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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 ...
I’m a writer for The Upshot at The New York Times, mostly covering gender, family and young people. I find my beat so ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Warner actually played Benvolio, Romeo’s cousin ... Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes starred in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet.Credit: Alamy Evans realised that the casting of Warner ...
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 ...
The best way to appreciate “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann’s ... is simply to surrender to it. Luhrmann, best known for such kaleidoscopic fantasias as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge!,” ...
Thoughts, prayers and No Fear Shakespeares for X’s bigoted troll community today, who—mere days after finding out that Romeo and Juliet is neither based in fact nor written by Baz Luhrmann ...
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 ...