When Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, a hyper-stylized and modern take on William Shakespeare’s tragic play about star-crossed lovers and forbidden love, came out, I was obsessed with it. Before I even ...
It takes a true artist to be thematically serious while humorously cynical and off-putting. Because of this, parodies are incredibly difficult to pull off. The University of Iowa’s theatre department ...
Image Credit: A still from 'Romeo + Juliet' (1996) (Image: 20th Century Fox) When Baz Luhrmann set out to make ‘Romeo + ...
Australian director Baz Luhrmann was at the Canadian film festival TIFF to present his new documentary about American royalty, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. While Luhrmann's spin on the tale wasn't ...
Claire Danes still remembers Leonardo DiCaprio stopping her from playing around with a prop gun on the set of Romeo + Juliet.