One similar project that touches on the history of movies that audiences seem to have forgotten about, or simply isn’t talked about enough, is Martin Scorsese’s Hugo.īased on Brian Selznick’s book “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” Hugo takes us back to 1930s Paris as we follow an orphan boy living inside the walls of a train station where he spends his time looking at the outside world from within. Just last year we had Steven Spielgberg’s semi-autobiography in The Fabelmans, then there was Damien Chazelle with Babylon, which was about how the movie industry changed going from silent films to talkies. Not too long ago we Quentin Tarantino made his 1960s Hollywood Golden Age love letter with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It seems like many filmmakers have been feeling nostalgic for old Hollywood lately. Hugo gives Martin Scorsese a break from his usual dark dramas and in return turns in a family friendly movie about outcasts and rediscovering old relics.
