Resources for critically responding to Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy

If you haven't watched Moulin Rouge for the second or even third time by now, it's really urgent that you do.  This week you will receive the assignment for 3.9, and by next week you will be watching (in your own time) an additional Baz Luhrmann film so you can explore the idea of Baz Luhrmann as an auteur through close analysis and critical response to two scenes (one in each of two Luhrmann films).

The folder on Moulin Rouge which I have shared with you via google drive has lots of additional material to help you make sense of the idea and examples of auteur theory.  I've also put some links up here, with a comment on which texts are more difficult and which are great beginners texts.

This video (click on the image) is a great starting place to understand the concept of auteur theory.

Picspammy's blog post, a quick and visual summary of Five Themes in Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy is very accessible.

Cinema Fanatic has written a positive and easily read review of Luhrmann's Red Curtain films and Australia. Her awareness of the techniques which make the films so wonderful for her (she does gush a little), make it another good place to start.

The first part of Rebecca Coyle's article on Baz Luhrmann's Eclectic Musical Signature in the Red Curtain Trilogy may be off putting in terms of complex sentences and vocabulary, but the charts and the discussion of the films following the introduction are less difficult to read, and very very useful for the upcoming assignment.

Reel Club has a short blog post exploring narrative in the Red Curtain Trilogy films.

Have you watched Moulin Rouge again?  If you haven't, it's urgent!  You have to have formed your own critical response to the film, with supporting evidence, in order to make sense of reading about someone else's critical response.