While making Elvis, Luhrmann heard rumours of footage shot for two 1970s concert films that had never been released. With some considerable effort, researchers managed to track down 59 hours of preserved film negative – all 69 boxes of it – sitting untouched for decades in Warner Bros vaults beneath the salt mines of Kansas. …Visually, it’s extraordinary: colours explode off the screen; every sequin, every bead of sweat, every streak of mascara catches the light like diamonds on velvet. As for the shows themselves, they are electrifying, and Luhrmann, surprisingly, has the restraint to let them breathe. The Vegas residency footage catches Presley at his most hyperactive – swivelling, gyrating, goofing, draping himself across the stage, drenched in sweat, holding absolutely nothing back. Backstage between sets with Cary Grant and Sammy Davis Jr, or in the rehearsal studio practising Beatles numbers “Yesterday” and “Something”, he seems barely to be working at all. “Suspicious Minds” at full throttle suggests otherwise. A cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” stops you cold.-The Independent

“…a boisterously enjoyable watch even for Elvis agnostics.”-Observer UK