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Baz Luhrmann
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Baz Luhrmann is one of film’s most interesting directors, unfortunately he’s ... one of the least productive. After his first movie Strictly Ballroom in 1992, it took him four years before he finally released Romeo + Juliet. Since then, his downtime between movies has only grown. Five years between Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, and now at least seven years will pass before he makes another movie. A movie which now has a title, if not an actual shooting schedule.
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Baz Luhrmann's latest film, Australia, has been filmed in Sydney, Bowen, Queensland, and Kununurra, Western Australia, and is now in post-production for release later in 2008. The film is described as an Australian period epic starring Australian actors Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
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THEATRICAL RELEASE TO BE DETERMINED In the seven years since the release of MOULIN ROUGE, director Baz Luhrmann has had time to craft this epic action-romance set in the first half of the 20th century. He reunites with Nicole Kidman, who stars as an English beauty trying to save her Australian ranch by teaming up with a cattle driver, played by Hugh Jackman.
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Baz Luhrmann (Director) has achieved success in film, opera, theatre, and music. With designer Catherine Martin, he is the founder and director of Bazmark Inq. He conceived and directed the stage version of Strictly Ballroom. Luhrmann has staged several classic and original productions for the Australian Opera including Lake Lost (1988) (Victorian Green Room Award for Best Director), Puccini's La Boheme (1990) (MO Award for Operatic Performance of the Year), and a Hindi interpretation of Benjamin Britten's operatic version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1993) (Victorian Green Room Award for Best Director). The production was invited to the Edinburgh Festival becoming the hit of the Festival winning the Critics' Prize.
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Despite his short filmography (Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge), Baz Luhrmann has become one of the most buzzed-about movie directors in the business. If you've seen one of his films, you have an opinion - and a director with Luhrmann's unique vision wouldn't have it any other way. This year, his film Moulin Rouge has been nominated for eight Oscars (conspicuously absent is a nomination for Best Director). In other Luhrmann news, Strictly Ballroom, his first feature film, comes to DVD for the first time today from Buena Vista Home Entertainment. Talk to Baz Luhrmann about his work.
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Luhrmann doesn't make it easy on his cast, either. Because "La Boheme" plays a throat-shredding eight shows a week, multiple singers take the lead roles on different nights: three pairings of the seamstress Mimi and the poet Rodolfo, and two combinations of the painter Marcello and his off-and-on flame Musetta. Luhrmann's team auditioned 2,000 singers--almost all with formal operatic training--to find 10 who could both sing and act. Then he worked with them on motivation for a month before he even let them sing. "Usually, you get two weeks to rehearse," says David Miller, 29, one of the Rodolfos, "and it's all about traffic patterns and stock gestures--it's like pantomime. You don't have time to delve into character."
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