Elvis Presley in Concert (EPiC) was born from Luhrmann’s deep dive into a film archive in a Kansas City salt mine. The ’70s Vegas concert footage he retrieved is now in Imax theatres, and Australia’s most successful director is celebrating 25 years since Moulin Rouge made him a household name.
The lights went down as a kangaroo and emu-emblazoned production company emblem filled the seven-storey Imax screen, framed by the words ‘Truth, Beauty, Freedom, and Love.’ True to form, the jewel-toned Bazmark logo is vivacious, punchy, and unapologetically Australian, in much the same fashion as the evocative Sydney-boy who put decadent ‘red curtain’ cinema on the global map.
The night belonged not only to Luhrmann, our greatest directorial export, but also to a Mississippi-born legend whose voice hasn’t bellowed through live theatres since 1976.
“I’d like to talk to you a little bit, ladies and gentlemen, about how I got into this business,” the King of Rock and Roll told the sold-out Melbourne audience. “There’s been a lot written and a lot said, but never from my side of the story.”
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