It's funny how time seems to change attitudes towards many works of art, including the 1974 film treatment of Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby." At the time of its release the movie received some of the most scathingly negative reviews I can recall for any film. The reviews were no...
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that bling in Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby,” which arrives six months after its originally scheduled December release date but maintains something of a gussied-up holiday feel, like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade as staged by Liberace....
My slacker days have just come back to haunt me. I’ll come clean: I’ve never read "The Great Gatsby." I took American Literature in college, but the syllabus in that class required "Tender is the Night," which I still managed to skip. The reason I dredging up my past is I’m ...
The Great Gatsby: Directed by Robert Markowitz. With Mira Sorvino, Toby Stephens, Paul Rudd, Martin Donovan. Stock broker Nick Carraway consents to play Cupid for his rich married cousin Daisy Buchanan and her former love, nouveau riche Jay Gatsby.
The movie is “faithful” to the novel with a vengeance — to what happens in the novel, that is, and not to the feel, mood, and spirit of it. Yet I’ve never thought the events in The Great Gatsby were that important to the novel’s success; Fitzgerald, who came out of St. Pa...
The Great Gatsbyremains an overrated novel in my honest opinion, though its thematic resonance is indisputable. The movie itself was very good technically speaking, but ultimately it lost points for bad acting and characterization. Thus, the book is better, though I did not really care all that...
Movies The Great Gatsby Watch It About Gallery Buy - On Disc About The uniquely imaginative Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!, Australia) tackles F. Scott Fitzgerald's landmark novel, The Great Gatsby, with blockbuster star Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. Spider-Man's Tobey Maguire star...
Watch the movie trailer for The Great Gatsby (2013). Directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton and Carey Mulligan. Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myst
The Great Gatsby: Directed by Jack Clayton. With Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black. A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
The Great Gatsby: Directed by Baz Luhrmann. With Lisa Adam, Frank Aldridge, Amitabh Bachchan, Steve Bisley. A writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby,