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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by randall[/i] [br]We were surprised when they handed us 3-D glasses for tonight�s [url="http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2011/blog/nyff-sneak-october-10-at-7pm"]�Work in Progress�[/url] screening at the New York Film Festival, only the second time in its 49-year history that the Fest has sneaked a movie like this. [For the record, the other one was twenty years ago, for BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.] Out walked Martin Scorsese to introduce his fall picture, [url="http://www.fwfr.com/display.asp?ID=41614"]HUGO[/url]. Mr. Scorsese explained it was indeed unfinished. The sound mix and score by Howard Shore were both temp tracks: Shore is recording the full orchestration in London right now. Some green screens were visible. The first long swooping, panning shot isn�t done yet; we saw a pre-viz. The press was warned: no reviews, this is just for your enjoyment. But I know exactly why NYFF and Scorsese went to all this trouble: (1) it delivers the goods, and (2) there could be no more appropriate venue for this movie than a film festival. It�s based on an illustrated novel for young readers [by Brian Selznick of the moviemaking Selznick family] which I haven�t yet read, and I�m going to assume you haven�t either, so I�ll be careful not to spoil. A boy lives in the walls and the clock tower of a Paris train station in the early Thirties. His late dad, a clockmaker, taught him lots of secrets and the kid is a natural, but he makes do by stealing. Both book and film are love letters to the early days of movies. It�s the best example of live-action 3-D I�ve ever seen, and that includes AVATAR: finally, even softly lit scenes are bright enough to see. Certain setups are just breathtaking in the extra dimension: the light from a movie projector bursting toward us, a closeup on a staring Doberman [it�s just funny!], a security guard intimidating a boy by leaning closer, closer� The film is stuffed with British character actors, none of whom attempts a French accent: Jude Law, Richard Griffiths, Ben Kingsley, Christopher Lee, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, on and on. This one is for the whole family and will probably get a PG rating, maybe even -13* [there are a couple of intense scenes, and you can never predict what the MPAA will think]. Mr. Scorsese is justifiably proud, and I�m so glad I got to see it with enough film fans to fill up Avery Fisher Hall. [size=1]*Though that would be a real shame. Any thoughtful kid will love it, trust me.[/size=1] EDIT: It got the PG. One of the reasons is *smoking*. [/quote]    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature.