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...Massively documented and celebrated as both artist and cult icon, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo might not seem to merit a new screen study — particularly after Julie Taymor’s deliriously self-indulgent 2002...
...Julie Taymor, the American theatre director famed for her Tony award-winning stage adaptation of The Lion King, describes the Rolex Mentor and Protégé initiative as “an extraordinary concept”....
...The Metropolitan Opera has had several notable productions of Die Zauberflöte, including one by David Hockney and the most recent from Julie Taymor, a 20-year success....
...Julie Taymor’s ardent, ambitious movie sees a giant life neatly chaptered. (The source material is Steinem’s 2015 memoir, My Life on the Road.) The child is mother of the woman....
...And though we hear snatches of Puccini’s music throughout, Hwang and director Julie Taymor have no poetry of their own to redeem that silliness....
...It all adds up to a conventional but slickly produced adaptation, which, unlike Julie Taymor’s The Lion King, avoids taking any great theatrical risks. If only the New York spring were so dependable....
...Her work, and that of Julie Taymor, who has staged an ever-morphing, high-tech production, make this 85-minute evening impressive....
...Julie Taymor’s direction of the Spider-man musical was excessively derided, so it is no surprise that her production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the inaugural show for Brooklyn’s $56.5m Polonsky...
...The U2 frontman helped write the music for Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man musical, which endured months of previews and broke Broadway budget records before finally opening in June 2011....
...Although the majority of this book deals with the greats of the literary canon, it is front-loaded with essays on pop culture – James Cameron’s 2009 movie Avatar, Julie Taymor’s musical version of Spider-Man...
...On the first day, only one woman, the director Julie Taymor, was scheduled to sit in discussion on the grey and red couches, out of 24 total speaker slots....
...There’s a moment in Julie Taymor’s gender-bent film of The Tempest when Helen Mirren seems to come down hard on “actors”....
...In Julie Taymor’s film of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, for “sea-changed” read “sex-changed”: Helen Mirren is Prospera, ruling her atoll with a will of iron and a steely coiffure as the Bard’s redemption drama...
...Taymor, its original director, writes the FT’s Gapper....
...Bono describes director Julie Taymor as a magician and a perfectionist. “With Julie, God and the Devil are in the details. Everything has to be right.”...
...Filmmaker Julie Taymor, adapting Shakespeare’s play, casts Helen Mirren as Prospero, renamed Prospera....
...The centepiece of the festival is – yet again – a Helen Mirren vehicle, Julie Taymor’s gender-transposed Tempest....
...Julie Taymor’s second Shakespeare film after Titus (she also directed Frida on screen and The Lion King on stage) is, by report, a bold experiment in gender-flipping, starring Helen Mirren as Prospera, a...
...Then, in prestigious position as the closing film at last month’s Venice Film Festival, came The Tempest, in which Mirren plays “Prospera” in Julie Taymor’s audacious, gender-bending version of Shakespeare...
...On Thursday, Julie Taymor’s popular staging of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte – complete with puppets – reopens at the Met in its full-length German version after an initial three performances in September....
...Julie Taymor’s fancy staging, first seen in 2004, remains a surrealistic mélange enlisting swooping geese, prancing bears, flying lobsters, balletic storks and a set by George Tsypin that traps the action...
...He told The New York Times that Julie Taymor’s Zauberflöte was an “abomination” predicated on “silly, glamorous, folkloric nonsense”....
...But Elliot Goldenthal and Julie Taymor’s version of John Gardner’s 1971 cult novel has set a standard in a city where spectacular trappings are sometimes confused with profundity....
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