Australia

Haven’t been to any movies since starting this blog so no reviews or stories about film experiences yet but here is something I think a lot of people will enjoy to hear about. Baz Luhrmann, the man who changed the world of cinema in 2001 with his masterpiece, Moulin Rouge, is coming off of his 7 year long feature film hiatus with his new cowboy epic, Australia. It is starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and takes place in the Australian outback during the bombing of Darwin, Australia by the Japanese.

Filming began last April and finished up in December and the movie has a tentative release date of November 14, 2008. Baz is using a lot of his usual crew from his movies including the same Art Director from Moulin Rouge and Romeo+Juliet.

Where AFI is the American Film Institute (not an emo band)

This was Adam’s idea really.

When I choose a movie, I have two conflicting guys inside me…one is Fanboy; he likes loud geeky movies about things like superheroes and monsters and wizards. They are usually creating a lot of internet buzz after ComiCon and although the movies he chooses are sometimes amazing (Yay 300!), for the most part they are underwhelming.
Then there is Cinesnob; he likes arty, important movies that are not, by definition, entertaining. He likes his flicks thought provoking, symbolic…and always having something to say. His choices are usually in line with snobby Oscar critics and he can bore your for an hour on the merits of the focus technique of Citizen Kane.

Fanboy is more fun at parties.

And if you read his post on TEB last night, you would see that we both satisfied our snobs last night with some Daniel Day-Lewis action and then followed that by the decision to make this blog.

So there’s the story, who knows if anyone will be able to read through our movie-nerdiness but at least we’ll get to talk to each other and anyone else who cares through this place.