Selected Works

Cinema Under the Stars: Baz Lurhmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Friday, August 28, 2009, 9 p.m.

Members/students $3, non-members $5

Rated PG-13, 127 min.

Starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, and Jim Broadbent

Moulin Rouge! recasts Verdi's La Traviata as a romantic musical in a fin de-siècle Paris cabaret, accompanied by the songs of Madonna, Elton John, and Nirvana. The plot involving a young British poet in love with a cabaret actress and courtesan is mostly a pretext for some of the most extravagant song numbers and costumes to appear in film since the heyday of Hollywood musicals.

This summer Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host "Musicals and Mayhem," the fourth season of Cinema Under the Stars, a film series co-sponsored by the School of Filmmaking of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Films from different eras will be screened at 9 p.m. each Friday night in August and the first Friday in September. Weather permitting, the movies will be shown outside on the lawn. In case of rain, films will be shown in the Babcock Auditorium. Beer and wine will be available for purchase only. The gates open at 8 p.m. and filmgoers are encouraged to come early and picnic on the lawn.

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Cinema Under the Stars: Baz Lurhmann's Moulin Rouge! (2001) Friday, August 28, 2009, 9 p.m.
Members/students $3, non-members $5
Rated PG-13, 127 min. Starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, and Jim Broadbent Moulin Rouge! recasts Verdi's La Traviata as a romantic musical in a fin de-siècle Paris cabaret, accompanied by the songs of Madonna, Elton John, and Nirvana. The plot involving a young British poet in love with a cabaret actress and courtesan is mostly a pretext for some of the most extravagant song numbers and costumes to appear in film since the heyday of Hollywood musicals. This summer Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host "Musicals and Mayhem," the fourth season of Cinema Under the Stars, a film series co-sponsored by the School of Filmmaking of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Films from different eras will be screened at 9 p.m. each Friday night in August and the first Friday in September. Weather permitting, the movies will be shown outside on the lawn. In case of rain, films will be shown in the Babcock Auditorium. Beer and wine will be available for purchase only. The gates open at 8 p.m. and filmgoers are encouraged to come early and picnic on the lawn.

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