BAZ DAZZLED!
Monday, September 22, 2014 at 11:15AM
Manuel here with some Spectacular Spectacular news!
This one goes out to those Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin fanatics out there (there’s still a number of us, right?). Since releasing The Great Gatsby ...sorry, two-time Academy Award winner The Great Gatsby, Baz has been flexing his muscles elsewhere: he directed some beautiful shorts for the Prada/Schiaparelli exhibit at the Metropolitan museum, he directed the musical stage adaptation of Strictly Ballroom currently playing in Sydney, and threw quite the lavish party (does he throw any other kind?) to commemorate the opening of Melbourne’s newest mall, Emporium. We’ve also been hearing whispers of him possibly directing the long-gestating Stanley Kubrick project on Napoleon for HBO. While we wait, those of us in the tri-state area (or those visiting) may get our Baz-fix from the holiday windows at Barney’s this winter in what the retail company is calling a “Baz Dazzled Holiday”; a title which is equal parts flamboyant, ridiculous, and flashy which is to say, Baz in a nutshell.
Style. Fashion. Razzle-dazzle. It really feels like a match made in Spectacular Spectacular! heaven. Let’s throw suggestions out here for what Baz & Martin might come up with for Barney’s. Are you hoping for some holiday pop mish-mash worthy of a Shakespearean couple, or maybe for a 1930s glitzy winter wonderland?
Also, I wouldn’t be doing this news tidbit any justice if I didn’t in some way shoehorn in this picture, taken during New York Fashion week of Baz and his two Moulin Rouge! stars, Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor which Nat may have missed in his TIFF-frenzy. They do make quite the dapper trio, don't you agree?
Reader Comments (10)
FIRST GONE GIRL REVIEW "GIRD YOUR LOINS!
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/review/a597074/gone-girl-review-rosamund-pike-a-revelation-in-david-fincher-thriller.html#~oQBC0ScWyC7Ph0
i most definitely did not see that photo of the three of them so thanks for sharing!
^^^
"Pike, so often a decorative supporting player, delivers a career-defining performance here. She's a revelation, showing a complete command over Amy - with any luck Gone Girl should bag her an Oscar nomination come awards season."
hmmm....
Yeah, the review in THR points out Pike and likes all the cast including Affleck saying he is perfect (except NPH--didn't like him). Liked the film but felt Fincher has been coasting a bit with his last few films including this one. But it def sounds like a contender.
I will never apologize for my neverending lust of Baz Luhrman. He's like Anderson Cooper's hot Aussie cousin.
I'm sorry...but I think my biggest blogging pet peeve is when people comment and it has nothing to do with the post...
Joey - nor should you apologize. Agreed. Though lately i'm not sure. I think he's had some work done now and the face is starting to look a little odd from certain angles
and i know what you mean about off topic comments but those reviews sent several of us at NYFF into a rage because why even have a world premiere or hype that you have one and then show it early? The press screening for those writing up the festival is the day of the world premiere (indicating it was supposed to be a big blast of news that day to celebrate the film and the festival) and that's still a week away. So tacky of NYFF or Columbia Pictures or whoever is responsible.
I blame Columbia. They have announced back here in The Show Me State that they are doing an invited screening in Cape Girardeau (where much of it was filmed) in advance of the main premier or something like that.
It hurts my heart that I'm in Manhattan and the Moulin Rouge Holy Trinity was somewhere nearby and I MISSED IT. oh man, i would've cleared my entire schedule to get down there for a glimpse and openly weep if i got a picture.
I'm totally going to make the pilgrimage (it might be like a whole two subway stops) to Barney's to see what's up.
I will admit that he definitely had a tweak or two in the past few years though.
Agree on Luhrman's odd transformation. The upper half of his face is looking very Kidman circa mid-aughts.