Word: luhrmann
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...hard for actors to get people to pin their romantic dreams on them. And there have been so many romantic duds, it's a risk they will take only for a great script. Kidman and Jackman were lured into Australia because it's co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann, who's reputedly one of Fox honcho Rupert Murdoch's favorite filmmakers. Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett were persuaded to do The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by its story of a man who ages backward and the woman he loves...
Chanel's U.S. president, Maureen Chiquet, admits that banking on a celebrity for celebrity's sake can be a risky venture. Although the brand has had contractual relationships with stars since the '50s (Suzy Parker, Catherine Deneuve, Ali McGraw, Candice Bergen and Carole Bouquet), its Nicole Kidman--Baz Luhrmann No. 5 ad surpasses any single-ad commitment to date. Kidman's reported $4 million-to-$5 million contract was meager compared with the total budget, which some estimates put at more than $40 million...
...bard goes ballistic in Baz Luhrmann's churning, MTV-ish take on the classic love-and-death story. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, respectively 21 and 16 when they filmed it in 1996, bring youth's melancholy fever to the fable. Luhrmann might be chided for pandering to the youth market, but forget that. His fireworks and camerabatics are an apt and bracing visual equivalent to Shakespeare's swooning iambic pentameter...
...direction. As a result, the film plays like a series of music videos casually strung together by stuporous expository scenes. “Rent” unfortunately adds up to less than the sum of its parts, failing to fulfill its real potential. Spike Lee, Sam Mendes, and Baz Luhrmann were all rumored to be attached to the project at various times —one cannot help but wonder how these auteurs might have better delivered on the show’s promise.If Columbus’ film is your first exposure to the musical, you?...
...arrogance can be forgiven. Reared in the rarefied domain of theater and opera (he assisted Neil Armfield's acclaimed production of Hamlet, and Baz Luhrmann's staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream), Mclean here applies the finesse of fine art to the pulpiest of fiction. Wolf Creek is impeccably structured (apart from one or two creaky plot points later in the piece), and the director extracts pitch-perfect performances from his young leads, with a marvelously malicious turn from Jarratt, whose Mick Taylor is Grand Guignol with an Akubra hat. As for the charge of exploitation - well, directors have...