A Double-layered Nostalgia: ‘The Sixties,’ the Iraq War and The Beatles in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe (2007)
In 2007 Revolution Studios released renowned theatre and opera director Julie Taymor’s Beatles musical Across the Universe. Taymor and fellow writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais used 33 Beatles’ songs to form a story of young bohemians…