Baz Luhrmann

What Gatsby Gets Wrong: Ten Ways the New Movie Will Trip Up the Lazy Students of Tomorrow

See Also: 10 Shot Comparisons Between the 1974 and 2013 Gatsbys

The Great Gatsby: Beautiful and damned

Baz Luhrman's silver-screen interpretation of Fitzgerald's novel oozes gaudy decadence

Radiohead's "Exit Music (For a Film)" as a Romeo and Juliet teaching tool

Tyler Flory is a teacher at Main Street School of Performing Arts in Hopkins. His Music Class column ties together his job and his music fandom in a neat little package. A staple of 9th grade English is reading Shakespeare. He is arguably the greatest playwright who has ever lived, and his legend c ... More >>

Mid West Music Fest 2013 Day One: Astronautalis, Retribution Gospel Choir, and more

MWFM Day One With Astronautalis, Retribution Gospel Choir, The Ericksons, Wildflower, Paulie Matushek and Wake Up Bedhead Winona, Minnesota Thursday, April 18, 2013 The fourth annual Mid West Music Fest got off to a bit of a shaky start on Thursday -- at least weather wise, as fans band bands drivi ... More >>

Australia makes you want to take Jackman, Kidman out back

Baz Luhrmann's film is sorely predictable

Illusions of Perfection

Renoir lets those without sin get cast in other people's movies

Prince and the Revolution

'The Legend of Suriyothai' is an action epic of royal proportions

Where to Aim, When to Shoot

Film as a weapon in a time of war: Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival coverage.

Dis Bard

O forces Shakespeare to concede to Gore

Auteur Author

The Biz of Baz

Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge takes the search for art to the bank.

The Plaisir Principle

Or, Cannes 2001: How to love the movies without hating yourself

Electric Cannes Opener

Gold Diggers of 2000

Actor-director Kenneth Branagh enters his Love's Labour's Lost in this year's musical movie sweepstakes

It's a Wrap

The Mpls/St. Paul International Film Festival swaddles the Cities in cinema

Teen Angel