Screen Magic
‘HUGO’ & ‘MY WEEK WITH MARILYN’
Richard Alleva December 27, 2011 - 9:57am
To call a successful film director a movie magician is usually just hyperbolic cliché, but Georges Méliès (1861–1938) was literally a magician of the cinema. This Frenchman with an egg-shaped head and the balding, bearded face of a Mephistopheles (a role he sometimes played in his own productions) abandoned the family trade of boot-...
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