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Julie Taymor
Blu-ray Review: ‘The Piano,’ ‘Frida’ Showcase Unforgettable Female Performances
Submitted by mattmovieman on February 1, 2012 - 8:30amCHICAGO – Jane Campion and Julie Taymor are two of the most fascinating directors in modern cinema. They are unafraid to take major gambles, and their audacity has occasionally caused their projects to derail. But on a good day, they are capable of achieving artistic transcendence on a grand scale, as evidenced in Campion’s 1993 masterwork, “The Piano,” and Taymor’s 2002 gem, “Frida.”
Blu-Ray Review: Julie Taymor’s ‘The Tempest’ Redeemed By Excellent Extras
Submitted by mattmovieman on September 29, 2011 - 4:14amCHICAGO – Risk-taking visionaries are always exciting to watch in action, even when their gambles don’t quite pay off. Yet while the recent projects tackled by Julie Taymor have sported great promise on paper, their externalized metaphors often work against the material she’s aiming to enhance. In her Beatles musical “Across the Universe,” soldiers were seen carrying the Statue of Liberty into Vietnam while singing, “She’s so heavy.”
