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
ROME (AP) — Film director Paul Haggis was detained on Sunday for investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, Italian news media said, quoting local prosecutors. The Canadian-born, Oscar-winning Haggis, 69, has been in Italy for a film festival that begins on Tuesday in Ostuni, a tourist town in Puglia, … Read more
Ewan McGregor, Hayden ChristensenPhoto: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney A lot of Star Wars opinions seem straightforward—the originals are “good,” the prequels are “bad,” the sequels are “disastrous, except for The Last Jedi which is perfect in every way”—but there’s actually more nuance in there than the average person might expect. Some people, for example, … Read more