The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013)

'Star Trek Into Darkness' wings in at No. 1 but not at warp speed

2013-05-19 09:43:00

"Star Trek Into Darkness" opened atop the U.S. box office, though its debut didn't quite make the jump to warp speed that Paramount Pictures executives expected. "Into Darkness," the second J.J. Abrams-directed installment in the long-running science-...

Cannes Film Festival projects cross-cultural cinema

2013-05-15 05:00:00

— Invariably, the Cannes Film Festival chooses a striking image for its official annual poster. But the 2013 version can be seen as a particularly apt metaphor for the dual nature of the world's most essential cinema event. Paris-based graphic...

Accepting this 'Great Gatsby' on its own terms

2013-05-14 06:00:00

To judge by some of the reviews of the new film adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," you'd think Australian director Baz Luhrmann would be facing extradition for his crime against an American classic. But I have a message for all those self-appointed...

The true cars of 'The Great Gatsby' era

2013-05-14 06:00:00

Even the casual car fans who helped push "The Great Gatsby" to a $51.1-million opening weekend probably noticed the Duesenberg Model J driven by Leonardo DiCaprio’s title character. The more chronologically inclined car fans may have also noticed...

A mermaid, a fashion film, a bath bomb and 'The Great Gatsby' [Updated 4:37 p.m. May 10]

2013-05-09 15:56:00

Members of L.A.’s film music elite mingled with weather-beaten eco-warrior sailors and neo Edwardian fashionistas amid costumes from Baz Luhrmann’s "The Great Gatsby" Tuesday night at the multi-textured unveiling of musician-arranger-...

'Gatsby' is talk of the town, but 'Iron Man 3' will still be No. 1

2013-05-09 12:44:00

"The Great Gatsby" is set to make a splashy debut at the box office this weekend, but "Iron Man 3" will still be the life of the party. The Marvel Studios film starring�Robert Downey Jr. debuted with a massive $174.1 million last weekend and has already...

'The Great Gatsby' in 3-D: Like 'homework coming right at you'?

2013-05-13 11:19:00

Moviegoers have always loved seeing Leonardo DiCaprio sporting period costumes, just so long as it's not a fat suit. But as eye-popping as this weekend's box-office results were for "The Great Gatsby," not that many moviegoers felt compelled to watch...

'The Great Gatsby's' opening weekend gets off to strong start

2013-05-10 11:05:00

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote in “The Great Gatsby,” a melancholy observation on the struggle to transform one’s dreams into future glory....

The houses of 'Gatsby': Q&A with production designer Catherine Martin

2013-05-11 09:56:00

The 21st century soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's splashy remake of "The Great Gatsby" may be a head-scratcher, but design fans can't quibble with the period sets created by production designer Catherine Martin. "The phone has been ringing off the hook,"...

'Iron Man 3' rules again, but 'Great Gatsby' is still celebrating

2013-05-12 08:56:00

“The Great Gatsby” wasn’t the No. 1 film at the box office this weekend, but Warner Bros. executives may be breaking out the bubbly anyway. Baz Luhrmann's 3-D take on of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920s novel lost out to “Iron Man 3,&...

'The Great Gatsby,' 'Big Shot' and the American Dream

2013-05-10 08:08:00

While those of us who write about film like to believe otherwise, most movies don’t have a lot to say about social or cultural moments. It's partly, as you'll often hear, because films are the culmination of a years-long effort whose moment has...

All-star 'Gatsby' soundtrack reportedly set for big debut

2013-05-11 16:04:00

One detail I didn't have room to include in last weekend's Arts & Books feature on the soundtrack to "The Great Gatsby" was just how the film's director, Baz Luhrmann, recruited Jay-Z to help him assemble the music for the movie. In an interview...

Leonardo DiCaprio, who has the starring role in "The Great Gatsby," at the Cannes international film festival where Australian director Baz Luhrmann's big-budget, 3-D adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic screened on opening night.

2013-05-15 00:00:00

PG-13; 2:23 running time "When I like men I want to be like them," Fitzgerald once wrote. "I want to lose the outer qualities that give me my individuality and be like them. I don't want the man; I want to absorb into myself all the qualities that make him attractive and leave him out.

2013-05-09 00:00:00

Some 14 years before his role in "The Great Gatsby," Tobey Maguire played Homer Wells in "The Cider House Rules." "Cider House Rules," based on the 1985 novel by John Irving, followed Homer's life from his boyhood in an orphanage, where he is raised by the resident physician Dr.

2013-04-09 18:13:40