Elvis movie

Baz Luhrmann's over-the-top biopic "Elvis" draws mixed to negative reviews after its premiere this week at Cannes Film Festival.

"I could feel how much work Baz and Austin put into trying to get it right," said Keough, who is at Cannes with her own movie and directorial debut, "War Pony," a story about Lakota Indians that she co-wrote and produced. Constructed mostly from performance footage and vintage clips, the film eschews the "talking heads" commentary typical of most music documentaries and reportedly focuses on the music rather than digging into the controversial aspects of Lewis' offstage life. According to The Times of London, the result features "dizzying" amounts of archival material "but is otherwise devoid of argument or even curiosity." There’s a lot of family trauma and generational trauma that started around then for our family.” "The story, as we all know, does not have a happy ending. "He would have absolutely loved it as well... Owen Gleiberman in Variety writes that Luhrmann has delivered "a fizzy, delirious, impishly energized, compulsively watchable 2-hour-and-39-minute fever dream — a spangly pinwheel of a movie." "Let me tell you that it is nothing short of spectacular. "I've seen Baz Luhrmann's movie 'Elvis' twice now," Lisa Marie wrote. Most reviews after the Cannes premiere were mixed-trending-toward-positive, with Butler generally receiving praise for his "star-making" (Vanity Fair) performance. Austin Butler channeled and embodied my father’s heart & soul beautifully." "Deliriously Awful Biopic Is ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ at 4,000 M.P.H.," is the headline on David Ehrlich's review on the IndieWire website.

Elvis Presley's daughter, granddaughter, and ex wife are praising the new Baz Luhrmann movie, “Elvis,” movie very publicly. I'm sure they really love it, ...

Graceland was closed for two months in 2020, and is only operating at limited capacity because of the pandemic. A new generation has not been forthcoming, a la the Beatles or Rolling Stones. Elvis is thought of as a 50s act, or a Vegas performer. According to Music Connect,yeat to date sales of all Elvis records including streaming comes to just 1.4 million. Elvis record sales are in the toilet. The whole world of Elvis, once a financial powerhouse, needs a supercharge to get it going again. Elvis Presley’s daughter, granddaughter, and ex wife are praising the new Baz Luhrmann movie, “Elvis,” movie very publicly.

This week, the second Baz Luhrmann trailer for the new Elvis movie dropped to much fanfare. In addition to giving fans a glimpse into Austin Butler's ...

Thank you [Baz] for setting the record straight in such a deeply profound and artistic way." Great news: the full lineup for the Elvis soundtrack has already been revealed. This week, the second Baz Luhrmann trailer for the new Elvis movie dropped to much fanfare. Elvis is a biographical musical film directed by Baz, of Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby fame. In the clip, fans are treated to Austin's dancing on stage while a voiceover says, "Our country itself is sick and it's lost its sense of direction, even its common decency." Priscilla, who was Elvis' ex-wife by the time he passed, told her Instagram followers earlier this month that she had already watched the film "over a dozen times."

It is fitting that maximalist filmmaker Baz Luhrman is making his return to theaters after almost a decade with a movie about one of the most maximalist ...

Indeed, What makes "Elvis" different than many musical biopics is that there is no promise of a comeback after the inevitable fall of the star, no return to the stage after rehab. But the best decision Luhrmann makes is to use the film's editing to reflect Elvis' love of comic books. This is a rather odd choice, not because the idea of an Elvis movie framed from the villain of the story is an inherently bad idea, but because the film can't fully decide if Parker is truly a villain or not. Rather than Elvis having to think about his entire life before playing on stage, the movie starts with a dying Colonel telling the story of his relationship with Elvis and the many "misconceptions" about their work and life. When he first hears Elvis on the radio, Parker laments that no white audience will accept his carnival act if it has a Black performer, then the camera pulls a dramatic Spielberg-like zoom on Kodi Smit-McPhee's face as he says that Elvis is white actually. It is fitting that maximalist filmmaker Baz Luhrman is making his return to theaters after almost a decade with a movie about one of the most maximalist performers in American history.

Priscilla Presley, 77, was left teary-eyed after the forthcoming biopic Elvis received a 12-minute standing ovation at Cannes Festival, which is the most ...

Austin captured that so beautifully,” she said. Halfway through the film, Jerry and I looked at each other and said WOW!!! Bravo to him…he knew he had big shoes to fill,” she wrote. Austin Butler, who played Elvis, is outstanding.