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Luminous Kidman Finds Home on the Range With Dirty, Sexy Jackman

Australia Running time 165 minutes Written by Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan Directed by Baz Luhrmann Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, Bryan Brown, David Wenham

Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, from his own original story, and a script written by Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan, frames its epic Read More

Pass the Stuffing: Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Is One Titanic Turkey

Australia Running time 165 minutes Written by Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, Richard Flanagan and Baz Luhrmann Directed by Baz Luhrmann Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, Bryan Brown, David Wenham

As year-end movies go, I had high hopes for Australia. I really wanted to like this one. In a jaded epoch of pretentiousness Read More

Filming Australia Was Hazardous to Hugh Jackman’s Health

Hugh [Jackman] is so at peace with himself—like a John Wayne or a Clint Eastwood—and she’s like electricity. Together, they are such a classic couple. And, well, he is the sexiest man alive!” said Australia director Baz Luhrmann, glancing in the direction of actors Nicole Kidman and Mr. Jackman (who People magazine recently deemed the Read More

Holiday Movies

Milk

We only needed to see the kick-ass trailer for Milk to slot this Gus Van Sant film straight into Best Picture contention. After all, it has all of those gold statuette elements: a true story—of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who was murdered alongside San Francisco Read More

The Big Tease

“Hair is an accessory,” declared Kerry Warn, the designer responsible for the larger-than-life looks on these pages, and the man in charge of Nicole Kidman’s mane on all her films for the past decade, including The Hours, Cold Mountain, Stepford Wives and the upcoming Australia.

“I think people tend not to enjoy their hair Read More

Aussies for Rudy

Meet Tim Crotty and Lila Moosad, vacationing educators from Australia who spent a small part of their afternoon enjoying the weather in City Hall Park. Today is only the first full day of their weeklong trip in America, but they’ve already formed opinions about the president elections here. Crotty's take: “If somebody like Giuliani was Read More

At 46, I’m Obsessed With My Muse, Alanis

I’m in Alanis Morissette withdrawal. I got her new CD, Under Rug Swept, when it came out last month, but now I’m in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, with nothing to play it on. I’m here to do long interviews with people on a serious historical subject, but four or five of Alanis’ songs keep playing in my Read More

Arbus Ambush! Fur Fails to Fly

There are many things I don’t understand about the movie business, but one of the most troubling is the fast-lane rush to buy up great books in order to change, trash, deconstruct and eviscerate them of everything that made them great in the first place. Even in an industry famous for castrating literature and rendering Read More

Nick Cave Has a Proposition And Some Truly Bad Seeds

John Hillcoat’s The Proposition, from a screenplay by Nick Cave, plays out as a mournful frontier ballad with many of the traits of postmodern American westerns. But the story unfolds against the barren backdrop of the 1880’s Australian outback, without the scenic wonders of the American West. From this mostly flattened-out perspective, it is virtually Read More

Nick Cave Has a Proposition And Some Truly Bad Seeds

John Hillcoat’s The Proposition, from a screenplay by Nick Cave, plays out as a mournful frontier ballad with many of the traits of postmodern American westerns. But the story unfolds against the barren backdrop of the 1880’s Australian outback, without the scenic wonders of the American West. From this mostly flattened-out perspective, it is virtually Read More

Why Lachlan Flew the Coop: It Was Rupe

Dynasties have their own logic, but generally they’re supposed to go to youth. The Murdoch family succession is going in the opposite direction. Now that Lachlan Murdoch has resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., a Post spokesperson has told The Observer that he will be replaced as publisher of the New York Read More

Graham Nickson Gives His Ocean Bathers Energy of Battle

A first encounter with the paintings of Graham Nickson is likely to be a daunting experience. Almost everything about the paintings-the physical scale, the intensity of color, the multiplicity of vividly depicted figures with muscular, highly charged physiques; above all, the shower-of-gold quality of the light that seems to derive from a solar system very Read More


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