Review: "Australia"
The players: Director: Baz Luhrmann, Writers: Stuart Beattie, Richard Flanagan, Ronald Harwood, Baz Luhrmann, Cast: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, David Wenham, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson Facts of interest: It took nine months to shoot "Australia." The plot: Nicole Kidman stars as an English aristocrat who travels to Australia to drive her inherited cattle to the town of Darwin. Helping her out is a stockman called Drover (Hugh Jackman). Our thoughts: Like it or not, Baz Luhrmann’s “Australi

MOVIE REVIEW: Australia
One who is allergic to the ordinary is OK in my books. Director Baz Luhrmann, who dazzled audiences with unexplored visuals in Moulin Rouge!, continues his streak with Australia, a big budget love film that has become archaistic these days. Big epics and costly productions for the adult crowd seem to have gone obsolete in recent years. All of that is about to change as Australia channels films like Gone with the Wind, Casablanca and African Queen.” Look at Luhrmann’s work, don’t see it.

Australia plays starring role in new movie
SYDNEY, Australia - The film camera sweeps across the landscape, taking in flat plains, gushing waterfalls and a dusty country town. The color is brilliant, the emptiness palpable, and the soundtrack soars dramatically as warplanes bomb a city. This is “Australia,” the new movie by award-winning director Baz Luhrmann. The World War II-era romantic epic, which opened yesterday, has been hailed for its cinematography and its pairing of Australian film stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. But to

Our Third Annual Thanksgiving Movie Guide is Here!
Every year, Hollywood releases a handful of movies on Thanksgiving week. Whether they're movies to take the whole family to or just pure entertainment, there's always a wide variety to choose from. To help tackle this year's line-up, our writer Marco Cerritos has put together a Thanksgiving Movie Guide. He made sure to see every last movie playing in theaters this week, even the bad ones, in order to provide you with a cinematic compass of sorts. If you're struggling to figure out what to see this weekend,

Luhrmann Had Several Endings for Australia
Director Baz Luhrmann planned several different endings to his new movie Australia before making the final decision on the film's conclusion.The moviemaker was recently rumoured to have scrapped the original finale - because test audiences found the story too sad.Luhrmann vehemently denied the claims, insisting movie bosses would never be able to manipulate his work. Comment on this Article But the director has now revealed that he was torn over how to end the picture, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh J

AUSTRALIA Review
I’ve always been a big fan of director Baz Luhrmann’s ability to take us on an unforgettable cinematic journey and AUSTRALIA is one that will not only do so but it will also make sure you leave the theater with a lasting impression of… the magic power the land down under has, especially when handled so carefully by a man who knows firsthand about its beauty and how to work it to his advantage. Epic, Majestic, Grand, Colossal, those are some of the words that run through your mind as you s

Nuova locandina per Australia
Dopo lo spettacolare trailer, ecco una nuova locandina di Australia, il nuovo kolossal di Baz Luhrmann con Nicole Kidman e...

Luhrmann Had Several Endings for Australia
Director Baz Luhrmann planned several different endings to his new movie Australia before making the final decision on the film's conclusion.The moviemaker was recently rumoured to have scrapped the original finale - because test audiences found the story too sad.Luhrmann vehemently denied the claims, insisting movie bosses would never be able to manipulate his work. Comment on this Article But the director has now revealed that he was torn over how to end the picture, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh J

'Australia'
"Australia" is a double feature all by itself, a film that comes with its own built-in sequel. At 2 hours, 35 minutes, it has room for both a cattle drive movie and a war movie, with a romantic drama thrown into the mix to tie both parts together. With a story this expansive, it's no wonder they named it after a continent. ¶ Yes, this is filmmaking in the old-fashioned epic style but only up to a point. When director and co-writer Baz Luhrmann says, "This film's DNA comes from the same stock as 'Gone W

New ‘Australia’ trailer
I’ve been hearing some good things about Hugh Jackman’s performance all along, but for some reason, he’s never cracked my Best Actor chart.  It’s a crowded field, but anyway, this is a great trailer.  I’m a Baz supporter through and through, and I’ve been told this isn’t the straight-up epic it appears to be from the materials released so far.  It isn’t Baz restraining his vision for the sake of a style of film he hasn’t tackled yet; it is very much a

