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Baz Luhrmann

July 2024

  • woman wearing white shirt and wings kisses man in knight's armor

    Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen

    A new season of films celebrates how different directors have found a way to bring Shakespeare’s work forward, from Baz Luhrmann to Derek Jarman

June 2024

  • RTE News Henry Winkler

    Don’t you know who I am? Why vox-poppers surprised by celebrities is such a good thing

    Henry Winkler praised his rescuers, Chloë Sevigny talked us through her outfit, Baz Luhrmann gave dating advice – without all being recognised! They are just like us after all

May 2024

  • Baz Luhrmann interviewed in Newtown by TikToker Georgia Godworth.

    ‘I just didn’t recognise him!’ TikToker interviews Baz Luhrmann without knowing who he is – and they talk group sex

    Sydney comedian Georgia Godworth admits she didn’t realise she had spoken with famous Australian director on Newtown street until a month later

  • TikTok comedian unknowingly stops Baz Luhrmann in Sydney street and talks 'foursomes' – video

    Sydney comedian Georgia Godworth riffed with the famed director on a Newtown street
  • ‘After two minutes, the radio switchboard was going crazy’ … Luhrmann, who turned Mary Schmich’s column into a global phenomenon.

    How we made
    ‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’: Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

    ‘Some kid had credited a column of life advice in the Chicago Tribune to the writer of Slaughterhouse-Five. It then spread on a new invention called the world wide web. I thought it would make a great spoken word song’

December 2023

  • Spot-on … Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi in Priscilla.

    True suede shoes: is Priscilla or Elvis more accurate?

    One had the beehive hairdo just right, but the other did a better job on the King’s hip-swing. We asked three Elvis experts to give their verdicts on Sofia Coppola’s dreamy biopic and Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 epic

November 2023

  • Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley and Hugh Jackman as the drover in Faraway Downs

    TV review
    Faraway Downs review – Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman play two of the worst characters ever

  • Cut shorty … Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon.

    Directors are turning to streaming to fulfil their epic visions – and avoid ‘bum ache’

October 2023

  • Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in Baz Luhrmann’s 2008 film Australia

    Faraway Downs: a first look at Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to remake his biggest flop

  • Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in Baz Luhrmann’s 2008 film Australia.

    Baz Luhrmann to debut extended version of film Australia as six-part TV series Faraway Downs

March 2023

  • 37th Annual American Society Of Cinematographers<br>BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 05: Mandy Walker, winner of the Theatrical Feature Film award for "Elvis," poses with Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin in the press room during the 37th Annual American Society of Cinematographers at The Beverly Hilton on March 05, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

    Australian arts in focus
    ‘We figured out how to dance with Elvis’: Australian cinematographer Mandy Walker on her Oscar chances

    She could become the first woman to win an Academy Award in her category. Her attention to historical detail may get her over the line

January 2023

  • Baz Luhrmann photographed at the Picadilly Theatre in London. Baz Luhrmann is an Australian writer, director, and producer with projects spanning film, television, opera, theatre, music, and recording industries. He is regarded by many as a contemporary example of an auteur for his distinctly recognizable style and deep involvement in the writing, directing, design, and musical components of all his work. He is the most commercially successful Australian director, with four of his films in the top ten highest worldwide grossing Australian films of all time. On the screen he is best known for his Red Curtain Trilogy, comprising his romantic comedy film Strictly Ballroom (1992), the romantic tragedy William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996), and Moulin Rouge! (2001). Following the trilogy, projects included Australia (2008), The Great Gatsby (2013), and his television limited series period drama The Get Down for Netflix.

    This much I know
    Baz Luhrmann: ‘I need freedom above all else’

    The film director, 60, on what inspires him, the life-changing meeting he had with his wife, and why running away from home was his first act of rebellion

December 2022

  • Composite: Film stills clockwise from top left: RRR, EO, Kimi and Elvis

    Cannibals! Crying! Carrots! The best movie moments of 2022

    From Elvis to Eo, Guardian writers have picked their most indelible scenes from this year’s big screen line-up
  • Frankie Corio and Paul Mescal hugging in Aftersun.

    Observer critics' review of 2022
    Film: Mark Kermode’s 10 best of 2022

    From Hindi crime drama to medieval teen empowerment, Graceland to Bradford to Iran, the year was rich in unforgettable performances
  • Chris Hemsworth

    Australian arts in focus
    Aacta awards 2022: Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, Mystery Road and Heartbreak High win big

    Mandy Walker became the first female to win best cinematographer for Elvis, which beat out the Drover’s Wife and the Stranger in most film categories

August 2022

  • From L-R: Marcus Corowa, Lola Montez, Hugh Jackman and Jason Donovan.

    Sorted
    The 15 greatest Australian musicals, on stage and screen – sorted

    From the glittery fun of Priscilla to a whole show about the career of Paul Keating, here are the musicals that sing to audiences both in Australia and around the world

July 2022

  • SHONKA DUKUREH in ELVIS (2022), directed by BAZ LUHRMANN. Credit: WARNER BROS. / Album<br>2JC4NDM SHONKA DUKUREH in ELVIS (2022), directed by BAZ LUHRMANN. Credit: WARNER BROS. / Album

    Elvis actor Shonka Dukureh dies one month after big screen debut

    The 44-year-old singer, who portrayed Big Mama Thornton in Baz Luhrmann’s latest film, was found unresponsive in her Nashville home

June 2022

  • A composite image of scenes from The Great Gatsby, Romeo + Juliet, Elvis, and Moulin Rouge!.

    Sorted
    From Strictly Ballroom to Elvis: the career of Baz Luhrmann – sorted

    The Australian auteur’s films are intoxicating, polarising spectacles – so from the very bad (Australia) to the very good, we rank his works across film and TV
  • Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.

    All shook up: how accurate is Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic?

    The director faced a colossal task in condensing the King’s two-decade-plus career into a single feature. So how did he fare?
  • Austin Butler as Elvis

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Elvis review – blistering, turbocharged chronicle of the King

    With electrifying performances from Austin Butler as Elvis and Tom Hanks as Colonel Parker, Baz Luhrmann’s whirlwind biopic is cinematic dynamite
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