Hugo
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray
Hugo is Scorsese's unexpected, innovative treat; a heartfelt celebration of cinema with comprehensive, high-quality collectibles.
The 4K UHD presentation offers deep and enhanced visuals with more depth and dimension for a more immersive, emotional, and dazzling experience, despite some artificiality and softer, bluish-tinted black levels.
The meticulous design of the track is evident from the intricate gear cog sounds, the rhythmic interweaving of mechanical gears across speakers, and Hugo's masterful virtual camera movements capturing a bustling station scene.
Big Effects, Small Scale and NEW Capturing Dreams are celebrated visual works, including archival effects and a deep view into Méliès' evolution and impact on 3D, backed by Oscar winner, Robert Richardson.
Despite its initial controversial shock, 'Hugo' exemplifies Scorsese's passion for cinema, earning vast accolades, and encapsulating the director's essence masterfully.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee
Plot: In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Disc Release Date: 18 July 2023
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The 4K UHD presentation is often very gorgeous, though the increased resolution probably only helps to make some of the presentational aspects even more artificial, which perhaps in a subliminal sense...
and then the gear cog noises wafting around the listener, and that same attention to detail pervades this really intricately designed track....
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Big Effects, Small Scale (HD; 5:54) is an archival piece looking at some of the visual effects....
As downright shocking and maybe even heretical as it may sound, and with an admission that both articles and actual awards with the very word I'm about to use have been written about and/or bestowed upon...
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As is discussed in some of the supplements on this disc, and as even I mention above, Hugo was in many ways an "unexpected" offering from Martin Scorsese, and that perhaps makes it even more of a treat....
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Black levels follow the visual design with a softer approach, often veering just shy of true black, and instead taking on the blue-ish tint that surrounds them....
Hugo moves into a master shot of the station, busy travelers panning to the sides and flawlessly behind as the virtual camera pushes forward....
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Jon Spira is back for his visual essay on Milies before Arrow includes the five featurettes found on the previous Blu-ray....
Hugo flawlessly captures that nuance, and that results in a masterpiece for any other filmmaker....
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A beautiful, romanticized appreciation of cinema’s earliest days, Hugo celebrates the icons and moments that made film so remarkable....
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It's a completely different, more immersive, more emotional, and much more dazzling experience in that format, and because of the enhanced depth and dimension 3D provides, the 3D image - at least to my...
From the opening frames, featuring the rhythmic interlocking of mechanical gears spread across all the room's speakers, it's evident we're in for an aural treat, and the track never backs down over the...
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NEW "Capturing Dreams" (HD, 40 minutes) - Director of photography Robert Richardson, who won an Oscar for Hugo, covers such topics as his admiration for Méliès, the evolution of 3D and how it enhances...
And no other film encapsulates the essence of Scorsese - who he is and what he does - better than Hugo, which ties together the director's passion for motion pictures (spawned from a lonely, challenging...
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Scorsese's innovative and affecting masterwork is a must-view in any format and Arrow's limited edition release gives us every video option as well as hours of new, high-quality supplements and collectible...