The Great Gatsby is stunning, but it's meaningfully, provocatively stunning. This isn't just awesome spectacle for spectacle's sake. Luhrmann uses sensory overload in a similar way to Harmony Korine in Springbreakers - to disorientate the audience and send them reeling into a hallucinogenic whirl.

One of the problems with adapting a famous literary work for film is that there is a lot of subtext and nuance to try and capture in a visual super-text medium. This problem is compounded when the director is known for his visual flair rather than his subtlety.

Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby is like a fast-spinning glitterball of excess on the cinema screen.

If a film ultimately about emptiness leaves you 142 lavish minutes later feeling thoroughly depleted, does that mean it's a brilliant film? Discuss.

Cara Delevingne has made her mark at Cannes. Britain's hottest supermodel appeared at home as she walked the red carpet for 'The Great Gatsby' prem...

We're currently in the throes of a Great-Gatsby mania; beaded flapper dresses, tipped blazers and straw boaters are suddenly the height of fashion and Gatsby-themed, well, anything - charity galas, cocktails, pop-up speakeasies, even hotel suites.

Everything you needed to know about 'The Great Gatsby' film - Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel, in 9 easy-...

To celebrate the release of Baz Luhrmann’s 'THE GREAT GATSBY' in cinemas in both 2D and spectacular 3D on 16 May we’ve got a sneak peek at thi...

One of the highlights of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival will undoubtedly be the premiere of the much anticipated 'The Great Gatsby'. And as the annu...

Leonardo DiCaprio is still getting those leading man roles, 16 years after he won our hearts in the epic romance 'Titanic' as artist Jack Dawson. ...

Leonardo DiCaprio has described the Cannes Film Festival as an "insane experience" but also hailed it as the "mecca for the world to celebrate filmmak...

'Never judge a book by its cover', but when it comes to vintage first editions of classic novels, that wise old truth goes out the window. A dust j...

If we study the Gatsby phenomenon in detail, we would realise that every society has its Jay. But the factors that produce a Gatsby can be amazingly different. For instance, in the case of India it was not war, but economic reforms which gave birth to this culture. Here I shall discuss the strange case of three Indian tycoons who had shades of Jay, and like him met violent deaths.

The Great Gatsby is currently available in the UK in at least seven different editions, is about to appear in its sixth film adaptation, has been adapted on innumerable occasions for radio and theatre, even succeeding without adaptation as an eight-hour theatre reading, and has also been performed as a ballet, an opera and an orchestral suite.

Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel 'The Great Gatsby' has received mixed reactions from critics in the US. T...

Fergie has unveiled her 'The Great Gatsby' party song, which tips its hat to a bygone age of swinging jazz. The Black Eyed Peas singer teamed up w...

Beyonce's and Andre 3000's cover of Amy Winehouse's 'Back To Black' has debuted in a new epic trailer for 'The Great Gatsby'. With one month to g...

Adaptations are the mac 'n' cheese of modern Hollywood. The marketing executive dangles a shiny bestseller before the film consumer like a matador's capote; powerless to resist its allure, he dives for knowing it's probably a mirage of brilliance - and that he won't even get to gore the guy behind it.

The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice and several other literary classics have been given a Pulp-style redesign. Released by Oldcastle Books, the n...

No film-making tool has attracted the same level of disdain as 3D has over the last few years. Now into its third wave (fourth if you add the brief dalliance in the 20s to the more famous periods of the 50s and 80s), 3D is inspiring film fans and critics to unite in their condemnation.

The Great Gasby trailer has arrived, and the film's director Baz Luhrmann has already proved he's got a few tricks to bring F Scott Fitzgerald's Golde...