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22 de jun. de 2015 · Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream: Directed by Julie Taymor. With Kathryn Hunter, David Harewood, Tina Benko, Max Casella. Filmed version of Julie Taymor's live theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare's romantic comedy about young lovers and magical sprites.
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- Comedy
- Julie Taymor
- 2015-06-22
- A Play and A Film
- Kathryn Hunter, Genius
- Multiethnic and International
- § One Response to Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’S Dream: A Review of The Film
Because MND is so much about the theatre itself, it is not a surprise that Taymor has eschewed the location shoots she adopted for her previous Shakespeare films – Titus and The Tempest. This film records her production inside the theatre where it was performed live, capturing the visual splendor and relentless inventiveness for which she is known,...
Both the production and the film are completely built around the performance of the remarkable Kathryn Hunter as Puck. She opens the film as an exhausted sleeper drifting off into dreams, and when the rude mechanicals (as modern dress Brooklyn construction workers) show up and cut her bed free she literally drifts into the grid above the stage like...
The production is especially interesting in the realm of the supernatural, where Taymor’s visual genius prevails, while the “real” world is more mundane. Unfortunately that is not just because the visual presentation is more restrained. It seems the interpretive act was just less interesting to Taymor. The lovers were trivialized, with only Mandi M...
» Taymor’s film of MIDSUMMER announces additional showings in NYC, and around the US Shakespeare's Tribe says: July 26, 2015 at 8:59 am […] I reviewed this film earlier. My review is available here...
7 de jan. de 2014 · She’s conjured up Shakespeare’s most imaginative comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in an empty black box theater with a budget that’s a fraction of her previous productions (her controversial Spider-Man cost $75 million; her Midsummer cost a mere $2.4 million).
Julie Taymor on Her Film Version of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Perfection is rarely achieved in movies, but this heaven-sent concert doc hits the sweet spot.
28 de mai. de 2015 · The maverick director offers one of the most exciting and sumptuous feats of Shakespeare on film through shrewd use of documentary form. The film captures Taymor’s acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream during its limited run at the Polonsky Center in Brooklyn, New York.
8 de set. de 2014 · Julie Taymor's lauded recent New York production of William Shakespeare's joyous comedy of love and enchantment is given deluxe filmed treatment. By David Rooney. September 8, 2014 4:25pm. Kathryn ...
Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Of all Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most phantasmagorical, with fairies, spells and hallucinatory lovers. Julie Taymor turns out a production that's visually breathtaking, funny, sexy, and darkly poetic.
