'Moulin Rouge' A Cult Classic?POSTED: 2:23 p.m. EST March 3, 2003 "Moulin Rouge" could be on its way to
becoming a cult classic.
One theater in the Westwood section of Los
Angeles, the Mann Festival Theater near UCLA, will start holding midnight screenings
of "Moulin Rouge."
It's just like the "Rocky Horror Picture
Show" has been doing for years at lots of theaters. Twentieth
Century Fox says it's "responding to demands from its legions of
fans -- including a rally in front of its studio lot."
The film is a Baz Luhrmann musical starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor. It is set in turn-of-the-century Paris, but features modern pop tunes.
McGregor (known to some as the young Ben Kenobi), Kidman ("The Others"), and a talented supporting cast transport us to Paris circa the 1890s, portraying characters in the famed nightclub who are putting on "Spectacular, Spectacular" -- a performance laced with the ideals of the Bohemian society: Truth, beauty, freedom, and love.
Today's songs are revamped and weaved intricately into the story, somehow fitting in when they would have been thought to take away from the picture as a whole. Kidman and McGregor sing these tunes wonderfully, proving that movie actors can do more than speak their given lines. (Click Here For Our Review)
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