20 years ago today, Baz Luhrmann gave us a film that had the MTV generation quoting Elizabethan verse and literature teachers clutching their pearls. Romeo + Juliet was a bold reinterpretation of ...

The popular 1996 Shakespearean romance drama “Romeo + Juliet” recently turned 25, and its director, Baz Luhrmann, is sharing with TODAY how he feels about the movie a quarter century later.

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 ...

For never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Yet, Baz Luhrmann gave both literature lovers and cinema fans a new interpretation of what might very well be William ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can fans watch the tale of romance as old as time of young lovers, the Romeo + Juliet movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio on ...