Across the Universe

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Call Number: Blu-ray Musical Across
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Musical Across	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Blu-ray Disc.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features: Extended musical performances; deleted scene; commentary with director Julie Taymor and music producer/composer Elliot Goldenthal; 5 behind-the-scenes featurette; Don Nace art gallery; featuring drawings from the film.
Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson.
Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
DVD, anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, 1080p High Definition ; (Special features: High Definition; Dolby Digital stereo).
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

A treat for the eye and ear submitted by cherylo on July 15, 2013, 10:42pm The general premise is that it's a musical constructed from Beatles Songs. Bono and Eddie Izzard make appearances as a psychedelic guru-figure and Mr. Kite respectively. Joe Cocker appears as a triple character, one of whom is as a pimp sporting an impossibly-wide purple shirt collar. The choreography was amazing and fun. I totally ate it up. A while back, I tried Moulin Roluge. I wanted desperately to like it. It was visually and auditorially stunning. But I didn't like it. It took me a while to puzzle the difference out. MR is at its heart a tragedy. It's central theme can be boiled down to "Isn't tragedy BEAUTIFUL" (cue back of hand to forehead). You really don't see the characters making connections with each other. AtU, though, is ultimately a comedy in the Shakespearian sense; it has a happy ending. But you're not always sure it's going to go that way. There is a strange detour into psychedelia, ushered in by the aforementioned Bono's interesting rendition of I am the Walrus, which is ultimately a side show. There are hints of songs that don't appear (Sexy Sadie comes to mind, and boy was she), echoes of events in the Beatles' professional and personal lives (the last sequence involves a concert on a rooftop that is very obviously a reference to the famous Get Back performance reel), characters named transparently to refer to various songs (Jude, Lucy, Prudence, etc.), and *lot* of eye candy. The singing is pretty good to excellent. If you like The Beatles, Moulin Rouge was a near miss for you, or you don't find happy endings automatically shallow, give Across the Universe a look and a listen.

Perfect Fit submitted by rmhawkins on July 20, 2014, 9:23pm This is an incredible movie! From the first time I watched this film, I thought it was something special. The plot flows together perfectly, which is all the more impressive considering the movie was formed around songs which were decades older than it. While some people critiqued this movie and their use of the Beatles catalog, I was quite impressed by this film and think it is worth a watch whether or not you are a big Beatles fan.