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‘Screaming girls chased me down the street’: how we made Strictly Ballroom

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By Ryan Gilbey 
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‘Fran and Scott are the centre of their own world’ … Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice in Strictly Ballroom. Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy Tara Morice, played Fran Baz Luhrmann was this cool guy two years ahead of me at NIDA, the drama school in Sydney. When I graduated, I joined his theatre company Six Years Old and the play of Strictly Ballroom came out of that. It was inspired by Keith Bain, who taught movement at the school.
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The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’

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By Anne Billson, Peter Bradshaw , Catherine Bray, Ryan Gilbey , Simran Hans , Stuart Heritage , Ann Lee, Joseph McBride , Sasha Mistlin, Gwilym Mumford , Andrew Pulver , Scott Tobias , Edgar Wright
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Steven Spielberg is often described as the inventor of the “event movie” – or as the creator of our new age of IP supremacy, in which the genre property is more important than any above-the-title film star. But that isn’t quite it. He came of age in the American new wave era but in spirit belonged neither to that nor fully to Hollywood’s golden age studio system that preceded it. In fact, he synthesised both into a directing style that was audacious and fluent.
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The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: ‘pure popcorn perfection’

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By Anne Billson, Peter Bradshaw , Catherine Bray, Ryan Gilbey , Simran Hans , Stuart Heritage , Ann Lee, Joseph McBride , Sasha Mistlin, Gwilym Mumford , Andrew Pulver , Scott Tobias , Edgar Wright
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Spielberg’s early achievement was to bring about an evolutionary sea change, reinvigorating pulp-popular themes and ideas and giving them a new maturity and mainstream box office credibility. The idea of a giant shark crazed with a vindictive taste for human flesh or dinosaurs busting out of an amusement park is something that Roger Corman or Ed Wood Jr might have made in two weeks with risible rubber creatures. In Jaws and Jurassic Park, Spielberg’s production values were state of the art.
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