New Trailer for ‘Australia’
The newest trailer courtesy of MovieWeb. Another masterpiece from Baz has Oscar written all over it. Kidman and Jackman were made for this type of epic movie. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Tagged under | australia, Baz Luhrmann, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website

New 'Australia' Trailer: A Romantic Adventure with Wolverine and The Others
If Crocodile Dundee II were a big-budget Lifetime Original Movie based loosely on Pearl Harbor, this is what it would look like. Except this is directed by Moulin Rouge's Baz Luhrmann, stars Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, and will surely be nominated for several Oscars, whereas the Lifetime version would be called Danielle Steel's Down Under, and would be watched by only sad housewives. It looks pretty good if you're into that whole sweeping, epic romance sort of thing (no one is judging you): Co

Baz Luhrmann Wants To Give The Future A Makeover [Exclusive]
newVideoPlayer("/baz_io9.flv", 506, 423,""); Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann is tinkering with the idea of filming a classic futuristic tale, he told io9. We caught up with Baz at his Australia premiere, and he admitted he'd thought about switching from movies set in the past to creating stories set in the future. Baz thinks the future has gotten a bit old-fashioned, but he's got some ideas for spicing it up.Baz, you've done two movies now looking back on the past do you think that we'll ever see a new

TECH SUPPORT: Best Costume Design — Volume I
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design recognizes, shock of shocks, the clothes and accessories worn by actors in a film.  Clothing can add to the story and express the nature and situation of the characters who wear them. If a single word could be used to describe this category, it would be “period.”  31 of the 40 nominees here this decade were period pieces.  This is not altogether surprising.  Period clothes automatically draw attention by not being the sort of fashion we see every d

TECH SUPPORT: Best Sound Mixing — Volume I
Those words from Al Jolson forever changed filmmaking in 1927, ushering in “talkies” and bringing about the beginning of the end of the silent film era. The Academy Award for sound mixing recognizes the artists who fashion a film’s audio side.  It must be distinguished from Best Sound Editing, which is the integration of artificially created sound effects into the mix.  Mixing is the blending of those effects, along with dialogue, music and any other noise captured during filming.  The Oscar a

Opening November 26: 'Australia'
Set against the scenic backdrop of pre-World War II Australia, Baz Luhrmann's romantic period adventure stars Nicole Kidman as an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch, and Hugh Jackman as... Continue Summary Pictures / Videos / More

New Trailer for Luhrmann’s Australia
I haven’t seen a good, sweeping romance since 2006’s The Painted Veil and even that seems small potatoes compared to the grandness of Baz Luhrmann sweeping Australia. I’ve already gushed and moaned at how badly I want to see this film and this new trailer only adds to my already heightened level of excitement. Granted, not much new to go on here but it features even more footage from the film and a score that doesn’t really work for me but I’m willing to overlook that one smal

Australia: A Romantic Wardrobe, Part I
Today, the highly anticipated romantic adventure Australia, directed by Baz Lurhmann, releases. I had the opportunity to preview the film, in all its romantic glory, as well as to speak with the costume designer, Catherine Martin. We also had a fun fete at the San Francisco Ferragamo store, in honor of Lady Ashley's shoes in the movie — all designed by the Italian fashion house. Two styles of limited-edition shoes were reproduced from the movie and are being sold at Ferragamo stores; 950 were made, and th

Baz Luhrmann Ads Propose Australian Tourism as Salve for Shattered American Lives [Untruth In Advertising]
Baz Luhrmann's boundless ambition may have met its match in a new pair of TV spots commissioned by Tourism Australia, an organization still reeling from its failure to entice international visitors two years ago with its bikini-clad representative scolding, "Where the bloody hell are you?" This time around, the tourism board opted for the more cheerful specter of an Aboriginal child whose fistful of fairy dust cures everything from burnout to bipolar disorder, all graphically allayed against the backdrop of

Michael Johns at Australia Movie Premiere
American Idol season 7 finalist, Michael Johns, was spotted on the red carpet at the premiere for the new movie Australia.  The film stars Michael’s fellow Aussie’s, Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and was directed by Baz Luhrmann.  I have zero intention of seeing this film since I really hated Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann directed and Kidman also starred in that).  Anyone going to see it? Anyway, Michael looked really good (didn’t he?!) and I’m glad he got out to support hi