For everyone who's been wondering what Baz Luhrmann’s been up to in the seven years since “Moulin Rouge,” we finally have the trailer for his long-delayed but forthcoming epic “Australia.”

More on the state of film criticism from the always-insightful Filmbrain.

In reading the initial posts to The Lens, you might have wondered, like Butch and Sundance, "Who are those guys?" Here's some belated info on our first contributors; as new writers post, I'll continue to provide brief introductions.

A week after Mildred Loving's death, the case she brought four decades ago against anti-miscegenation laws led to the California Supreme Court decision upholding same-sex "marriage."  The decision could have ramifications on the presidential race.

Did the press given Phyllis Schlafly more attention than she deserves? That old question has morphed into a bigger debate about whether the press can be fair.

If you want to post a lot of pictures of young girls from Rochefort dancing about architecture, it's OK with me. Add what almost amounts to a manifesto for film criticism by Wisconsin formalist David Bordwell, and it's even better. Read it here .

Also on the critical front, recently retired Jonathan Rosenbaum gives his thoughts on body-snatching, driller-killing Abel Ferrara .

"Privilege," one of the best movies ever made about rock music and the culture/exploitation of celebrity, rarely seen in the last 30 years, is making its long overdue video debut in July, courtesy of New Yorker Video.

Compared to the current flings with torture and Asian-influenced weirdness currently dominating the horror market, Mitchell Lichtenstein's "Teeth," recently released on video, could practically be described as charming and innocent, though its content, the story of a teenage girl who has an extra set of teeth in the wrong place, is anything but that.

"Inside the Actor's Studio," if James Lipton were red and fuzzy and adorable:

As noted in another post, "Eraserhead" plays with the documentary "Lynch" from May 23-25 at Webster U. Here's an excerpt from a 1978 "Soho News" interview with David Lynch, on the "Eraserhead" baby: