Titus

Taymor creates a spectacularly imaginative piece of Shakespearean cinema set in a world out of time.

"...Directed by: Julie Taymor. Starring: Harry J. Lennix, Laura Fraser, James Frain,..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Left Luggage

"...far cry from the tongueless Lavinia she played in Julie Taymor's Titus. As Chaya, the teenage daughter of Holocaust..."

April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frida

"...Directed by: Julie Taymor. Starring: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Across the Universe

Julie Taymor takes the timelessness of the Beatles' music and yanks it earthward into a minefield of literalism.

"...Directed by: Julie Taymor. Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson,..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2000

"...Directed by: Julie Taymor. Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Colm..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lion King

The cast of this touring production of Disney's The Lion King performs with such skill and fullness of spirit that the show soars on an uplifting freshness

"...of the 1994 animated feature, it feels like director Julie Taymor was determined to treat the story like a..."

March 16, 2007 Arts Review by Robert Faires

When is a lion an ape?

Disney turned The Lion King into the 800-pound gorilla of Broadway musicals, which means it can sleep anywhere it wants, and the Lion sleeps tonight in Bass Concert Hall

"...forget what a huge risk Disney took in hiring Julie Taymor – known chiefly as an experimental, even noncommercial..."

Feb. 16, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Short Cuts

Festival news from around the globe, as pertaining to Austin's little chunk of it.

"...According to the report, Levitch "invited 130 guests including Julie Taymor, Susan Sontag" and others aboard a double-decker bus..."

May 16, 2003 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Articulations

The stage musical version of The Lion King finally lands in Texas, and even four years into its Broadway run, the show still truly creates a world of wonders.

"...translating the successful animated film to the stage, director Julie Taymor expanded The Lion King's scope to make Africa..."

July 19, 2002 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Get the Green Light

Producer Sarah Green is a rare breed

"...multiplatform artists as David Mamet (Oleanna, American Buffalo) and Julie Taymor (Frida). "I really appreciate working outside the system,..."

April 26, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Coriolanus

Ralph Fiennes directs this terrific contemporary update of Shakespeare's timeless play about war.

"...– a clever gambit that was similarly deployed in Julie Taymor's hyperambitions Titus a decade-plus back. John Logan (Gladiator),..."

March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Review: The Lion King Roars Strong

The Disney theatrical adaptation is a Bass hit

"...Lion King will always be seen as original director Julie Taymor's production. It's driven by her melding of the..."

April 12, 2022 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Releases First Wave of Panels

The Mr. Robot crew are back

"...Green, best known for her work with Terrence Malick, Julie Taymor, and John Sayles. Green currently wrapped up working..."

Oct. 20, 2015 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

The Sunny Side to Every Situation

Defending Ethan Hawke and the virtues of John Wayne in a wet shirt

"...I’d argue the cast of Julie Taymor’s Titus was also uniformly excellent – Sir Anthony’s..."

Aug. 21, 2008 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Your Weekend in Film

More than mere faces in the crowd

"...The Magic Flute like you’ve never seen it before. Julie Taymor’s stylish take on Mozart’s opera, screening Saturday, graces..."

Oct. 12, 2017 Screens Post by The Screens Staff

Shakespeare's First Folio

Why the first collection of the Bard's plays is such a big deal and cause to celebrate on his 400th death anniversary

"...and the Bard, focusing on interpretations of Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, and Prokofiev, along with Bernstein's adaptation,..."

March 18, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Boy Wonder at 100

Alamo Drafthouse screens Orson Welles centennial retrospective

"...critics, biographers, and filmmakers, including Richard Linklater, Steven Spielberg, Julie Taymor, William Friedkin, and Welles intimates Henry Jaglom and..."

April 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'War Horse'

An inanimate steed of aluminum and cane Handsprings to life in this award-winning drama

"...full advantage of theatricality to tell the tale. As Julie Taymor did with the Disney musical, stage directors Marianne..."

May 2, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

DVDanger: 'Dark Touch' / 'Argento's Dracula'

Two very different dances with Irish Gothic

"...seminal Argento works as Suspiria and Tenebre, and later Julie Taymor's Titus, can make something so ugly is astounding...."

Feb. 1, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Happy Bard Day!

'Living With Shakespeare' helps you manage Will-ophilia

"...frustration at seeing Baz Lurhmann's film of Romeo and Juliet with a cinema full of clueless teens and local..."

April 23, 2013 Books Post by Robert Faires

'The Lion King' Is a Feast For the Eyes

But lackluster performances dampen this touring production

"...something was missing. This national touring production of the Julie Taymor-directed musical adaptation of the 1994 Disney classic, with..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Arts Post by Eli Black

Lila Downs

"...Pecados y Milagros: On second thought, better call in Julie Taymor...."

March 16, 2012 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Gift Guide: Film Criticism

New reads from two titans in film scholarship

"...Catherine Breillat, Tamara Jenkins, Barbara Kopple, Deepa Mehta, and Julie Taymor. And though the rightfully lauded editor Walter Murch..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Original of the Species

U2 3D

"...stylists like Michel Gondry (The Science of Sleep) or Julie Taymor (Frida) to sidle up to the concessions counter...."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Top 10 (plus one) Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2007

'Chronicle' Arts Editor Robert Faires recalls 2007, in the theatre

"...tour has done nothing to dim the wonder of Julie Taymor's visionary reinvention of the animated film. The blend..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin at FringeNYC: Big Apple Bouquets

Austin's three entries in this year's New York International Fringe Festival earned some real attention, ranging from the respectable to the rave

"...brutal fable into a strikingly theatrical feast. Reminiscent of Julie Taymor's reconception in Titus, director Sonnet Blanton and actor..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Good Show

It was a good year -- not a great one -- for the Toronto International Film Festival.

"...might have been expected from the visually flamboyant director Julie Taymor. As it stands, Frida is a solid biopic..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Something Wicked This Way Comes ... Again!

Dueling Macbeths on the stages of Austin prove once again this Shakespearean killer's undying popularity.

"...but then a few weeks before we opened, the Julie Taymor film opened in town. But that didn't hurt..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Billy Shakes, Superstar

"...Dream (directed by Michael Hoffman), Titus Andronicus (directed by Julie Taymor), and Love's Labours Lost (directed by longtime Bard..."

April 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires