Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film
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.
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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.
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#2
Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:50amI was most surprised by Hugh Jackman not looking like Hugh Jackman.
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#3
Posted: 7/16/08 at 8:52amThat picture feels very Gone with the Windish
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#4
Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:35amHe looks like he's checking her armpits for lumps.
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:)
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#6
Posted: 7/16/08 at 10:58amYou haven't been to a middle school dance lately, have you :-P
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#7
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:24amHaha nope, can't say I have
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#8
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:30amThis makes me kinda wanna re-watch THE THORN BIRDS...how hot would Jackman be as Father Ralph?
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#9
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:30amAfter going back to help DJ one... man how times have changed.
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#10
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:33amDoesn't even look like Nicole or Hugh. I would've guessed Naomi Watts.
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re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#11
Posted: 7/18/08 at 2:00pmAfter seeing this trailer, I'm convinced Hugh is a 'mo.
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re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#13
Posted: 7/28/08 at 9:17amNicole 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?
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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
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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!
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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/
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re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#18
Posted: 8/1/08 at 10:01am

From Entertainment Weekly "First Look":
EW First Look
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.
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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!
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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'
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#23
Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:46pmYeah, 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...
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#24
Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:50pmYes, yes they are all in on it, can't you see that fan2? And now they've sucked you in too!
re: Australia- A Baz Luhrmann Film#25
Posted: 8/20/08 at 8:59pmThe funniest thread of the day.
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