'Elvis Presley in Concert' movie at the TIFF on September 6, 2025
Source: Baz Luhrmann | Elvis Day By Day
August 13, 2025
The Toronto International Film Festival updates the information on their website on Baz Luhrmann's 'EPiC' movie. The site reads: Baz Luhrmann's extraordinary documentary may be the most poignant account of Elvis Presley's life and career to date, featuring long-lost footage from his epochal 1970s residency in Las Vegas.
Baz Luhrmann returns to the subject of his most audacious film - 2022's Elvis - with the extraordinary 'EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert'. Free of contemporary interviews with experts, critics or other stakeholders, the film is propelled by recently discovered archival footage shot at the beginning of the famed performer's Las Vegas residency. Originally intended to last a few weeks at the International Hotel, the 1969 engagement was shockingly lucrative, and stretched on for over seven years.
Brilliantly compiled with an aficionado's enthusiasm and sensitivity, the film shifts skilfully between rehearsals, where Presley is cheerful, hard-working, even goofy, and live performances that vary from powerful and grandiose to rushed. There are moments where he can't keep up with the breakneck arrangements and loses his breath. (He was booked to do at least two shows most days.) Among the standouts are 'Poke Salad Annie' and 'Burning Love,' a chart-topper he cut in early 1972. There are also cutaways to an army of excited celebrities attending the shows and a nod to Presley's journey from scandalous hip-shaker to showbiz icon.
Luhrmann's previous feature stressed Presley manager Colonel Tom Parker's disastrous impact on his client's artistic growth and ability to tour internationally. Here, the focus lands on Presley's musicianship and his interactions with band members and singers. What's revealed is his deep knowledge of gospel, blues, and country traditions, and his instinctive feel for finding the best arrangements and pace for his songs. This is perhaps the most poignant account of Presley to date.
Update from Angie Marchese at Graceland
In an interview with the Pink Cadillac Podcast Angie Marchese shared a few interesting facts on a new book project and the preserving of the 'lost' MGM footage for 'Elvis on Tour' and 'Elvis: That's The Way It Is' movies.
Graceland is working on a new book on Elvis' jumpsuits. For this project they literally took every jumpsuit off display to photograph it. 'We've got all the outfits photographed in detail, where you can get close-ups of their design and how they're made, like the butterflies and all the little things that are on them. Some suits are taking a little bit of a break from the Rock in the Dress to Rock exhibit because there's another movie coming out this fall and some of them might be featured in that movie and also featured in a new exhibit at Graceland'.
Warner Brothers now owns the MGM footage for 'Elvis On Tour' and 'Elvis: That's The Way It Is'. Thanks to Baz Luhrmann's work on the 2022 'ELVIS' movie, (all) the footage and the audio was found in the salt mines. 'They brought it out and they digitized it and matched the sounds up to the footage and all of that stuff' for future use.
Even if Baz doesn't use all of the footage in the movie, it now has been put in a put in a condition that it can be used and it can be shared. 'So, that's what's exciting about it … And I mean, can you imagine? I mean, literally, there's like six shows, complete shows for 'Elvis on Tour', and we only see one of them. You only see bits and pieces, not the full show. Elvis does several costume changes in 'Elvis on Tour' because they cut the different shows together, but now that they're being preserved this way for Baz to use them for this film, they will be preserved as whole shows'.
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Baz Luhrmann Announces Elvis Project At Sony Event
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Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD
Never before have we seen an Elvis Presley concert from the 1950's with sound. Until Now! The DVD Contains recently discovered unreleased film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel, live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. + Plus Bonus DVD Audio.
This is an excellent release no fan should be without it.
The 'parade' footage is good to see as it puts you in the right context with color and b&w footage. The interviews of Elvis' Parents are well worth hearing too. The afternoon show footage is wonderful and electrifying : Here is Elvis in his prime rocking and rolling in front of 11.000 people. Highly recommended.
Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Video with Sound.
