For the past four weeks, Anton Monsted has been living in the past. Literally the past, as Monsted, music supervisor to Baz Luhrmann, bunkers down in an editing suite at Sydney’s Fox Studios, where he is putting the finishing touches on the joyous, propulsive and above all large, soundtrack for Luhrmann’s latest extravaganza Elvis, set in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. But this month has also been a journey through Monsted’s own memories, too, something he explains while he ferries me across the labyrinthine back lot in a golf cart.
On the right, Monsted points out the building where he assisted Luhrmann as a 21-year-old, while the director was writing . That was before Fox Studios existed and before Baz Luhrmann was a household name. In fact – a full-circle moment – it was only because Monsted came across a copy of the 1994 guest-edited by Luhrmann while on holiday that he ever encountered the filmmaker at all. At
