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‘Slightly terrifying’: New Elvis movie a big, ambitious effort

By John Katsilometes, Las Vegas Review-Journal

Baz Luhrmann’s “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” requires its own category. Not quite a concert film, though filled with Elvis performance footage. Not a documentary, though, The King himself narrates what is essentially his life story.

“Baz was pretty clear, the words ‘concert film’ and ‘documentary’ were taboo,” says the film’s executive producer and editor, Jonathan Redmond, during an interview in Westgate’s top-level “Elvis Suite,” aka Imperial Sky Villa. “The term we’re kind of using is ‘Tone Poem,’ that’s meant to be a little more abstract FINISH READING HERE

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