Elvis (Movie)
‘Elvis’ vs. Elvis
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher The Baz Luhrmann biopic “Elvis” has been one of this summer’s box office success stories, demonstrating the ongoing appetite for stories about Elvis Presley, one of pop music’s dynamic and contentious figures, as well as the cinematic power of Luhrmann’s vivid, overwhelming style, which is optimized for […]
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Watch Austin Butler Cause Hysteria in ‘Elvis’
In the sequence, Elvis (Austin Butler) is giving one of his first performances in front of an audience while Col. Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), the man who would become his manager, watches on. While historically Elvis’s first big introduction was said to be at Sun Records, performing for its owner, Sam Phillips, the film takes […]
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The Best Actors to Play Elvis Onscreen
Kurt Russell had the hip swivel down cold. Val Kilmer nailed the sincere, soulful voice. And Michael Shannon … well, the credits identified him as Elvis Presley, so that was the character he must have been playing in “Elvis & Nixon,” right? Since the King’s death in 1977, at 42, more than a dozen actors […]
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‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life
As a Presley biography, “Elvis” is not especially illuminating. The basic stuff is all there, as it would be on Wikipedia. Elvis is haunted by the death of his twin brother, Jesse, and devoted to his mother, Gladys (Helen Thomson). Relations with his father, Vernon (Richard Roxburgh), are more complicated. The boy grows up poor […]
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Summer Movies 2022: ‘Jurassic World,’ ‘Thor’ and ‘Nope’
Here is a select list of noteworthy films scheduled this summer. Release dates and platforms are subject to change and reflect the latest information as of deadline. June AFTER BLUE (DIRTY PARADISE) The director Bertrand Mandico’s “The Wild Boys” found a small cult of fans. (In a 2018 review for The Times, Bilge Ebiri described […]
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He’s Playing Elvis Presley. But Who Is Austin Butler?
He sent the single-take recording to Luhrmann. Within days, Butler, who lives in Los Angeles, had been summoned to the director’s home in New York. “From the moment he walked in, he was soulful, spiritual, kind — just brilliant,” Luhrmann said. Butler still didn’t quite have the part. That changed after Luhrmann asked him to […]
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Baz Luhrmann Is Ready for Rhinestones, Cadillacs, Dr. Feelgood and a Svengali
There are stressful moments, as with “Moulin Rouge!”, when Mr. Luhrmann and Ms. Martin found a fax someone accidentally left in the machine with an urgent plea to the studio to come and take over because “Baz is out of control.” But if it isn’t impossibly difficult to birth, it isn’t Baz-y. C.M., as Ms. […]
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