Category: NICOLE KIDMAN’S FEARLESS PERFORMANCES

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Courtesan Glamour: Watching Moulin Rouge! in 7th grade

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Nicole Kidman, as Satine, a light-skinned woman with loose ginger hair, is gazing at the camera with a look of dangerous seduction on her face.

|Olga Tchepikova-Treon| Moulin Rouge! plays at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 24th through Sunday, January 26th. Visit trylon.org for tickets and more information. I saw the “Lady Marmalade” music video before I saw Moulin Rouge!. Performed by a hot quintet of pop-singing ladies (Missy Elliot, who I admired for smooth dance moves;… Continue reading

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A Subtle Kind of Jackhammer: Moulin Rouge!, Pop Art, and the Cinema of Baz Luhrmann

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| Dan McCabe | Moulin Rouge! plays at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 24th through Sunday, January 26th. Visit trylon.org for tickets and more information. Baz Luhrmann isn’t your typical “great” filmmaker. His style hits audiences like a jackhammer. Moulin Rouge! (2001) is technically a period drama, but you could… Continue reading

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A Stanley Kubrick Christmas: Intense Paranoia and Masquerade Orgies

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Masked group at the orgy staring ominously.

| Dan Howard | Eyes Wide Shut plays at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 17th through Sunday, January 19th. Visit trylon.org for tickets and more information. There’s certainly something about the holiday season that strikes a chord with filmmakers. Whether it’s Todd Hayne’s Carol, Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, or Shane Black’s Kiss Kiss Bang… Continue reading

A Woman’s Place in Television, Ambition and Murder: Gus Van Sant’s To Die For

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Nicole Kidman with strawberry blonde hair, purple eyeshadow, dark pink lipstick, dark pink jacket, gold earrings, staring into the camera in midspeech with white background. White text, "You're not anybody in America unless you're on TV," fills bottom of image.

|Penny Folger| To Die For plays at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 10th through Sunday, January 12th. Visit trylon.org for tickets and more information. Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, released in 1995, showcases a bristlingly ambitious woman named Suzanne Stone, played by Nicole Kidman, who will stop at nothing… Continue reading

Columns on Kidman: Revisiting To Die For 30 Years Later

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A black and white newspaper photo of Suzanne, portrayed by Nicole Kidman, happily reporting the weather for a television news broadcast.

|Ben Jarman & Carey Nadeau| To Die For plays at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 10th through Sunday, January 12th. Visit trylon.org for tickets and more information. The teens in this film are not realistic. That’s the only negative thing I thought about Gus Van Sant’s To Die For, but I… Continue reading

Ghosts in Spain: The Complicated History of Amenábar’s Breakout Hit

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Nicole Kidman cries while looking through a metal gate in the fog front of a large mansion.

|Malcolm Cooke| The Others plays at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 10th through Sunday, January 12th. Visit trylon.org for tickets and more information. Director Alejandro Amenábar wrote the music for his third film, The Others (2001), just like he had for all of his previous projects. He was admittedly still an… Continue reading