This week on Film Weekly: Sir Ben Kingsley talks about playing Georges Méliès in Martin Scorsese's Hugo. Méliès saw the potential for fun in the Lumiere brothers' invention, bringing pioneering techniques like time-lapse and dissolves to the screen. Sir Ben tells Jason Solomons why retelling the story of this "Cinemagician" was a magical experience.
Xan Brooks joins Jason to review some of this week's other big releases including an unusual take on the road movie in Las Acacias, Nanni Moretti's Vatican-baiting We Have a Pope, Anna Paquin's time off from more bloody vampires in Margaret and the bird-bothering trio of Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin in The Big Year.
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