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Review: The "Great" Gatsby
8:30 AM 5/10/2013 by Sara Vizcarrondo
Baz Lurmann’s Great Gatsby is garish and bright, chocked with the bling you hoped he’d throw around like it’s cheap—and it is. His high-budget/low-brow spectacles are perfect for reproducing the moral vacuum of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book, and for all its anachronisms, Lurmann’s reproduction couldn’t be more loyal to the text:
Some Feelings on Luhrman and Gatsby
12:45 PM 4/21/2013 by Sara Vizcarrondo
May 3rd the director who “decoded” gaslight melodrama and Shakespeare with uber-modern over-the-top-ness, will perplex and delight with his revisionist play on Fitzgerald. I can’t wait. Ironically, it’s not a subject I love. I don’t have special affections for the book or for director Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet), it’s just a perfect storm of form and function, old and new, and every body likes a perfect storm.
New 'Great Gatsby' Trailer Highlights Soundtrack, Spectacular Visuals
11:56 AM 4/4/2013 by Jeff Giles
When Baz Luhrmann announced his plans to mount a new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby -- which, you may recall, had already been turned into a pretty good movie once or twice -- and do it in 3D, no less, it was hard not to wonder what had possessed him.
New 'Great Gatsby' Trailer Promises 3D Splendor in 2013
3:48 PM 12/20/2012 by Jeff Giles
Why, hello there, Leo. Welcome back to heartthrob mode.
If you rolled your eyes in derision when you heard the news that Baz Luhrmann was mounting a 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby, well, we understand -- Gatsby's been to the big screen before, and in any case, his silk-sheeted tragedy never seemed to be crying out for an added dimension.
The Great Gatsby
Posted November 21st, 2011 by Binh Ngo
"The Great Gatsby" follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Tobey Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings.
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