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No need to link to his filmography, here's everything he's made:
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Australia (2008)
Rules
No need to link to his filmography, here's everything he's made:
Strictly Ballroom (1992)
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Australia (2008)
Strictly Ballroom (1993) [6]
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) [4]
Moulin Rouge! (2001) [7]
Australia (2008) [7]
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Strictly Ballroom - 7.5
Romeo + Juliet - 8.5
Moulin Rouge! - 9.5
Romero + Juliet (1996) 6.0
Moulin Rouge! (2001) 5.0
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
Romeo + Juliet - 5.5
Moulin Rouge! - 4.0
Strictly Ballroom - 7.5
Romeo + Juliet - 8.5
Moulin Rouge! - 10
TV Recently Finished:
Catastrophe: Season 1 (2015) A
Rectify: Season 3 (2015) A-
Bojack Horseman: Season 2 (2015) A
True Detective: Season 2 (2015) A-
Wayward Pines: Season 1 (2015) B
Currently Playing: Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise (replay) (XB1) / Contradiction (PC)
Recently Finished: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4) A+ / Life is Strange: Ep 4 (PS4) A / Bastion (replay) (PS4) B+
Romeo + Juliet - 2.5
Moulin Rouge - 1.5
Fuck this guy.
Coming to America (Landis, 1988) **
The Beach Bum (Korine, 2019) *1/2
Us (Peele, 2019) ***1/2
Fugue (Smoczynska, 2018) ***1/2
Prisoners (Villeneuve, 2013) ***1/2
Shadow (Zhang, 2018) ***
Oslo, August 31st (J. Trier, 2011) ****
Climax (Noé, 2018) **1/2
Fighting With My Family (Merchant, 2019) **
Upstream Color (Carruth, 2013) ***
Romeo + Julet - 7.5
Moulin Rouge - 9.5
Not really sure if I've ever watched all of Strictly Ballroom and no real interest in seeing Australia anytime soon. I'd like for him to do more, though.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Moulin Rouge - 4.5
The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer 13) - A
Stranger by the Lake (Giraudie 12) - B
American Hustle (Russell 13) - C+
The Wolf of Wall Street (Scorsese 13) - C+
Passion (De Palma 12) - B
Strictly Ballroom (1992) - 7
Romeo + Juliet (1996) - 6
Moulin Rouge! (2001) - 8
Australia (2008) - 4
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Strictly Ballroom - 3
Romeo + Juliet - 4
Moulin Rouge! - 7.5
Australia - 3
I should love him, but god do I not.
Moulin Rouge - 4
Strictly Ballroom (1992) - 7
Romeo + Juliet (1996) - 8
Moulin Rouge! (2001) - 9
Australia (2008) - 2
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It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Strictly Ballroom - 3.5
Moulin Rouge - 6.5
Australia - 2.5
[****]
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
[***]
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Moulin Rouge is phenomenal filmmaking -- genuine, thrilling, go-for-broke, heart-on-the-sleeve stuff. I wish more filmmakers would throw themselves out there like that.
Romeo and Juliet is overblown, but I like it too. Luhrmann has a knack for finding real emotion in pop culture, and for working with actors.
I would have loved to see his Alexander the Great movie.
Romeo + Juliet - 7
Moulin Rouge! - 7
Australia - 8
Strictly Ballroom (1992) - 8.5
Romeo + Juliet (1996) - 8
Moulin Rouge! (2001) - 9.5
Australia (2008) - 4
Clearly, a polarizing filmmaker. I was a closet movie nerd in high school, and Strictly Ballroom was one of my first forays into non-mainstream and non-American films--the fact that it's message is about embracing the non-traditional was just a bonus.
Also, I think Moulin Rouge! is as emblematic and indicative of a post-modern generation as The Matrix.
Strictly Ballroom 7.5
Romeo + Juliet 5
Moulin Rouge! 3
...and the milk's in me.
Strictly Ballroom (1992) - 5
Moulin Rouge! (2001) - 6
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+