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THE TEMPEST is Julie Taymor’s second big-screen Shakespeare film adaptation. TITUS ANDRONICUS was her first, which became her 1999 film TITUS, starring Anthony Hopkins. The drama/fantasy will be in ...

This is a big-screen movie, shot and heard in close-up ... contemporary English – look for Paul Mazursky’s 1982 film “Tempest” (which features Raul Julia doing a musical interlude with ...

In Writer, Producer, and Director Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest", the main character is now a woman named Prospera (Dame Helen Mirren). Going back to the sixteenth or seventeenth century ...

Titus was one of my all-time favorite movie adaptations of a Shakespeare play, which left me with high hopes for Taymor’s Tempest. And when I saw that Helen “god of acting” Mirren was ...

See About archive blog posts. In Julie Taymor’s version of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” the lead character Prospero has been transformed into a woman, Prospera (Helen Mirren), a queen who ...

In The Tempest, Mirren switches up the gender of ... I saw the trailers for this movie and was just positively beside myself with how exciting it was that there was going to be a female Prospero.

MILAN (AP) - The Venice Film Festival says this year’s edition will close with Julie Taymor’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” The movie by the American director will make its ...

In the face of “The Tempest,” the stormy tragicomedy of rage ... fed off the tempestuous artist’s rich folk-art style, the movie was at the end of the day a relatively traditional biopic.