November 23, 2025

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ELVIS (2022) – AFI Movie Club

Taking care of business in a manner worthy of the King – and featuring a transformative supportive performance from AFI Life Achievement Award honoree Tom Hanks as the Colonel – director Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS (2022) was honored in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, “ELVIS is a cinematic supernova of kaleidoscopic brilliance – one ever so fitting the “King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Baz Luhrmann’s genius for conducting the electric power of music and emotion raise this film above the screams of adoring fans with equal parts plentitude and poetry. A star is born in Austin Butler, whose performance leaps from the screen to embody one of the 20th Century’s most charismatic icons.”