Moulin Rouge w/ Jose Solis
“Moulin Rouge represents me at a soul level. It felt like it was doing something radical … It took some courage [to make].” —Jose Solís
Jose Solís
Aditya is joined by Jose Solís, film critic and the host of the Token Theatre Friends podcast, to dive into how the wild, campy, colorful world of Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge (2001) spoke to Jose during his childhood in Honduras.
Jose began his career as a critic at age 16 when he launched a film review website while living in Honduras, where he was born. He began writing about theatre while attending college in Costa Rica, and upon moving to NYC in 2012 he focused entirely on the stage. His work appears in The New York Times, American Theatre, TDF Stages, Backstage, 3 Views, and America Magazine. In 2020 he was selected as the Floria Lasky Visiting Artist at Hunter College where he will host the Wed@One series, and started the BIPOC Critics Lab, a workshop he created to train the cultural critics of the future. The second installment of the Lab will be hosted by the Kennedy Center. As the creator and host of Token Theatre Friends, a weekly web series/podcast, he talks to some of the most influential theatre artists working today.
You can find Jose on Twitter and listen to his podcast, Token Theatre Friends, here.