Features
Wednesday, December 1 2010
Oprah, Australia, and Tourism: Defining 'Nation' as 'Product'
Since 2008, the "Oprah connection" has helped market Australia-the-product and illustrates an intriguing link among nations, television, film, and successful tourism.
Thursday, January 15 2009
OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008
There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!
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.
Thursday, September 11 2008
Talk, Talk, Talk: November 2008
Like the sainted sigh of relief that comes after another shriek-filled All Hallow's Eve, November usually means the start of the 'nominate me' process for the proposed prestige pictures of 2008.
Reviews
Wednesday, November 3 2010
'Moulin Rouge' Is a Silly, Campy, Wonderful Effort to Save the Movie Musical from Itself
The movie might seem oversized and unwieldy in its heedless pursuit of romantic sensation, but Luhrmann and company are speaking in cinematic language, not translating from Broadway -- and they do so with sophistication.
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.
Wednesday, November 26 2008
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.
Sunday, January 1 1995
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.
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.
Blogs
Wednesday, November 26 2008
Australia
He's been making movies since 1992. Yet in 16 years, he's completed only four projects - 1992's Strictly Ballroom, 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet,…
News
Wednesday, November 26 2008
Hugh Jackman brings epic sexiness to film epic 'Australia'
"Australia," the audacious epic from visionary director Baz Luhrmann, is being hailed as the Pacific "Gone With the Wind." The movie's scintillating star, Hugh Jackman,…
