movie review

EPIC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT

Running time: 100 minutes.

TORONTO — Elvis fans will have some choice words for Baz Luhrmann after they watch his new music documentary “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert,” which had its world premiere Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

They’ll say, “Thank you, thank you very much!”

The snap-crackle-pop Aussie’s latest project, which does not have a distributor or release date yet, is nothing short of unburied treasure for lovers of The King. A veritable King Tut’s tomb of rock.

And like those 1920s Egyptologists, Luhrmann had to dig.

The “Elvis” and “Moulin Rouge” director secured rare access to 59 hours of negatives of Presley’s seven-year Las Vegas residency at the International Hotel that had been gathering dust in Warne

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