Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film

[I<3bway]

Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#1

Posted: 7/16/08 at 2:40am

I'm excited to see what Baz has in store for his next film. I saw the trailer for the movie when I went to go see Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

[DG]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#2

Posted: 7/16/08 at 2:44am

Interested by the project - and anything with Hugh automatically gets my attention - but I was distracted (again!) by Ms. Kidman's inability to move her face!

It looks very 'grand and epic', and those don't come along very often anymore.

I just hope the 'grandness' is backed up by some substance - which also doesn't happen very often anymore.

[keen on kean]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#2

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:50am

I was most surprised by Hugh Jackman not looking like Hugh Jackman.

[zepka102]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#3

Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:52am

That picture feels very Gone with the Windish

::bust a move::

[Borstalboy]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#4

Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:35am

He looks like he's checking her armpits for lumps.

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[ExceedinglyPeculiar2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#5

Posted: 7/16/08 at 10:56am

They're as far apart from each other as 2 kids at a middle school dance.

Regardless, I'm still excited for it:)

"My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." -- David Mamet on Jeremy Piven's early departure from the cast of Broadway's 'Speed-the-Plow'

[zepka102]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#6

Posted: 7/16/08 at 10:58am

You haven't been to a middle school dance lately, have you :-P

::bust a move::

[ExceedinglyPeculiar2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#7

Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:24am

Haha nope, can't say I have

"My understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer." -- David Mamet on Jeremy Piven's early departure from the cast of Broadway's 'Speed-the-Plow'

[Borstalboy]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#8

Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:30am

This makes me kinda wanna re-watch THE THORN BIRDS...how hot would Jackman be as Father Ralph?

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[zepka102]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#9

Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:30am

After going back to help DJ one... man how times have changed.

::bust a move::

[StageManager2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#10

Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:33am

Doesn't even look like Nicole or Hugh. I would've guessed Naomi Watts.

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[lildogs]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#11

Posted: 7/18/08 at 2:00pm

After seeing this trailer, I'm convinced Hugh is a 'mo.

[Fan2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#12

Posted: 7/27/08 at 8:39pm

How about this one?

[alterego]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#13

Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:17am

Nicole Kidman is coming back to Oz shortly to reshoot some scenes. Hmmm, doesn't that usually mean there are some problems? Why do I sense another Baz Luhrman wank-a-thon?

[Fan2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#14

Posted: 7/28/08 at 2:20pm

Not necessarily - "reshoots" are sometime done to re-do a few scenes maybe where the sound quality was bad, or they need to add something to spice it up a bit, or they noticed something that had to be changed or fixed. Hugh is going back also which explains why he hasn't shaved yet. Plus Nicole had morning sickness a lot (according to Hugh) in the last month of filming so that might have something to do with it. I think these reshoots had been scheduled for a while. Many films do reshoots or pickups - they happened for Moulin Rouge and even for Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Doesn't necessarily mean anything.

There was a test screening recently which received generally very positive reviews so perhaps they are addressing some of the stuff from that also.




Updated On: 7/28/08 at 02:20 PM

[fvalle24]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#15

Posted: 7/28/08 at 4:57pm

I am a HUGE Baz Luhrmann Fan! Is anyone subcribed to the Podcast on iTunes!?

I wish I could go back and catch his version of La Boheme!

[Fan2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#16

Posted: 7/28/08 at 6:46pm

But of course! Link to Podcasts:

http://www.apple.com/education/settoscreen/

[Fan2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#18

Posted: 8/1/08 at 10:01am

From Entertainment Weekly "First Look":
EW First Look

[best12bars]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#19

Posted: 8/1/08 at 10:07am

After watching the trailer, it looks like they have everything but a story.

I hope this isn't an "all style, no content" movie.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[jo]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#20

Posted: 8/1/08 at 11:34am

Three people who saw the test screening gave very good feedback on the movie ( Check out the movie site Ain't It Cool News for 2 of those reviews) - on the story ( an epic romantic drama partly set in the Australian outback and moves on to the bombing of Darwin in the second world war), the film-making, and the acting performances. Many of the Oscar prediction sites include this forthcoming movie among the possible contenders for the coming award season.

I am very much looking forward to it!

[Fan2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#21

Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:13pm

Hi-quality photos - here's one.

http://themovingpicture.net/high-quality-australia-posters

Bunch more:


New Pics and Posters from the Must See Flick, 'Australia'

[alterego]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#22

Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:34pm

best12bars, all Luhrmans films are "all style, no content", and the style usually isn't very good. I smell a bomb. Does the world at large want to see a film called AUSTRALIA?

Now, here's an off topic, topic. There is a rumour going around here (in Oz) that Nicole Kidman was never pregnant - she wore a padded stomach and then adopted. Hmmm.

[Fan2]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#23

Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:46pm

Yeah, that's why she dropped out of "The Reader" in January and Hugh lied when he gave an interview saying she had terrible morning sickness in the last month of filming last December and wasn't riding horses anymore. Even an UK journalist, who was on the set in the last month of filming, guessed that she was pregnant because of his observation of her. But it was all an elaborate hoax.. please...

[alterego]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#24

Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:50pm

Yes, yes they are all in on it, can't you see that fan2? And now they've sucked you in too!

[gettinhep]

re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#25

Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:59pm

The funniest thread of the day.

'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt