Direction: Julie Taymor

Direction Julie Taymor

Cast Evan Rachel Wood · Jim Sturgess · Joe Anderson · Bono

Synopsis Across the Universe (2007) is a musical romance set against the backdrop of the 1960s counterculture. The story follows Jude, a young dockworker from Liverpool, who travels to America in search of his estranged father. There, he befriends a group...

Direction Julie Taymor

Cast Salma Hayek · Alfred Molina · Mía Maestro · Roger Rees

Synopsis This film tells the true story of Mexican painter and 20th century icon Frida Kahlo (Hayek), focusing on her often rocky relationship with husband Diego Rivera (Molina), and their place in Mexican society. Included in the mix will be David...

Direction Julie Taymor

Cast Julianne Moore · Alicia Vikander · Bette Midler · Janelle Monáe

Synopsis An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women’s rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the world, Steinem has made an everlasting mark on modern...

Direction Julie Taymor

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Jessica Lange · Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Alan Cumming

Synopsis In Titus (1999), a visually striking adaptation of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," the triumphant Roman general Titus returns from war with captive Queen Tamora and her sons. When Titus sacrifices her eldest son, Tamora vows revenge, setting off a cycle of...

Direction Julie Taymor

Cast Helen Mirren · Djimon Hounsou · Chris Cooper · David Strathairn

Synopsis In her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's mystical thriller "The Tempest," Academy Award(R)-nominated Julie Taymor ("Across the Universe," "Frida," "Titus") brings an original dynamic to the story by changing the gender of the sorcerer Prospero into the sorceress Prospera, portrayed by...

Direction Julie Taymor

Cast Kathryn Hunter · David Harewood · Tina Benko · Max Casella

Synopsis An immersive cinematic record of Julie Taymor’s virtuosic stage production of Shakespeare’s immortal fantasy. A live-stage reproduction from the mind of award-winning director Julie Taymor ('The Lion King' on Broadway, Frida, Titus). A Shakespeare adaptation with Taymor's trademark creativity, this...

Direction Julie Taymor

Cast Michael J. Anderson · Mireille Mosse · Paul Kandel · Patrick Breen

Synopsis A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge.