Baz Luhrmann: MOULIN ROUGE (2001, 128M) the Version of This Goldenrod Handout Sent out in Our Monday Mailing, and the One Online, Has Hot Links
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December 3: 2019 (XXXIX: 15) Baz Luhrmann: MOULIN ROUGE (2001, 128m) The version of this Goldenrod Handout sent out in our Monday mailing, and the one online, has hot links. Spelling and Style—use of italics, quotation marks or nothing at all for titles, e.g.—follows the form of the sources. DIRECTOR Baz Luhrmann WRITING Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce PRODUCERS Fred Baron Martin Brown Baz Luhrmann MUSIC Craig Armstrong CINEMATOGRAPHY Donald McAlpine EDITING Jill Bilcock In 2002, the film won Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration and Best Costume Design and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Nicole Kidman), Best Cinematography (Donald McAlpine), Best Film Editing (Jill Bilcock), Best Makeup, and Best Sound. In 2001, it was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. theatre, music, and recording industries. On the screen he is CAST best known for his Red Curtain Trilogy, comprising his Nicole Kidman...Satine (based on Jane Avril) romantic comedy film Strictly Ballroom** (1992), for Ewan McGregor...Christian which he won the Award of the Youth at Cannes, the Jim Broadbent...Harold Zidler romantic tragedy William Shakespeare's Romeo + Richard Roxburgh...The Duke of Monroth Juliet*** (1996), and Moulin Rouge!**** (2001), for John Leguizamo...Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec which he was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and the Jacek Koman...The Narcoleptic Argentinean Palm d’Or. Following the trilogy, projects included Caroline O'Connor...Nini Australia**** (2008), The Great Gatsby** (2013), and his Kerry Walker...Marie television period drama The Get Down for Netflix. Lara Mulcahy...Môme Fromage Luhrmann is equally known for his Grammy-nominated Garry McDonald...The Doctor soundtracks for Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby, as Matt Whittet...Satie well as his record label House of Iona, a co-venture with Keith Robinson...Le Pétomane RCA Records. Serving as producer on all of his musical David Wenham...Audrey soundtracks, he also holds writing credits on many of the Kiruna Stamell...La Petite Princesse individual tracks. His album Something For Everybody DeObia Oparei...Le Chocolat features music from many of his films and also includes his Kylie Minogue...The Green Fairy hit "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)". Luhrmann's Peter Whitford...The Stage Manager influence has extended outside the traditional realm of Linal Haft...Warner media and entertainment. Luhrmann works closely with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Anna Wintour Costume BAZ LUHRMANN (b. September 17, 1962 in New South Center, having chaired its famous annual gala. He has also Wales, Australia) is an Australian writer (15 credits), directed these shorts: Chanel N°5: The Film***** (2004), director (18 credits), and producer (8 credits) with projects Waist Up/Waist Down (2012), Ugly Chic* (2012), The spanning film directing (18 credits), television, opera, Surreal Body* (2012), The Exotic Body* (2012), The Lurhmann—MOULIN ROUGE—2 Classical Body* (2012), Schiaparelli & Prada: Impossible JILL BILCOCK (b. 1948 in Melbourne, Victoria, Conversations (2012), Naïf Chic* (2012), and Hard Chic* Australia) is an Australian film editor (40 credits), (2012). nominated for an Oscar for her work on Moulin Rouge! *Writer (2001). These are some other films she has worked on: **Writer and Music Strikebound (1984), A Cry in the Dark (1988), Till There ***Writer and Producer Was You (1991), Erotique (1994), How to Make an ****Writer, Music, and Producer American Quilt (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Head On *****Producer (1998), Elizabeth (1998), The Dish (2000), Road to Perdition (2002), The Libertine (2004), Elizabeth: The CRAIG ARMSTRONG (b. April 29, 1959 in Glasgow, Golden Age (2007), The Young Victoria (2009), Don't Be Scotland, UK) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral Afraid of the Dark (2010), Red Dog (2011), Mental (2012), music, electronica and film scores. He graduated from the My Mistress (2014), The Dressmaker (2015), and Ride Like Royal Academy of Music in 1981, and has since written a Girl (2019). music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. These are some of the films he has composed for: Orphans (1998), Best Laid Plans (1999), The Bone Collector (1999), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Kiss of the Dragon (2001), The Quiet American (2002), Hide & Seek (Vogue) (2003), Love Actually (2003), Chanel N°5: The Film (Short) (2004), Fever Pitch (2005), Must Love Dogs (2005), World Trade Center (2006), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Neds (2010), In Time (2011), The Untold History of the United States (TV Series documentary) (2012-13), The Great Gatsby (2013), Far from the Madding Crowd (2015), Victor Frankenstein (2015), Snowden (2016), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), Mrs. Lowry and Son (2019), The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019), and