By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Baz Luhrmann’s garish adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” managed to remain remarkably faithful to the classic novel’s words while altering its tone enough to turn that bitter morality tale into a flamboyantly ove [...]
By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Classic literature goes to candyland in this crazily colorful fever-dream fantasy version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel. Director Baz Luhrmann has transformed the author’s noirishly bitter jazz-age period piece into a brazenly bizar [...]