ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
DVD rip (2007)
Runtime: 2 hr 08 mins

Synopsis
A dock worker Jude travels to America 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. The film title and main characters are named after various songs by The Beatles. Written by MIB6116
Musical based on The Beatles songbook and set in the 60s England, America, and Vietnam. The love story of Lucy and Jude is intertwined with the anti-war movement and social protests of the 60s. Over 30 Beatles' songs are woven into the plot together with visual allusions to films Help! (1965), A Hard Day's Night (1964), Magical Mystery Tour (1967) (TV), Yellow Submarine (1968) and Let It Be (1970). Written by Steve Shelokhonov
An original musical film, Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, the struggle for free speech and civil rights, mind exploration and rock and roll. At once gritty, whimsical and highly theatrical, the story moves from high schools and universities in Massachusetts, Princeton and Ohio to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Detroit riots, Vietnam and the dockyards of Liverpool. A combination of live action and animation, the film is paired with many songs by The Beatles that defined the time.

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
SOUNDTRACK - DELUXE EDITION (2007)
320 KBPS

Given a track record littered by misfired oddities like the Bee Gees starring in the 1978 movie version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, successfully transforming The Beatles' epochal oeuvre into film musicals has been an elusive alchemy. Yet director Julie Taymor's 1968-centered, socio-political romance is more than just a stunning visual achievement. Its soundtrack brings a crucially intimate, emotionally engaging sensibility to its rich catalog of Beatles source material. Using an approach she rightly dubbed "organic," Taymor never gets too ambitious with the original arrangements, balancing the plaintive, often stark performances of central young stars Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood with equally compelling turns by supporting players Carol Woods and Joe Anderson. The stars successfully evoke early Beatlemania via the energetic charms of Sturgess' "All My Loving" and Wood's "It Won't Be Long," then get straight to the canon's often melancholy heart on his take of "In My Life," and her gentle cover of "Blackbird." Taymor's use of star turns--the entire point of too many Beatles-rooted projects--is as sparing as it is deft. Eddie Izzard's effusive "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" is the product of several edited improvisations, while U2's Bono and Edge re-imagine "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by way of Pink Floyd. Joe Cocker's swamp-dirge "Come Together" shows why he's long been one of the best interpreters of the Lennon-McCartney catalog, and Dana Fuchs alternately evokes the heavenly and hellish via her tender "Dear Prudence," as well as her manic, Joplin-channeling burn through "Helter Skelter." Elsewhere on the CD, Bono teams with Secret Machine for the straightforward "I Am the Walrus," while the Dallas indie rockers also take dream-pop turns on the instrumental "Flying" and George Harrison's haunting "Blue Jay Way." Remarkably, Taymor claims the bulk of the performances here were not lip-synced, but recorded live as the cameras rolled.

Disc 1
1. Girl Jim Sturgess 1:04
2. Hold Me Tight Evan Rachel Wood 2:35
3. All My Loving Jim Sturgess 2:26
4. I Want To Hold Your Hand T.V. Carpio 2:45
5. With A Little Help From My Friends Joe Anderson 3:11
6. It Won't Be Long Evan Rachel Wood 2:16
7. I've Just Seen A Face Jim Sturgess 1:50
8. Let It Be Carol Woods 3:46
9. Come Together Joe Cocker 4:27
10. If I Fell Evan Rachel Wood 2:38
11. Dear Prudence Dana Fuchs 5:18
12. Flying The Secret Machines 3:55
13. Blue Jay Way The Secret Machines 4:42

Disc 2
1. I Am The Walrus Bono 4:43
2. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite Eddie Izzard 2:40
3. Because Evan Rachel Wood 2:29
4. Something Jim Sturgess 2:59
5. Oh! Darling Dana Fuchs 2:29
6. Strawberry Fields Forever Jim Sturgess 3:37
7. Revolution Jim Sturgess 2:17
8. While My Guitar Gently Weeps Martin Luther McCoy 4:02
9. Across The Universe Jim Sturgess 3:27
10. Helter Skelter Dana Fuchs 3:41
11. Happiness Is A Warm Gun Joe Anderson 3:06
12. Black Bird Evan Rachel Wood 3:03
13. Hey Jude Joe Anderson 4:10
14. Don't Let Me Down Dana Fuchs 3:05
15. All You Need Is Love Jim Sturgess 3:17
16. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 4:23

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