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| ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (2007) |
I’m a sucker for great movie musicals.
There’s something about watching a film in which the story’s main characters suddenly burst into beautifully crafted songs expressing broad, sweeping emotions that they otherwise wouldn’t or couldn’t express.
Unfortunately, the golden age of movie musicals is long gone. While musicals still flourish on Broadway, they’ve all but vanished from the big screen – save for short-lived revivals of the genre that sometimes produce one or two memorable films.
Recent Broadway hits have, indeed, spawned great film musical comedies, including “Hairspray” and “The Producers.” And word has it that Oscar-winning British director Tom Hooper is planning a screen version of the award-winning musical “Les Miserables.”
Among the few recent musicals to grace the screen is also one of the most unusual and one of my favorites – “Across the Universe” from 2007, stage director Julie Taymor’s imaginative, original musical that uses classic songs from the Beatles’ catalog to tell a moving love story.
