Highlights
- Veteran director Martin Scorsese won a standing ovation at the New York Film Festival as he presented an incomplete version of his new movie Hugo.
- The 68-year-old decided to go ahead with a screening of the film, starring Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jude Law, at the event, even though the production is not quite finished, said the Hollywood Reporter.
Veteran director Martin Scorsese won a standing ovation at the New York Film Festivalas he presented an incomplete version of his new movie
Hugo.
The 68-year-old decided to go ahead with a screening of the film, starring Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen and Jude Law, at the event, even though the production is not quitefinished, said the Hollywood Reporter.
The move marks the first time an incomplete film has been shown at the festival since Walt Disney's 1991 movie Beauty and the Beast'.
"There are still what are called pre-visualisations.Computer-generated people that they promise are going to behuman - pretty soon, I hope. And you will see a few wonderfulgreen screen moments where you can put in anything you want,"Scorsese said.
Festival selection committee chairman Richard Pena said, "There's only one other time, back in 1991, that we've screened a work-in-progress as part of the festival, and that was
Beauty and the Beast. We're just as proud this evening to have this film."
The movie, based on Brian Selznick's novel, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, opens in the US next month.