Tag Archives: Baz Luhrman’s Australia
I Get Asked What I Think Sometimes…
12.8 million For Hugh, Nothing For You The news this week for film industry types is that Hugh Jackman is going to bring his next Wolverine production back to Sydney. Because the degree of my jadedness – my ad-jade-ment if … Continue reading
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Scum Dog Paupers
Yes Mr. Sheridan, ‘Australia’ Sucks …but Australian Cinema does not! This article came to me from Pleiades. After a brilliant rebirth in the 1970s, it has become steadily worse. Our individual performers conquer all in Hollywood and London, and even … Continue reading
Squirm-Worthy
At Least Being Dumb Isn’t One Of Her Problems A couple of weeks ago it was suggested that it was the nasty reviews that hounded Nicole Kidman out of town, but it turns out it was actually seeing her own … Continue reading
It Might Be Hubris
Or It Might Just Be Plain Awfulness Pleiades sent in this article here with more feedback about Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’. So why hasn’t it happened for Australia? What’s the problem? Here are two reasons, neither of which is necessarily Baz … Continue reading
Laws Of Australian Cinematics
David Dale’s View David Dale regales us with his three laws of Cinematics: The First Law of Cinematics: To predict the success of a big budget movie in Australia, multiply its first week’s takings by three. The nation’s favourite flick … Continue reading
Baz Mounts Defense of ‘Australia’
Because Evidently It’s Not Speaking For Itself Baz Luhrmann is sounding like he’s not enjoying the roasting. Here’s a Reuters article on the director’s perspective on his own film. “A lot of reviewers like ‘Australia.’ And we’re making people cry; … Continue reading
Don’t Do A Bond Movie, Baz
Done Their Dash Here’s something interesting. ‘Ostraya’ might have been the last hurrah, rather than the next wave. Luhrmann admits that executives at 20th Century Fox, the Hollywood studio behind the film, were having problems marketing it to audiences because … Continue reading
Like A Film School Movie
Ideologically Straitjacketed Years ago, the Dude from Audio Darnok and I went through our own little hell at AFTRS. It was just one of those things where we wanted to make a science fiction action movie and the School Administration … Continue reading
The Knives Out
You Win Some, You Lose Some The Sydney Morning Herald is playfully writing that Nicole Kidman is under siege by the critics. Nick Curtis from London’s Evening Standard fired the first salvo, condemning her English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley as … Continue reading
Bill Bennett And His Auteurs-Are-Bad Theory
Describing Symptoms Does Not Make A Diagnosis That’s the best bit of life-experience I got in my brief time as Medical student. It’s so true when you come up against a real suffering person, after spending time behind books and … Continue reading
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