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Director Baz Luhrmann??s new film “Australia” features all the elements of a classic Hollywood adventure and romance. It has the sweeping landscapes of “Lawrence of Arabia,” the dramatic cultural overtures of “Gone With the Wind,” the beautiful bantering leads of “The African Queen,” and the vaguely amusing stock background characters of “Casablanca.” Although “Australia” eventually succeeds in constructing itself as an epic film...
...stage during the Dunster House Opera Society’s (DHO) rendition of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (which ended its run in Dunster Dining Hall this weekend), but in the end, love and wisdom ruled the day. In a production of lovely postmodern excess reminiscent of Baz Luhrmann??s Moulin Rouge , the actors shone, the songs soared, and the audience was left bubbling with enjoyment after watching the story of an extra enamored with a movie star named Cundegonde...
...light of the success of films such as Baz Luhrmann??s Moulin Rouge!, flamboyance, debauchery and decadence have characterized our concept of late nineteenth-century Paris—an impression epitomized by Lautrec’s vibrant prints of that period. Examining Toulouse Lautrec’s lesser-known portraits, however, sheds new light on the essence of the individuals who constitute that world...
...case with their films, Ring’s Peter Jackson and Mind’s Ron Howard are sure things. Baz Luhrmann??s boldly excessive vision for Moulin Rouge assures him of a nomination as well. Despite Robert Altman’s snub from the Directors Guild of America (DGA), I’m confident that his multiple honors for Gosford Park (from the Globes, the AFI, and the New York critics, among others) are a sufficient bellwether for an Oscar nod. Ridley Scott’s DGA and AFI nominations for his command of Black Hawk Down?...
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