Reel to Real: A Love Story Starring Industrial Light and Magic
"Death and resurrection feature prominently in both 'Hugo' and
'The Artist' "  Date February 21, 2012 at 2:37 PM  Author Diane
Armitage  Publication THE magazine  Categories Entertainment &
Nightlife   At the Golden Globe awards ceremony in January,
Martin Scorsese won the Best Director award for his film "Hugo,"
a mythic and melancholy fable. "The Artist," directed by Michel
Hazanavicius, is a dazzling and delicious paean to the golden
age of silent movies, and it won the award for Best Comedy, for
Best Score (Ludovic Bource), and for Best Actor (Jean Dujardin).
But as I write this, the awards and nominations don’t stop there
for this unusual pair of movies that have at their heart a
backward motion toward the roots of early cinema.  "Hugo" is an
unabashed love poem to the origins of moving pictures in general
and to one of its pioneers in particular, Georges Méliès, best
known for his 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon"—a work that winds
up being at