SILVER

With its eight Academy Award® nominations, director Baz Luhrmann's phantasmagorical musical has been hailed as one of the most visually inventive and wildly kinetic films in recent memory for its mixture of turn-of-the-century Parisian nightlife, late 20th-century pop music (beautifully performed in the film by star-crossed lovers Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor) and astonishingly ornate Academy Award®–winning production and costume design, courtesy of Catherine Martin. (Note courtesy of American Cinematheque.) DIR/PROD/SCR Baz Luhrmann; SCR Craig Pearce; PROD Fred Baron, Martin Brown. Australia/U.S., 2001, color/b&w, 127 min. RATED PG-13

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