Events

Friday 9 March, the Friends of Kings Park and Ford Focus Moonlight Cinema are holding a fundraising movie night in Kings Park showing the new movie Hugo.

Hugo has been rated very highly and great for all ages. Below is an extract of the review from ABC Televisions' At the Movies with Margaret & David.

For price and location information, please click on www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/moonlight-cinema The gate opens at 6.30pm and the movie begins at 8pm, showing at the Synergy Parkland on May Drive. All funds raised will go towards projects in Kings Park and Botanic Gardens.  

Hugo

Review by Margaret Pomeranz

Martin Scorsese must have embraced with an absolute passion the story of HUGO, Asa Butterfield, an orphan who lives secretly in the labyrinthine structures of a Paris railway station, winding up the clocks after the disappearance of his uncle. He has one precious possession left to him by his father, an automaton which he is patiently trying to repair with stolen parts. This gets him into trouble with one of the station's storekeepers, Ben Kingsley. The secret of the automaton leads to a connection with the great pioneer French filmmaker Georges Melies and it's a treat that we get to see some of his films.... Scorsese's love of cinema shines through this film enticing us into this wonderful fantastical celebration of the art.

Further comments

DAVID: Chloe Grace Moretz is the girl. Look, as you know Margaret, I love silent cinema and I love the history of cinema and the origins of cinema so this film was an absolute delight for me because dealing, as it does, in a very accurate way, actually, with the story of Georges Méliès, I was just entranced and Scorsese’s love of cinema and his determination to restore cinema too, shines through in this film. So the story itself of the boy, the orphan boy sort of abandoned in the station, all the sort of comic bits and pieces involving Sacha Baron Cohen and all the other characters in the Gaumont Parnasse, it’s all beautifully done but it is so stunningly photographed and designed.

MARGARET: I know.

DAVID: That opening shot is one of the great shots in the history of cinema, I think. It’s just an amazing opening....

MARGARET: I love this film. I’m giving it four and a half stars.

DAVID: I love it to death. I’m giving it five.

MARGARET: Wow!