If you think roughly three-quarters of Hollywood's output arrives between now and Christmas day, that's probably because it does. Or at least it seems like it does. Thanksgiving marks the official kick-off of the holiday season, and there's something at the box office for everyone in your family. Here's a handy guide to the Thanksgiving Read More
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
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
“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
Yesterday we were able to catch an early screening of the highly anticipated Australia. This is the first film from Baz Luhrmann since 2001’s Moulin Rouge! and there’s been an awful lot of chatter among those who like to chatter about such things (Oprah loves it!) over whether or not this film was Read More
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
“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
If you're looking for a meme to grab onto during the upcoming Oscar season, try this: in an effort to make pre-established release dates, studios are rushing their prestige films to the detriment of the product. And we thought that only happened with summer tent poles!
We first noticed a month ago when The Weinstein Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
