As writers and directors grow up and move on, they leave behind their juvenilia and discover their real power – but not all of them, as Baz Luhrmann shows with ‘The Great Gatsby’, a blisteringly lurid farrago that wrecks a delicate, relatively low-key novel by turning it into a gigantic three-ring circus. Pedro Almodovar left [...]
Published on May 22, 2013 00:05