for the future even as he honors the past with “Hugo” and his embrace of 3D technology.

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Technicolor and Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo' restore the magic of Méliès

Posted by · 9:23 am · November 23rd, 2011

As Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” makes its way to theaters, and as Technicolor continues to march out its handsome, expensive, painstaking restoration of Georges Méliès’s “A Trip to the Moon,” the cinema of past and present converge at a key moment: the 100th anniversary of filmmaking in Hollywood.

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