On its 30th anniversary year, Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” is a snapshot of a unique cohesion between film and record ...
It takes a true artist to be thematically serious while humorously cynical and off-putting. Because of this, parodies are incredibly difficult to pull off. The University of Iowa’s theatre department ...
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
As Moulin Rouge! turns 25 and with Strictly Ballroom returning to cinemas, we plunge into the giddying, maximalist cinema of Baz Luhrmann and his tales of glamour, showmanship and doomed love.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s probably never been a time as ripe with “Romeo and Juliet” rip-offs as our contemporary era. Though it’s been 29 years ...
When Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, a hyper-stylized and modern take on William Shakespeare’s tragic play about star-crossed lovers and forbidden love, came out, I was obsessed with it. Before I even ...
If Baz Luhrmann's projects are known for anything, it's their bravado. In the Australian director's hands, an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is set in the present day, where the ...