Across The Universe
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Sat 19 January 2008 // 21:00
Sun 20 January 2008 // 21:00
Mon 21 January 2008 // 21:00
Tue 22 January 2008 // 21:00
(Sat 19th – Tue 22nd / 9pm / £4/3/2ttt)
(Julie Taymor / USA / 2007 / 35mm / 133 Mins / Cert 12A)
The basic premise of Julie Taymor's Across the Universe is well known: it's a musical, taking place in the 1960s, and all of the songs were composed and originally performed by The Beatles. However, despite appearances that the film is a re-hash of Yellow Submarine for the iPod generation, it is in fact much closer in spirit to the work of Dennis Potter, or Green & Comden's "Singin' in the Rain", than a cynical exercise in 60s nostalgia. As an examination of the rise of popular culture in the latter part of the 20th Century, the film's alter-60s is constructed not from 'real' history, but from pop history, pop iconography,
pop myth, pop music and pop riffs - it isn't too much of a stretch to say that the whole film takes place inside pop. And even though the real world has to take over sometimes, we ALL like to escape to that world sometimes ...
(Julie Taymor / USA / 2007 / 35mm / 133 Mins / Cert 12A)
The basic premise of Julie Taymor's Across the Universe is well known: it's a musical, taking place in the 1960s, and all of the songs were composed and originally performed by The Beatles. However, despite appearances that the film is a re-hash of Yellow Submarine for the iPod generation, it is in fact much closer in spirit to the work of Dennis Potter, or Green & Comden's "Singin' in the Rain", than a cynical exercise in 60s nostalgia. As an examination of the rise of popular culture in the latter part of the 20th Century, the film's alter-60s is constructed not from 'real' history, but from pop history, pop iconography,
pop myth, pop music and pop riffs - it isn't too much of a stretch to say that the whole film takes place inside pop. And even though the real world has to take over sometimes, we ALL like to escape to that world sometimes ...