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...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...
KIDMAN: I'm actually used to working this way. On Moulin Rouge! we didn't have a script. We had a picture book. That's what Baz [Luhrmann] presents to you, and then he writes and rewrites, and every weekend is choreographing something. Birth was like that too. I'd get the pages in the morning and shoot in the afternoon...
Directed by Moulin Rouge helmer Baz Luhrmann in a two-minute film first aired on TV last week, a Chanel-couture-clad Nicole Kidman plays--here's a stretch--a star fleeing the paparazzi...
...swirls, and an orchestra assaults the eardrums. Amid the chaos, Schumacher appears relaxed, even louche, as he watches the action through his monitor. He's having a good time. And he's just one of many directors out to revive the movie musical - a trend that began when Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge squeaked out a small profit in 2001, and gathered steam a year later when Rob Marshall's Chicago grossed over $170 million in the U.S. and bagged six Oscars. "Movie musicals went out of fashion for a long time," says Schumacher, "but finally it looks like they...
...very nice, but it felt inevitable. This is a fashion season in which commerce has triumphed over art, directors like Luhrmann and Robert Altman are making fragrance commercials, and celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Mick Jagger, Sofia Coppola and the Presley family (Priscilla, Lisa Marie and her daughter Riley Keogh) are mingling with the press at private dinner parties in Milan and Paris. The clothes--fabulous as many of them are--often seemed secondary to the loud whir of the celebrity p.r. machine...