Short Cuts
Baz pitches the woo to the older ladies
Garry Maddox Gatsby a hit with older women; the AACTAs add TV awards while cutting seven others; Jason Clarke's star continues to rise.
$51.5m
Gatsby off to a strong start at US box office despite reviews
Garry Maddox While some film critics have been brutal, Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby has opened strongly in the US.
Mystery Road
Real-life killings collide with Weaving's reel life
Garry Maddox Echoes of two real-life killings surround the new Australian film Mystery Road.
Sydney Film Festival highlights
Ten festival films people will be talking about
Garry Maddox At any film festival, there are always sessions that get people talking. It could be a film on a controversial, heart-wrenching or confronting subject.
Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann: Dancing with devils and demons
Garry Maddox He's not dyslexic, but Baz can become exhausted trying to keep up with his own mind.
Short Cuts
Rocket to the top
Garry Maddox Could Australia score its first ever best foreeign picture nomination at next year's Oscars?
Festival launch
Sex sells at the Sydney Film Festival
Garry Maddox Perhaps inevitably for an event held in the dark, sex will be a major drawcard at next month's Sydney Film Festival.
From Bondi to fame, with a rocket
Garry Maddox Their first movie is yet to screen in Australia but already Bondi filmmakers Kim Mordaunt and Sylvia Wilczynski have made influential friends around the world.
Reviews
Is Baz's 'swirling, audacious' Gatsby actually all that great?
Garry Maddox Baz Luhrmann's trademark ability to polarise critics has continued with The Great Gatsby.
Gatsby
Rain delays, a big budget and the creative vision to make it great
Garry Maddox Having invested five years of his life in his first movie since Australia, director Baz Luhrmann has a lot at stake with The Great Gatsby.
It was a titanic effort from fearless Baz, says DiCaprio
Garry Maddox At the world premiere in New York, Leonardo DiCaprio had a firm view about how well director Baz Luhrmann has adapted the classic American novel The Great Gatsby for one of the year's most...
Baz's baby
Gatsby faithfuls flock to world premiere
Garry Maddox The first reviews have yet to land but Leonardo DiCaprio has a firm view about how well director Baz Luhrmann has adapted the classic American novel The Great Gatsby for one of Hollywood's most...
Craig Pearce
Strictly business for scribe as he awaits Gatsby premiere
Garry Maddox Just days from the world premiere of The Great Gatsby in New York, co-writer Craig Pearce is too busy thinking about William Shakespeare and Strictly Ballroom's spirited young dancers to be too...
Waiting for Gatsby
Hollywood gambles $100m on Baz's dazzling 3D extravaganza
Garry Maddox A tour of the set at Sydney's Fox Studios during production showed Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby will be nothing if not stylish.
The big break
Garry Maddox For Xavier Samuel, mother nature was the biggest challenge in filming surf adventure Drift.
Making a surf-film classic is the elusive break
Garry Maddox Blue Crush, Soul Surfer, Newcastle and now Drift … surf movies have just kept rolling out over the past decade.
Drift
Riding the wave
Garry Maddox For Xavier Samuel, nature was the biggest challenge of this surf adventure.
Drift
The crest is history
Garry Maddox Friends Myles Pollard and Sam Worthington stood firm to make the Australian surf film Drift.
The Other Son
Middle East fairy story a tale of faith tolerance
Garry Maddox The Other Son asks what happens when a Jew and a Palestinian discover they have been accidentally switched as babies during a Gulf War air raid.
