Georges Méliès
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Anyone who marveled at Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning Hugo, which partly told the story of Georges Méliès, got to see recreations of — and snatches from — the silent-film pioneer's most famous work, A Trip to the Moon.
Between the restoration debut at Cannes 2011 and the American Blu-ray/DVD release this week, Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” was released, a love letter to the fantastical visions of George Méliès and the magic of silent cinema.
Scorsese clearly relished recreating scenes depicting the making of Melies' 14-minute 1902 landmark fantasy "A Trip to the Moon."
It's wonderful to think how young viewers of this film will react to footage from the amazing 1902 "A Trip to the Moon," an iconic French featurette in which a rocket ship hits the Man in the Moon squarely in the eye.
A first-time cinematic collaboration between the extravagantly imaginative writer Neil Gaiman and the artist-director David McKean (both are intensely revered in the comic-book subculture for their work on the esteemed "Sandman" series, among many other things), the movie has a flickery, handmade quality that recalls such primordial entertainments as George Méliès' 1902 "A Trip to the Moon," and an unrelenting otherworldliness that's indebted to more modern films, like the late Jim Henson's 1986 "Labyrinth." ("MirrorMask" was in fact produced by the puppet masters of the Jim Henson Company.)
Space has been the setting for some of the most rousing films ever made, starting with Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon from 1902 and leading all the way up to Claire Denis’s recently debuted, bodily-fluid-obsessed galactic opera High Life .
Throughout the history of science fiction movies, starting with Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon (1902), there have generally been two varieties of storylines involving humankind coming into contact with aliens.
One could argue that its an ancient plot that long predates Alien, going as far back as Georges Melies’ A Trip To the Moon (1902), which saw a crew travel into space and then fight aliens.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
influenced by A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Visuals
In many ways, in fact, the film is almost as nonverbal as the newly restored version of Georges Melies' 1902 A Trip to the Moon, shown earlier at the Festival de Cannes.
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Directed by Daniel Myrick
influenced by A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Visuals
Their fright no doubt passed with the film's second screening, and certainly with the popularity of Georges Méliès's pioneering special-effects fantasy A Trip to the Moon a few years later.
Space travel has been a favorite subject of filmmakers since France's Georges Melies took audiences on "A Trip to the Moon" in 1902.
As Gunning says in relation to Méliès’s 1902 classic A Trip to the Moon, ‘The story simply provides a frame upon which to string a demonstration of the magical possibilities of the cinema.’
While cinematic spaceships have been leaving our planet for distant destinations at least since Georges Méliès' 1902 "A Trip to the Moon," the unfolding narrative of Europa One (named for the moon of Jupiter it's headed for) captures the excitement of space travel in a way that's not business as usual.
The same goes for his servants, whose features have been minimized supposedly in the name of realism, but in a way that they all end up resembling the plastered visages in Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon .
Like visionary film-maker Douglas Trumbull (who conjured 2001 ’s most memorable effects), Nolan’s primary register is light, and one can legitimately trace his love of celluloid back to the earliest experiments of Georges Méliès, who first used movies to send us on A Trip to the Moon in 1902.
After the failed attempt on his life, Riddick struggles to survive on an unfamiliar, barely habitable planet filled with wild alien dogs, impressively terrifying amphibious scorpion-like monsters and equally unimpressive-looking pterodactyl-like vultures, all on a desert CGI landscape that's a cross between Georges Méliès' 1902 silent classic "A Trip to the Moon" and the 1980 cheese fest "Flash Gordon."
Jump cuts have been around as long as film – being used as a special effect as early as George Melies’ A Trip To The Moon in 1902 – but never before had it been used to cut through time within dialogue scenes.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Directed by Luc Besson
influenced by A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Themes
Science fiction in film goes all the way back to Georges Méliès’ 1902 film, A Trip to the Moon, and since the very beginning, the best ones showed us a world wholly new and exciting, something the likes of which we’ve never seen before.