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...this anymore, so let me be one of the first to do so. The history of Australia is infinitely darker, more complex and ambiguous than this movie makes it out to be. I know that director Luhrmann can be a much more self-conscious director - see his insanely pretentious Moulin Rouge! - than he is here. But this movie, appearing at the beginning of the season in which movies ranging from Milk to Revolutionary Road go all sober and morally instructive on us, puts us back in touch with our giddy side, with that old-fashioned, low-minded desire just...
...with his friend Paul Gauguin? And then there’s Paul Gauguin himself, who is known for his attempt to escape European civilization in search a pre-civilization good life in Tahiti. There is the sadly romantic story of the dwarfen Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who would frequent the Moulin Rouge to pine after the beautiful, tall dancer Jane Avril.But Daniel Kehlmann, the author of the novel, “Me & Kaminski,” disputes whether one can reduce an artist’s life to such stories. Kehlmann embarks on an ambitious project to chronicle the process...
From the runway to the red carpet, couturier Christian Lacroix always makes a statement with his bold, over-the-top creations. To the delight of travelers, he has applied that flamboyance to the Hôtel du Petit Moulin, an offbeat hostelry situated in the Marais district - the epicenter of Paris fashion...
...like 2005's The Producers and Rent. Viewers currently like their cinematic fantasy fairly realistic, the better to suspend disbelief. But in reality, only crazy people break into song in the course of regular conversation. Conversely, the weirder the movie musical is, the better it appears to work (see Moulin Rouge! or Chicago). This would seem to play to Burton's and Depp's strengths...
...GENIUS IN CHARGE 2001's Moulin Rouge!, a fever dream that weaves together can-can dances, Elton John songs and lots of close-ups of Nicole Kidman's never-ending legs, could only have come from one man's brain. "You could only do that with a Baz," says Meron, meaning Australian director Baz Luhrman. "It's all about his expression as an artist." Burton, an equally idiosyncratic artistic mind, is at work on this year's Sweeney Todd. Some of us are very eager to see what Edward Scissorhands does to meat pies...