Howard Shore on scoring Martin Scorsese films | TIFF 2019

Legendary composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings) stops by TIFF's Studio 9 to discuss his many collaborations with the equally legendary Martin Scorsese.

Scorsese's ambitious adaptation of Brian Selznick's award-winning bestseller The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a thrilling adventure, a delightful family comedy, and an exquisitely crafted ode to the birth of cinema. Left an orphan after the death of his clockmaker father (Jude Law), young Hugo (Asa Butterfield) now lives within the walls of Paris' Gare Montparnasse, where he keeps one step ahead of the remorselessly vigilant Station Inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) while secretly attending to the station's clocks. On a quest to unlock a secret left him by his father, Hugo crosses paths with bitter toy-shop owner Papa Georges (Ben Kingsley) — once the acclaimed illusionist and pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès — and his granddaughter Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz), and sets them on a path that will change all their lives. "In its fetching use of 3D and CGI imagery, [Hugo] looks fearlessly forward even as it instructs about cinema's origins…. a film that is a proclamation as much as it is a movie, a cause as much as an entertainment: this is cinema, it says, don't let it die" (Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot).

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