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Planning a Joan of Arc movie … Baz Luhrmann with Catherine Martin at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia last November.

Baz Luhrmann to shoot an epic Joan of Arc film

After Elvis, the Australian director is planning an epic about the famous French heroine and patron saint.

  • Garry Maddox

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Iona is an oasis of soaring trees and old world heritage charm set on 2700 square metres in Darlinghurst.

One of inner Sydney’s finest: The house that Baz Luhrmann sold asks $40m

The landmark mansion was a hospital for decades and later owned by a Hollywood couple, and retains its original grandeur plus distinctive decoration.

  • Lucy Macken
Rose Byrne starred with the late Heath Ledger in Australian film Two Hands.

Balmain is the pop culture mecca of Sydney. Here’s why

From Lantana to Gatsby to Our Rose Byrne, Balmain’s cultural footprint is huge.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Joe Hockey gives good chat.

Virtually good value: A jolly Joe Hockey gig costs $20,000 a pop

The former treasurer, who once declared an end to the “age of entitlement”, has a big price tag attached to his time.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Anthony Pratt attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Box billionaire goes Pratty in pink at the Met Gala

Visy cardboard king Anthony Pratt was one of the brightest figures on the glamour carpet in New York, if not the best dressed.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Taylor Swift givers her 22 hat to Scarlett Oliver at Accor Stadium on Friday night. The nine-year-old has been undergoing chemotherapy for a brain tumour.

Taylor Swift gives young girl with brain tumour her 22 hat

Nine-year-old Scarlett Oliver’s wish came true at Taylor Swift’s first Sydney show on Friday night, when she was given Swift’s black hat during her song 22.

  • Louise Rugendyke
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Elenoa Rokobaro stars as Nellie with Eleanor Stankiewicz in the Sydney Festival show, Send for Nellie.

Nellie Small: The queer black icon Sydney didn’t know it had

A long forgotten star of the Sydney stage, Nellie Small, will be honoured in a tribute show at the 2024 Sydney Festival.

  • Helen Pitt
Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin at the opening of the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia on November 30.

Baz Luhrmann reinvented his film Australia using epic 2.1 million feet of footage

The celebrated Australian director has turned his most polarising film into a six-chapter miniseries for Disney+.

  • Garry Maddox
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jacknam in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia.

It’s time to admit we were all wrong about this Baz Luhrmann film

It’s a much better and much more thoughtful film than you probably remember.

  • Garry Maddox
Baz Luhrmann.

The first look at Baz Luhrmann’s new TV series Faraway Downs

The director has turned his polarising film Australia into a six-part TV series.

  • Sandra Hall

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