“I wanted to make a movie that my youngest daughter Francesca, who’s 12, could see with her friends,” says legendary director Martin Scorsese about “Hugo,” his new children’s adventure.  “Hugo” tells the astonishing story of a  bright and resourceful orphan (Asa Butterfield) whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father (played […]

There were two catalysts. The first was playing Coriolanus in a stage production in 2000, and believing that this play of Shakespeare’s could become a contemporary, urgent political thriller, with a Greek tragedy at its center, involving the mother and the son. And there’s something in the spirit of Coriolanus, in the essence of his character, which spoke to me very strongly and wouldn’t leave me.

When director Stephen Daldry, a three-time Oscar-nominee for “The Reader,” “The Hours” and “Billy Elliot,” read the book, he was struck most of all by Oskar’s subjective point of view.  An unusual child with arrestingly high intelligence yet eccentric and obsessive behaviors that might put him on the autistic spectrum, Oskar describes the world around him with his own particular mix of naiveté and insight, nervousness and boldness, incomprehension and a need to understand.

“The cast didn’t know who was behind the film, or the size of it; I kept my name off the scripts. I just wanted to know if they were responding to the material.”–Director Angelina Jolie

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