For Bloomsday

Getting to the Heart of a Joycean Masterpiece
By ANDY WEBSTER
Published: June 10, 2012

Opens on Monday in Brooklyn.
Directed by Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna

1 hour 20 minutes; not rated

Bloomsday — June 16, the day of the events in James Joyce’s masterpiece “Ulysses” — approaches and with it the release of Alan Adelson and Kate Taverna’s documentary “In Bed With Ulysses,” a film that strips away the academic clutter surrounding that kaleidoscopic novel to reveal the vital human pulse between its lines. It does so with staged readings of the livelier passages (not, I emphasize, re-creations of them), period footage and insightful commentators (including the Irish novelists Colum McCann and Edna O’Brien), not to mention humor and a palpable enthusiasm. Moar