Baz Luhrmann, arguably the man who brought musicals back to the mainstream with 2001's Moulin Rouge, is going back to the genre, this time on a series, with Netflix's The Get Down, a 70s Bronx hip-hop musical. The show recently got its first full trailer -- and the filmmaker is obviously still very much a master in the period musical genre! Read More »
Baz Luhrmann, best known for his flashy directing style in films like 'Moulin Rouge!' and 'The Great Gatsby,' teamed up with Netflix for 'The Get Down,' a 1970's-period musical drama. The trailer shows something between Spike Lee's 'Do the Ring Thing' and 'Dreamgirls' as it releases the 70s back into today. Read More »
Barneys New York, the luxury specialty retailer, announced recently the 2014 Holiday campaign: BAZ DAZZLED Holiday; a collaboration with world renowned writer/director/producer Baz Luhrmann and his wife, costume designer and collaborator Catherine Martin. Supermodel, Gisele Bündchen, sat down with Baz Luhrmann to chat about his "Baz Dazzled" window displays for Barneys. Read More »
Barneys New York, the luxury specialty retailer, announced recently the 2014 Holiday campaign: BAZ DAZZLED Holiday; a collaboration with world renowned writer/director/producer Baz Luhrmann and his wife, costume designer and collaborator Catherine Martin. Each year, Barneys taps someone famous to collaborate on a campaign and limited edition collection for the holidays. The Baz Dazzled Holiday collection, which follows collabs with Lady Gaga, Disney and Jay Z, hit select Barneys locations and Barneys.com on Thursday Nov. 13. In a city where each department store is trying to outshine the competition, the holidays are all about making things big and bright - which happens to be Luhrmann and Martin's specialty, as they proved at Thursday night's unveiling. Read More »
Barneys New York, luxury specialty retailer, announced recently its 2014 Holiday campaign: BAZ DAZZLED Holiday; a collaboration with world renowned writer/director/producer Baz Luhrmann and his wife, costume designer and collaborator Catherine Martin. Each year, Barneys taps someone famous to collaborate on a campaign and limited edition collection for the holidays. The Baz Dazzled Holiday collection, which follows collabs with Lady Gaga, Disney and Jay-Z, is set to hit select Barneys locations and Barneys.com on Thursday Nov. 13. Read More »
Last night, Oct. 13, Chanel invited its loyal supporters and ambassadors to a gorgeous candlelit dinner/cocktail party to celebrate the icon that is Chanel No. 5. According to Marie Claire, Gisele Bündchen, Lily Allen, Gigi Hadid and more joined Karl Lagerfeld at a gallery space in New York weeks after his feminist rally to preview "The One that I Want," a short film campaign directed by Baz Luhrmann. Read More »
On last night's episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen dedicated the whole show to The Great Gatsby. Turning his show into a book club-type episode, Stephen decided to take on The Great Gatsby. The episode involved interviews with the film's director Baz Luhrmann and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan. What we quickly learned at the start of the show is that Stephen did not come prepared for his discussion of The Great Gatsby. Read More »
The xx and Sia have released their contributions to the much buzzed about The Great Gatsby soundtrack. The Baz Luhrmann film is getting a lot of press surrounding it's Jay-Z produced soundtrack which will include a cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" by Beyonce and Andre 3000 as well as new music by acts like Florence + The Machine. Tracks from the album have been steadily rolling out over the last several weeks and today, we have a twofer with The xx dropping "Together" and Sia's deceptively titled "Kill and Run." Read More »