and of course, as women, who opens this year with a 3-d blockbuster period piece -- of course, baz luhrmann. it appears after three weak years, the festival is determined to set down a marker to prove that it still the greatest film festival in the world. >> the oil painting "cathedral squirm along" was purchased by a private american collector for nearly 29 million euros. -- "cathedral square milan." we will be having more on the trial of the surviving members of a suspected neo-nazi group at the top of the hour. stay with us for that. >> be sure to keep it here. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> welcome to "newsline." . it's thursday, may 16th. i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. members in tokyo have approved a political resolution that calls for a resolution in syria. despite some holdouts they have condemned the regime of assad said in he's carrying out attacks on indiscriminately on civilians. >> it is adopted. >> qatar's representative drafted the resolution. 107 countries approved it.

and the 1920s in a place like america where everything -- >> baz luhrmann creates that world in such roar in this film. but with baz, you know, any time you sit in a room with him he's one of the most nostalgic sort of exciting artists you could everen your ter and almost impossible to say no to him because he transports you to another era. >> were you reluctant. >> i was reluctant because i think that what's so powerful about this novel is everyone has their own interpretation of these characters and it's such a voyeuristic novel. the way fitzgerald writes these scenes you feel like you're in the room with them so everyone has their own intimate relationship with these -- >> especially in 3d. does that change when you're acting, do you adjust your performance knowing it's going to be in 3d. >> oh, no, never. but, you know, we really attempted this like a theater productio production. the last plaza sequence which is ten minutes long in the movie which is the final climax of the novel. >> the fight. >> the big fight at the end, you know, we rehearsed that like a theater company for w

yeah, i was at dinner for "vogue" and i was sitting -- i was actually sitting on a table with baz luhrmann's. and she wouldn't look at me in the eye. >> jimmy: and you had already auditioned for the role? >> i had auditioned three weeks before and i'd been waiting for the phone to ring for three weeks. >> jimmy: 'cause she won't look at you, so you're like -- >> "oh, i didn't get it." >> jimmy: i didn't get it, yeah, yeah. she won't even have a conversation with me. >> so i made a beeline for the exit and she came and she took me by the arm and she handed me her phone. and she said, "someone needs to talk to you." and i took the phone, and it was baz, and he went, "hello, daisy." and that's how i got the job. >> jimmy: you go the job. you said in the press, you were hoping to meet jay-z because i know he's in the sound track -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: and did you finally meet him? >> i met him! >> jimmy: this makes me laugh, because it didn't go well, did it? >> it went really badly. >> jimmy: oh, my gosh! what happened? were you too embarrassed or too shy? >> i'm going red now thinking about it.

it's easily baz luhrmann's best debut ever.g out the top five, jackie robinson biopic, 42, and peeples opening with dismal opening with tyler perry's name attached to it. >> tomorrow marks one month since the boston marathon bombing. now, you're probably familiar with the two names of the people who planned and carried it out, the tsarnaev brothers were even captured on surveillance cameras before their bombs exploded. it's frustrating for people in boston to see the video knowing police weren't even looking for them. >> the photos, the video, it's all there. the tsarnaev brothers with back packs working their way through the crowd for at least 11 minutes, and none of it mattered. the bombs exploded anyway. one reason, no one was watching. the cameras were passive. recording all of the calm before, all the chaos after. and incapable of preventing the crime despite multiple surveillance cameras at the scene. for it to be preventative, what needs to happen? >> you would need the cameras at the right place at the right time, being

. >> reporter: baz luhrmann gave us strictly ballroom.ersion of "romeo and juliet." now the two team up again to take on an american classic. >> gatsby. >> i can feel the hunger, you know, sometimes it's not there, it's there. >> it's the film. >> the book. the fitzgerald thing whips everybody up. >> who is this gatsby? >> reporter: perhaps it's the glamour of the era or the legend of jay gatsby. >> turns into a dark psychological journey. gatsby is the hamlet of america. that's what attracted leonardo. he has natural screen glamour. he can't help it. early on that made him very successful very quickly. he could have cashed that check very easily and lived comfortably but he's only interested in complex challenging acting. >> reporter: it is a part tailor made for the 38-year-old oscar nominee, but the role of daisy buchanan was up for grabs. >> that was a "gone with the wind" search and everyone wanted to play that role. >> reporter: luhrmann and dicaprio knew at her first audition it belonged to carey mulligan. >> her chemistry with leo

>> well -- >> even when he's in front of the camera baz luhrmann is always directing. >> when did youwell, yes. >> kathryn martin or c.m. knows her husband all too well. she is also his production and costume designer. >> was it love at first sight? >> he says that i was in love with him at first sight. >> i never said that. i never said that. she had gone to the same drama school, she was brilliantly talented. she tapped me on the shoulder and i turned around. and i looked at her and my first impression was wow, what an intense young girl. >> were you impressed by him right away? >> yes, by his incredible mental stamina and the way that he thought, and the unbelievable kind of energy and gymnastics that his mind could undertake. >> there is something that works, because some people say you're a little cra-cra as the kids say. >> translation is crazy. >> it's completely normal to us. we always live like this. i don't know any other life. >> what is that, when you say live like this? ♪ and may come a time when he needs a lawyer ♪ >> the circus-like sensory overload has come to define b

an audition with baz luhrmann is an experience and i walked into the room and there was three differenty. >> real intimate. >> yeah, really intimate. three cameras, two roaming photographers and then leonardo just reading all the lines of every part. >> yes. >> but you took control and did a little bit of improv at the end of the audition that might have gotten you the part. >> oh, i think that's the story that's been elaborated by baz but it says in the script that daisy kisses gatsby and in auditions you never -- you don't know if it's inappropriate so i asked baz should i kiss him and baz said yes, so i did, and now baz tells others the story that -- >> he said that's daisy buchanan. that's what it is. you, like tobey maguire, he was here the other day, and he had not read "the great gatsby" before this began. you did not read it until you learned about the audition but right after that you really crammed. >> yeah, well, i had -- i got a call asking if i had ever read it and i hadn't so i read it right two days before the audition. it was a very easy read, and so i read it and i did