Some anniversaries get a shrug and a steelbook. This one gets an orchestra. Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet is coming back for its 30th anniversary, and instead of the usual theatrical re-run, it's heading to concert halls, where the film screens live alongside a performance of its soundtrack. You can read the full details over at MSN's coverage.

If you were anywhere near a radio in 1996, the movie was inescapable. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes falling in love across a neon-soaked Verona Beach, gas stations doubling as dueling grounds, Des'ree and Garbage and Radiohead stacked on a soundtrack that basically soundtracked the entire second half of the decade for a certain kind of teenager. The film-with-live-orchestra format has been good to titles like Home Alone and La La Land in recent years, and Luhrmann's maximalist style fits it perfectly. The man has never met a montage he couldn't crank to eleven. Hearing those strings and that choir swell while the actual movie plays in a big room sounds like the intended experience all along.

Thirty years, by the way. I'll let you sit with that the same way I had to.

What made the original work was never the Shakespeare, it was the velocity. Luhrmann took text that every high schooler half-knew by osmosis and shot it like a music video before anyone had decided that was a bad thing. The costumes, the production design, the fish tank meet-cute. It's a movie that swings big and occasionally misses, and the misses are part of the charm. A restoration and concert treatment rewards exactly that kind of maximalism, because there's so much on the screen and in the mix to pull forward.

Dates and cities should roll out through the anniversary window, so if this is your comfort movie, keep an eye on your local concert hall listings the way you'd watch for a tour announcement. Because functionally that's what this is: a tour, and the band is one of the best soundtracks of the nineties.

Will I be there? I just have to talk Jess Wingo into going with me, because she owes me after I sat through a three-hour director's cut with her last month and didn't complain once. Well. Once. If you see a grown man mouthing every word of the balcony scene while an orchestra plays behind Leo, mind your business.