Elvis sings and tells his story like never before.
Long-lost footage from Elvis Presley's legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour, and 8mm from the Graceland archive, plus recordings of Elvis telling "his side of the story" rediscovered during Baz Luhrmann's research for his 2022 film, Elvis.
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Nostalgic, earnest, warm and character-led.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20267/10
If you enjoyed the David Bowie “Moonage Daydream” (2022) documentary, then you’ll probably enjoy this similarly constructed film that follows Elvis as he gears up for one of his residency concerts in Las Vegas. Using an engaging array of archive footage from his performances, his interviews and from some of his personal home movies we get something of the sense of the sheer charisma this man offered. There are no journalistic contributions to clutter it up - indeed the only voices that aren’t his are the ones posing the odd questions at press conferences that ask some quite salient questions of a man who was born with a glint in his eye and a pivot in his hip. Baz Luhrmann has cleverly augmented the audio of the original performances at times, notably “Burning Love” with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and “Suspicious Minds” - and the compilation style of it's editing ensuring the continuity of the song whilst we dart from one performance to another works well. Not least because in many cases it shows us a man who isn’t necessarily ageing gracefully, either! There is a minimum of distraction throughout this feature, and even if you are not the biggest fan of the man or his music,
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Cast
- Elvis PresleySelf (archive footage)
- James BurtonSelf (archive footage)
- John WilkinsonSelf (archive footage)
- Charlie HodgeSelf (archive footage)
- Jerry ScheffSelf (archive footage)
- Glen D. HardinSelf (archive footage)
- Ronnie TuttSelf (archive footage)
- BonoSelf (voice)
- Sammy Davis Jr.Self (archive footage)
- Cary GrantSelf (archive footage)
Crew
- Baz LuhrmannDirector
- Elliott WheelerOriginal Music Composer
- Jonathan RedmondEditor
- Baz LuhrmannProducer
- Jeremy CastroProducer
- Matthew GrossProducer
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