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Henry Brubaker has just been appointed the new warden of a small prison in rural Arkansas.

Is Baz Luhrmann's take on the 1925 novel a stunning visual feast for the eyes, or a case of style over substance? Graham Young finds out... Opening in 1922 and based on the 1925 novel by American author F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby has already been adapted for the silver screen three times.

By Frances Burscough So, after months of hype and tantalising teasers on the TV, the big screen and in the press, Baz Luhrmann's remake of The Great Gatsby finally opened here last night.

Cold War thriller about an East German physician whose request to emigrate marks her as an enemy of the state.

The "Game of Thrones" author says Leonardo DiCaprio has never been better, and easily tops Robert Redford as the best Gatsby.

Once again, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American story comes to film , 1974 and again in 2000 , as a TV Movie). This time out it is helmed by director Baz Luhrmann who has previously given us Moulin Rouge! and Romeo + Juliet so we knew from the outset that this was going to be a wild ride, and we were so totally not disappointed.

Los Angeles, May 15 : Australian director Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gasby" is only the latest in a series of screen adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's book.

The new Baz Luhrmann-directed film adaptation of "The Great Gatsby"made a big bang over the weekend at the box office with a $50 million take domestically, but it wasn't the first time the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic had been made for the big screen, Back in 1974, the book was adapted with stars Robert Redford , Mia Farrow and Sam Waterston .

If you liked 'Moulin Rouge,' you will be quite entertained with director Baz Luhrmann 's dazzling film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel.

Baz Luhrmann 's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby rolls out to over 3,000 screens this weekend.

He was the driving force behind making the big-screen version of All the President's Men, but from the start Robert Redford did not plan to be in it.

Back in 1974, little thought was given to the commercial value of the costumes worn by Robert Redford and Mia Farrow in The Great Gatsby.

With the latest big-screen version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby opening in theaters today, here's a look back at the 1974 version starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow: That's a still from the earlier movie, of Sam Waterson as Nick Carraway tucking into his dinner with his 1920s copy of Barron's in front of him.

I have a vague, watercolor memory of watching Robert Redford's 1970s pastel version of " The Great Gatsby ." Where Redford's Gatsby was more subdued, a pretty pastel, Baz Luhrmann 's take on Fitzgerald's classic character was purely in your face.

Robert Redford's The Company You Keep will continue to show at the Guild Theater in Menlo Park this weekend.

Imagine the thorny questions the film could've raised had its hero been guilty. The actual motivations for radical violence would've had to have been engaged, instead of bandied about as rhetoric.

Despite normally starring in and directing more low key dramas, Robert Redford is taking some time for big blockbuster fun with a role as the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in Captain America: The Winter Soldier next spring.

Uncovering secrets: Brit Marling and Shia LaBeouf in 'The Company You Keep' . In essence, the movie is about the decisions that people make, and the consequences they suffer.

"Then a five-course dinner while we watch Robert Redford be his handsome self. Then we are ordering 125 copies of 'The Great Gatsby' from Carmichael's so everyone will be leaving with a copy of the book." Legend has a number of connections between F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby," and the Seelbach Hotel - for instance, that he ... (more)

Thirty-nine years ago, as a very young Courier-Journal reporter, I traveled south by train to Montgomery, Alabama, to connect with the world that novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, knew in the early part of the 20th century.