Hugo (2011 Martin Scorsese)

Marty's love letter to cinema is also his most enjoyable film of late, a recreation of Brian Selznick's illustrated children's book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" which supplies many of the key visual ideas (eye in clock, station, toy shop, automaton):

Asa Butterfield (Son of Rambow), Chloe Grace Moretz (great as usual), Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Lee, Emily Mortimer, Helen McCrory, Ray Winstone, Jude Law, Frances de la Tour, Richard Griffiths, Kevin Eldon.

A great technical achievement, it is gorgeously photographed by Robert Richardson and designed by Dante Ferreti: they both won their third Oscars (Dante's were for The Aviator and Sweeney Todd) as did the sound design and mixing and special effects, which offer us a slightly artificial but cute CGI Paris, and it is of course superbly edited, by Thelma Schoonmaker. Music is by Howard Shore.

Loved the still-terrifying clip from Safety Last and the compilations of silent classics and Méliès' own highlights.

Why I'm such a sucker for dragons I have no idea.