Baz Luhrmann – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com Entertainment News, Celebrities and Fandoms Tue, 02 Jan 2024 09:59:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.geekfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-Geekfeed-Favicon-White-32x32.png Baz Luhrmann – Geekfeed https://www.geekfeed.com 32 32 WATCH: Priscilla Presley Breaks Down Scenes from ‘Priscilla’ https://www.geekfeed.com/priscilla-presley-on-scenes-from-priscilla/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 09:59:35 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=80282 Last year may have seen Elvis Presley return to the spotlight with Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic, but this year sees the King of Rock and Roll’s wife Priscilla Presley getting to tell her story in A24’s Priscilla.

The movie has just become available for video on demand, and we have a new featurette of Presley actually talking about scenes from the movie and how she felt around the time. Watch this:

The film had earned mostly positive reviews, what with the spotlight finally being given to someone else who was so closely tied to the story of Elvis Presley. A lot of fans do like to point out that Priscilla was only a 14-year-old when she met Presley, and the movie doesn’t hold back when showing just how different the two were; even the height difference can feel disturbing.

Despite the critical praise, there are also some that think that the film shines a poor light on Elvis, who has a very loyal fanbase to this day. Despite this, I think that Priscilla’s story still deserves to be said, and it’s an interesting look into the toxicity that fame and first love can bring to a relationship.

The official synopsis for the movie reads:

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame.

Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla is now available for video on demand.

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Faraway Downs: 2008’s Australia Starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman Gets Expanded into a Minseries https://www.geekfeed.com/faraway-downs-2008s-australia-expanded/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 17:33:34 +0000 https://www.geekfeed.com/?p=79524 Baz Luhrmann’s Australia didn’t manage to make waves when it came out back in 2008, but it still managed to nab some top stars with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. Though the film was considered to be Luhrmann’s biggest flop, it looks like Australia is going to try to find its legs more than a decade later again as a miniseries.

Here’s the trailer for Faraway Downs:

The official description reads:

An English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) who travels halfway across the world to confront her wayward husband and sell an unusual asset: a million-acre cattle ranch in the Australian Outback called ‘Faraway Downs’. Following the death of her husband, a ruthless Australian cattle baron, King Carney, plots to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover (Jackman) to protect her ranch.

The sweeping adventure romance is explored through the eyes of young Nullah, a bi-racial Indigenous Australian child caught up in the government’s draconian racial policy now referred to as the “Stolen Generations.” Together the trio experiences four life-altering years, a love affair between Lady Ashley and the Drover, and the unavoidable impact of World War II on Northern Australia.

The series essentially takes Luhrmann’s almost 3-hour film and spreads it across six episodes. We don’t know if there was any new footage that was added to the film, but at almost three hours, you can expect the movie to have a lot of extra shots as well as some deleted scenes.

With 2008 being the year where a lot of great films came out from Iron Man and The Dark Knight to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, you can imagine that Australia definitely had a lot of competition when it came out that year.

Luhrmann was already said to have trouble getting the movie over the finish line when it released, but even if Australia didn’t manage to captivate audiences then, maybe 2023 audiences will be more forgiving with a miniseries.

Faraway Downs release on Disney+ on Nov. 26.

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