Thursday, March 12 2009
Australia
As far as films go, this one's rather like a fleeting romance that wants to be a torrid affair.
Australia
Australia is both an epic and a post-epic epic: it understands what's at stake in such spectacle-making and wants to show you that it knows.
Thursday, October 16 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3
Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.
Monday, November 22 2004
Chanel No. 5 The Film: Le Film du Film
Luhrmann has his finger on the postmodern impulse to recombine ideas specific to advertising, film, and art.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Moulin Rouge (2001)
I imagine that at the 'real' Moulin Rouge, the thrill wasn't just a bit of nipple and a flash of panties, but the whole entertainment package, which no doubt included exuberant 'daring' new music intended to shock and titillate the sensitivity of the bourgeoisie -- kind of like rock-and-roll or punk in our times.
Moulin Rouge (2001)
She's the perfect drag queen, embodying the ruthless paradox of entertainment. She is the show that must go on and cannot.
