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...into, that’s what gave me that kind of buzz.” Although he would consider professional theatrical acting in the future, Sturgess’s breakthrough was his role in the film “Across the Universe,” director Julie Taymor??s tribute to the Beatles. He awed audiences with both his acting and singing. For the young star, both talents are equally important. “I have been writing music and playing music and been in bands since I was about fifteen. I’ve never...
Watching Frida, the new biopic of the famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, it’s difficult to not remember director Julie Taymor??s last effort, the much-lauded big-budget adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus. That film was notable for, if nothing else, its brash and overwrought self-indulgence; it was a true exercise in almost surreal stylization. It marked Taymor as a new visual force in American cinema and was simultaneously criticized for its over-the-top severity. Strangely enough, the occasionally laughable audacity of Titus is sorely missed in this lush but uninspired...
...flaw that colors everything in the film, however, is Taymor??s hesitant and wobbly direction. While the ballsy Titus knew well that it was visually arresting and never forgot, Frida oscillates nervously between an intense visual palette and boring displays of ho-hum period cinematography and horrendously contrived narrative set-ups that bore more than they evoke. Early in the film, the trolley crash that renders Kahlo periodically unable to walk is shot and edited with a shocking visceral quality and a brash artistic confidence. Immediately after, Taymor gives us a shamelessly trippy, grotesque animated sequence that quite...
...flames of university seminars, there seems to be no getting rid of Titus. While critics have been lambasting, deriding and disowning the play for ages, few deny that it wields a kind of nasty power. Productions of Titus, from Peter Brooks’ over-stylized 1955 staging to Julie Taymor??s millennia-hopping 1995 Broadway version (preserved for posterity in her surreal, hilarious film adaptation of 1999), seem to be perpetually in vogue. And now a tough and towering Titus takes the Loeb Theater Mainstage on Friday for a two-week...
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