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Can fans watch the tale of romance as old as time of young lovers, the Romeo + Juliet movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio on ...
When compared to Baz ... version of Romeo And Juliet. Here, the many pleasures include Michael York's fantastic cheekbones as Tybalt, a cherubic Bruce Robinson as Benvolio, and a plethora of ...
In the world of filmmaking, being Baz Luhrmann ... to dance, Romeo + Juliet to poetry, and Moulin Rouge! to music. The arts are intertwined and can't work without each other, which Luhrmann ...
There’s probably never been a time as ripe with “Romeo and Juliet” rip-offs as our contemporary era. Though it’s been 29 years since Baz Luhrmann’s modern, alternative-pop-scored ...
Romeo + Juliet' is simply stupendous. Baz Luhrmann's confronting ... and Romeo's friend Benvolio (Dash Mihok). But it's Romeo's closest friend Mercutio (Harold Perrineau) who organises Romeo's ...
Truly, though, nothing prepared me for Mr. Gold’s “Romeo + Juliet,” which opened on Broadway this week. Another auteur not known for subtlety, Baz Luhrmann ... thrust his crotch against the back of ...
Love him or hate him, there’s no denying Baz Luhrmann has ... on William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. Now, 30 years after the premiere of his first film, Luhrmann returns with the musical ...
The umpteenth attempt to make Shakespeare 'cool' exchanges the original, classic language for forgettable pop songs and unnecessary twists ...
OK, director Sam Gold’s, nntz-nntz, party-hardy production of William Shakespeare’s tragedy is actually called “Romeo + Juliet,” swiping the youthful “+” from Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 ...
I’m a writer for The Upshot at The New York Times, mostly covering gender, family and young people. I find my beat so fascinating that what I watch or read often ends up relating to it. Here are five ...
The critical reaction was mixed. America’s pre-eminent film critic, Roger Ebert, gave it two out of four stars, lamenting “the desperation with which it tries to 'update' the play and make it ...