Dirt NICOLE KIDMAN (b. June 20, 1967 in Honolulu, Music (2019). Hawaii) is an Australian and American actress (84 credits) and producer (8 credits). She began her acting career in DONALD McALPINE (Born: 1934 in Quandialla, New Australia with the 1983 films Bush Christmas and BMX South Wales, Australia) is an Australian cinematographer Bandits. In 1990, she made her Hollywood debut in the (66 credits) who began his career in the late 1960s and was racing film Days of Thunder, opposite Tom Cruise. She nominated for an Oscar for his work on Moulin Rouge! went on to achieve wider recognition with leading roles in (2001). These are some of the other films he has worked Far and Away (1992), Batman Forever (1995), To Die For on: Leonard French's Stained Glass Screens (Short) (1995), and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). She received two (1969), Or Forever Hold Your Peace (1970), The consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), Gentle Strangers Actress for playing a courtesan in the musical Moulin (1972), The Getting of Wisdom (1977), My Brilliant Career Rouge! (2001) and the writer Virginia Woolf in the drama (1979), Breaker Morant (1980), The Club (1980), Puberty film The Hours (2002). In 2012, she received her first Blues (1981), Now and Forever (1983), Blue Skies Again Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead (1983), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Down and Out in Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her role in the HBO Beverly Hills (1986), Predator (1987), Orphans (1987), film Hemingway & Gellhorn and returned to television in Moon Over Parador (1988), Stanley & Iris (1990), The 2017, co-producing and starring in the HBO drama series Hard Way (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire Big Little Lies, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Nine Months Outstanding Lead Actress as well as Outstanding Limited (1995), Romeo + Juliet (1996), The Time Machine (2002), Series. These are some of the other films she has acted in: Anger Management (2003), Peter Pan (2003), The Wills & Burke (1985), Windrider (1986), Emerald City Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the (1988), Billy Bathgate (1991), Malice (1993), The Portrait Wardrobe (2005), Main Street (2010), The Dressmaker of a Lady (1996), The Peacemaker (1997), Panic Room (2015), Kapoor & Sons (2016), and Ali's Wedding (2017). (2002), Dogville (2003), The Human Stain (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), The Stepford Wives (2004), The Interpreter (2005), Bewitched (2005), Fur: An Imaginary Lurhmann—MOULIN ROUGE—3 Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006), The Golden Compass Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). He joined the cast of the (2007), Australia (2008), Rabbit Hole (2010), Just Go with television series Game of Thrones, playing a role of It (2011), Stoker (2013), Grace of Monaco (2014), Archmaester Ebrose, in the seventh season (2017). These Paddington (2014), Strangerland (2015), Secret in Their are some of his other appearances in film and television: Eyes (2015), The Guardian Brothers (2016), The Killing of The Go-Between (1971), The Shout (1978), The Life Story a Sacred Deer (2017), Top of the Lake (TV Series) (2017), of Baal (1978), The Passage (1979), Breaking Glass The Beguiled (2017), The Upside (2017), Destroyer (2018), (1980), The Dogs of War (1980), Time Bandits (1981), The Boy Erased (2018), and Aquaman (2018). Hit (1984), Brazil (1985), The Good Father (1985), Silas Marner (TV Movie) (1985), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Vroom (1988), Life Is Sweet (1990), The Crying Game (1992), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Widows' Peak (1994), Richard III (1995), The Secret Agent (1996), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), The Avengers (1998), Topsy-Turvy (1999), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Gangs of New York (2002), Nicholas Nickleby (2002), Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Vanity Fair (2004), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), The Young Victoria (2009), Perrier's Bounty (2009), Another Year (2010), The EWAN McGREGOR (b. March 31, 1971 in Perth, Iron Lady (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012), Closed Circuit Perthshire, Scotland, UK) is a Scottish film actor (85 (2013), The Harry Hill Movie (2013), Paddington (2014), credits) who also directed and starred in the 2016 film Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods (2014), Get Santa adaptation of Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1997 (2014), Brooklyn (2015), The Weather Inside (2015), The novel American Pastoral. Some of his best-known roles Legend of Tarzan (2016), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016), The include heroin addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996), Sense of an Ending (2017), Black '47 (2018), and King of Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999– Thieves (2018). 2005), poet Christian in Moulin Rouge! (2001), Edward Bloom in Big Fish (2003), and James Joyce in Nora RICHARD ROXBURGH (b. January 23, 1962 in Albury, (2000), which he co-produced.