Good, interesting movie

Rating: 10/10 (25 March 2012)

Atmosphere in trailer reminded me of Harry Potter-Hogwarts movies because of the train. That's one reason I wanted to see this movie. Johnny Depp's company making this movie made sense when I consider all the fantasy roles played by Depp. Scorsese excellent, teaching us more about the early silent movies. I thought the era was 1920s, judging by some of the clothes in this movie, but later I read that it was 1931. World War One also apparently killed Broadway, not just movies. After that period - WWI, IMO, lots of stage actors went Hollywood, including the Barrymores - John, Ethel and Lionel. There was more money to be made in Hollywood than on the NY boards.
This movie supposed to be in Paris I thought, but lots of actors had British accents. This is not good, but as the movie wore on I forgot all about that.
Loved all the dogs in this movie. Were the small brown dogs supposed to be male and female? If so, I expected them to start co-mingling and making a litter of little brown puppies any second now.
Reading about Melies' life, Jeanne was his second wife and not in his early movies as depicted in this movie. Still, the actress here did a splendid job.
I feel that Tabard was really Scorsese, being a movie historian and doing everything he could to preserve early cinema.
10/10