‘The Tempest’ by Julie Taymor, With Helen Mirren - Review

NYTimes.com: "Messing around with Shakespeare is the bedeviling vice of directors. Saving him from their excesses is the great and noble duty of actors. This tension between extravagantly visionary stage (or screen) craft and disciplined acting may be the story of Shakespeare in our times. It is certainly present in the latest filmed version of “The Tempest,” directed (and also, according to the credits, written) by Julie Taymor.