" Music touches and unites us in a way words cannot discribe.
Music is there when words fail us. " - Baz

Baz Luhrmann Name: Bazmark Anthony Luhrmann Date of birth: 17 September 1962, Place of Birth: New South Wales, Australia Spouse: Catherine Martin

Director - filmography Rent (2002) Moulin Rouge! (2001) Romeo + Juliet (1996) Strictly Ballroom (1992) Writer - filmography Rent (2002) Moulin Rouge! (2001) Romeo + Juliet (1996) Strictly Ballroom (1992) Producer - filmography Rent (2002) Moulin Rouge! (2001) Romeo + Juliet (1996) Miscellaneous crew - filmography Bohème, La (1993) (TV) (opera director)

Actor - filmography Night Club of Your Dreams: The Making of Moulin Rouge (2001) (TV) .... Himself/ 'director/co-prod/co-writ' William Shakespeare (2000) .... Director, Romeo & Juliet The Dark Room (1982) .... First Student Winter of Our Dreams (1981) .... Pete

Baz, Nicole Kidman and Jim Broadbent from Moulin Rouge.	Baz with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Daines from Romeo + Juliet

Trade mark: Frequently uses bright distinct colors and fast-paced editing.

Trivia: Baz Luhrmann presented and produced the song that hit the charts in 1999, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"

He attended the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in Sydney. While he was at NIDA, he was choosen to assist on Peter Brook's play " The Mahabarata". The following year he wrote and staged "Strictly Ballroom". After that he took Strictly Ballroom to the World Youth Theater Festival in (what was then, in 1985), Czechoslovakia. He won awards for Best Production and Director. When he graduated from NIDA, he formed an independent theater group call the Six Year Old Company, which he was the Artistic Director. With the company he revived "Strictly Ballroom".

Produced and directed a hit re-invention of the classic opera "La Boheme" for the stage in Sydney, taking place in the 1950s post-war Paris, stressing acting more than big "Pavarotti style voices", to create an experience for "people who might be a little intimidated by opera". It was eventually filmed in 1993 for PBS's "Great Performances".

In Moulin Rouge the Orphean myth is central to what Luhrmann calls a "Red Curtain" theatrical style, which he has employed in each of his three films.

Luhrmann explains: "We take a simple story based on a recognizable primary myth and set it in a heightened, created world that is at once exotic yet also recognizable. Strictly Ballroom was set in world of ballroom dancing, and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the heightened world of Verona Beach. In our third film it's the underworld of the Moulin Rouge in 1899.

My words: I love Baz's work. I first saw his talented work in Strictly Ballroom which I loved, the dancing and story line was so fast you never had time to get bored. Then I saw Romeo and Juliet. I found it very hard at first to understand the speech in Romeo and Juliet but after watching it a second time it became one of my favorite films. Then Moulin Rouge. What a film. It is so colorful

Pool scene in Romeo + Juliet	Premire

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