Baz Luhrmann
Last week, I mentioned that “Iron Man 3” felt overly focus-grouped. The filmmakers, it seems, were so busy trying to appeal to everyone that they ended up with a movie that was hard for anyone to actually care about. It’s a problem that many blockbusters fall...
The Cannes Film Festival gets underway on Wednesday with Australian director Baz Luhrmann's 3D extravaganza "The Great Gatsby", a lavish production eclipsing more modest launches in recent years that reflected global economic gloom.Already...
From palatial mansions on Long Island to skyscrapers in Manhattan, it's not hard to find architectural remnants of the roaring 20's exemplified in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and the new film adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Life is a cabaret, old sport, or maybe halftime at the Super Bowl in Baz Luhrmann’s overhyped and overheated 3-D adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” — the fifth time Hollywood has taken on the 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel that many consider the...
There’s nothing quite like celebrating “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s scathing critique of American upper class values, with a lavish, corporate-sponsored party in the Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III room of the New York Public Library, hosted...
See a slideshow of the best art-inspired fashion editorials.From early Netherlandish portraiture to sixties pop, art is fertile ground for fashion editorials. In a recent spring editorial for El Pais's fashion supplement, SMODA, Eugenico Recuenco...
Every so often a film comes along that proves to be a watershed for the fashion world, providing relief for the wardrobe-weary and respite from the retail doldrums. A quick mental review yields an endless array of cinematic fashion moments, from Audrey...
Miuccia Prada unveiled four sketches of her costume designs for the hotly anticipated Baz Luhrmann film “The Great Gatsby” set for release this summer. Prada worked with costumer designer Catherine Martin to create over 40 looks for the film, inspired by...
Carey Mulligan, last seen giving a tantalizingly off-kilter performance as the damaged sister in “Shame,” has chosen another fallen angel for her next role.In the black-comedy thriller “Nancy and Danny,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, the 27-year-old...
A few pages into “May Day,” the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story published in 1920 in the literary magazine the Smart Set, one Yale grad announces to another Yale grad that he wants to go buy some new clothes, and he wants to buy them at a place in New York...
