Wed Jul 22, 7:30 pm @ Martha's Vineyard Film Center
$15 General Admission, $12 Member, $10 child (age 14 or younger)
Doors open for admissions 30 minutes prior to screening. Buy tickets at The Film Center or online now
Followed by an in-person discussion with director Julie Taymor and composer Elliot Goldenthal
The songs of the Beatles provide the sonic framework for this musical tale of romance, war and peace. Taymor’s wildly inventive musical re-imagines America in the turbulent late 1960s through the eyes of young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess), who leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the US, where he falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a rich but sheltered American girl, and finds himself swept up by the waves of change that are reshaping the nation, including the growing anti-war movement in Greenwich Village. As political tensions spiral, the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.
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Julie Taymor is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy and Tony Award winning director whose productions range from musicals and Shakespeare plays to classical operas and films. Taymor has been hailed as one of the most imaginative and provocative directors and designers working in the arts today. Past projects include The Lion King, Frida, Across the Universe, and The Glorias.
Composer Elliot Goldenthal creates works for film, orchestra, theater, opera, and ballet. Goldenthal received an Academy Award for his score for Frida and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his music for Interview with the Vampire and Michael Collins. Other films include Heat, The Butcher Boy, Alien 3, Drugstore Cowboy and The Glorias. In 2026, his ballet, Othello, was performed by The American Ballet Theatre at the Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center. In 2024, Goldenthal was honored with the Lifetime achievement Award by the World Soundtrack Awards.
