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Hollywood Elsewhere: 'Nother One
:: The Playlist ::: Reviews On 'Australia' From Down Under Range From Mostly Positive To Mixed
Fataculture: Reviews Of ‘Australia’ From Down Under Range From Mostly Positive To Mixed
Cinematical: Early Buzz: 'Australia' and 'Revolutionary Road' Are Big Winners
'Nother One
Hollywood Elsewhere —
'Nother One Baz Luhrmann 's long-awaited and over-budget Australia manages, against the odds, to avoid turning into one big sunburnt stereotype about Godzone country," writes the Times Online 's Anne Barrowlcough . "Instead, in what turns out to be a multi-layered story, it describes an Australia of the 1940s that is at once compellingly beautiful and breathtakingly cruel . "Described as a cross between Gone with the Wind and Out of Africa it bears, in fact, little resemblance to either movie - apart from a similarly spectacular landscape as Out of Africa and a plot ...
Reviews On 'Australia' From Down Under Range From Mostly Positive To Mixed
:: The Playlist :: —
... "Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited and over-budget Australia manages, against the odds, to avoid turning into one big sunburnt stereotype about Godzone country," Anne Barrowlcough writes for the Times Online. "Instead, in what turns out to be a multi-layered story, it describes an Australia of the 1940s that is at once compellingly beautiful and breathtakingly cruel." ...
Reviews Of ‘Australia’ From Down Under Range From Mostly Positive To Mixed
Fataculture —
... . The Aussies seem to be defensive about the director fucking up a historical story about their country for the rest of the world, but skepticism aside it seems like he mostly achieved this. The good :“Baz Luhrmann’s long-awaited and over-budget Australia manages, against the odds, to avoid turning into one big sunburnt stereotype about Godzone country,” Anne Barrowlcough writes for the Times Online . “Instead, in what turns out to be a multi-layered story, it describes an Australia of the 1940s that is at once compellingly beautiful and breathtakingly cruel.” “Described as a ...
Early Buzz: 'Australia' and 'Revolutionary Road' Are Big Winners
Cinematical —
... has published one of the first reviews of Baz Lurhman's Australia -- starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman -- saying it "features some of the most beautiful photography ever seen in an Australian film, from the Bungle Bungles in the Kimberley to the Northern Territory in the midst of the wet season," and that the film "has international blockbuster written all over it." Over at the Times Online UK, they've given the flick four out of five stars, and claim "Baz Luhrmann's long-awaited, and over-budget epic Australia manages, against the odds, to ...
More Thumbs Up 'Australia' Reviews
:: The Playlist :: —
Just in case people don't accuse us of being haters (like one clown did the other day), or at least focusing on the negative, here's two more positive reviews for Baz Luhrmann's "Australia." This will teach people in the comments section to write off a film after two mixed reviews have been published (c'mon now, have some patience). The Times Online U.K. gives it four stars. And the Herald Sun down under says it's "a winner" a film "with a message, but... no shortage of thrills." ...
“Australia” Reviews
FilmoFilia —
... “Baz Luhrmann’s long-awaited, and over-budget epic Australia manages, against the odds, to avoid turning into one big sunburnt stereotype about Godzone country. Instead, in what turns out to be a multi-layered story it describes an Australia of the 1940s that is at once compellingly, beautiful and breathtakingly cruel.” (Anne Barrowlcough, The Times online) full story ...
David Cox: Good on yer, Australia
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk —
... that Luhrmann's film has attracted, many who've seen it have found it oddly compelling. Could it, after all, perhaps have something to tell us? ...
