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Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, defying the odds of being filmed at the height of the pandemic, premiered to a 12-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival. 

From Nickelodeon to the King of Rock, we break down his life

CANNES, France — Elvis Presley famously never got the overseas touring career he deserved. He played only three venues outside the U.S., all of them in Canada in 1957, well before reaching peak superstardom. Instead of going international, he remained a fixture of the International Hotel in Las Vegas from…

Incurious yet frantic, Luhrmann’s spangly epic is off-key – and Austin Butler flounders in those blue suede shoes

This is the Australian director’s most substantial work since Romeo + Juliet

Actor was not asked by Luhrmann to appear in the film but would have denied if she had been

Actor said watching the film ‘was a very emotional experience’

Austin Butler shakes his stuff as Elvis, Cronenberg gets creepy, Claire Denis takes on colonial agony and Hirokazu Kore-eda unwraps his first Korean-language film

The French cultural institution, which turns 75 this year, has always been a battle between radicalism and elitism – but that’s what makes it so essential

Australian director’s biopic about the singing legend to be unveiled at Cannes film festival next week

Aomtfter a rapturous reception in Cannes, the surprise hit suddenly "signalled the beginning of a new era in Australian cinema".