“I’M TRYING TO be more focused,” says Baz Luhrmann, before adding with a laugh, “Not possible. You’ve seen my movies, right?” We have. And the Australian auteur’s latest is Elvis, a two-and-a-half-hour biopic of the King Of Rock ’N’ Roll, Elvis Presley. A dizzying, none-more-Baz-like roulette-wheel-spin through Presley’s life, it features a great central performance from Austin Butler, and a number of key performances from Presley’s career, some of which happened, some of which didn’t. We asked Luhrmann, in his inimitable, long-way-round, trying-to-be-more-focused, scenic-route way, to talk us through five of the best.
AN AMERICAN TRILOGY