Baz Luhrmann

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• Cannes Film Festival opens with 'The Great Gatsby,' star-studded jury including Nicole Kidman

  Cannes Film Festival is getting under way with a blockbuster day of Steven Spielberg and Baz Luhrmann 's "The Great Gatsby."The French Riviera extravaganza began on a rainy Wednesday, where the prestigious festival was to open with the 3-D adaptation of F.   Read more »

• 'The Great Gatsby' team delves into author's life

  about a draft of the 1925 novel, the title character "is somewhat vague." Hazy doesn't work in cinema, so when director Baz Luhrmann decided to bring "Gatsby" to the screen, he and his creative team went on the filmmaking equivalent of an anthropological dig.The   Read more »

• Port Washington theater shows 'Great Gatsby' sneak preview

  Baz Luhrmann personally brought "The Great Gatsby" to Long Island Wednesday night, hosting a sneak preview of the film for an invite-only crowd at Port Washington's newly re-opened Soundview Cinemas. The film officially opens Friday.The event, which featured   Read more »

• "Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film 'The Great Gatsby'" review: Jazz to hip-hop

  I park things, yellow cars, yellow gold like Slick Rick ."That's the most direct link between now and then on "Music From Baz Luhrmann 's Film 'The Great Gatsby' " (Interscope), but, as the soundtrack's executive producer, Jay fills it with songs that also   Read more »

Around the web

• The Spirit and the Letter

  director of The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann made a controversial choice in choosing to depict the parties of the Roaring Twenties with music featuring today’s top artists and styles. In one sense, this made the movie a less “true” depiction of what life during 6/17/13 from Patheos Blogs Read more »

• Jay-Z announces new album details

  on the new Great Gatsby film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. He had executive producer role, helping director Baz Luhrmann put together the jazz performances on screen and arrange the soundtrack. Jay-Z is up for four BET Awards, announced later 6/17/13 from BBC News Read more »

• Trailer for J.D. Salinger documentary released

  of a documentary film that will be released this fall. This is a big year for literature in films, between the overblown Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby and the much more appealing take on Much Ado About Nothing by Joss Whedon hitting screens in recent weeks, and   from Melville House Publishing Read more »

• Review: Sofia Coppola's 'The Bling Ring' Starring Emma Watson

  cinema seems preoccupied with the emptiness of excess, at least in the first half of 2013. Baz Luhrmann luxuriates in the meaningless wealth of "The Great Gatsby," while Harmony Korine put his own twisted spin on the dark soul of the American dream in "Spring   from Indie Wire Read more »

• Romeo and Juliet

  Luhrmann is the director of the modernised film Romeo and Juliet- written by Shakespeare in the 1700s. Luhrmen uses cinematic techniques to help make Shakespearian dialogue understandable to a modern audience. He uses techniques such as camera work, appearance   from OpPapers.com Read more »