Elvis

10 Essential Elvis Presley Movies

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10 Essential Elvis Presley Movies

Austin Butler, the star of Baz Luhrmann’s all-shook-up biopic Elvis, joins an eclectic list of men who would be King. Among them: Don Johnson (Elvis and the Beauty Queen), Kurt Russell (John Carpenter’s Elvis), Bruce Campbell (Bubba Ho-Tep), and Nicolas Cage (Tiny Elvis, SNL). But there is nothing like the real King. Elvis Presley made … Read more

‘Elvis’ Is Utterly Disorienting. That’s the Point.

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'Elvis' Is Utterly Disorienting. That’s the Point.

Baz Luhrmann is a filmmaker who picks subjects as extravagant as the genre allows. When he made a teen romance, it was William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. His musical Moulin Rouge was scored with love songs from nearly every pop era. For a literary adaptation, he went with the totemic, supposedly unadaptable The Great Gatsby. … Read more