You know why I enjoy having my buddy Flmlvr as a friend so much?

Because sometimes, it’s important to know what 14-year-old girls are excited about in the world of film, and no one is more in touch with the taste of 14-year-old girls than Flmlvr.

Not even Herc.

Tonight, I got an e-mail from Flmlvr that contained a link to a trailer that I’ve been waiting to see for a while now. I think Julie Taymor’s a heck of a filmmaker and an interesting visual artist in general. I’m not sure what I expected from her take on the Beatles catalog...

... but it wasn’t this.

It’s a little bit HAIR. It’s a little bit MOULIN ROUGE. It looks beautiful. But those songs carry such an emotional punch on their own that Taymor’s got to hope that she can contextualize them in a whole new way. Can we hear these songs again for the very first time? Can she make them feel fresh?

Time will tell, but for now, enjoy your first look at ACROSS THE UNIVERSE.

Drew McWeeny, Los Angeles