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The Beatles - The Making of A Hard Day's Night
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| Part No: | 6305073694 |
| Manufacturer: | MPI Home Video / Apple |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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A Hard Day's Night is "among the five best movie musicals I've ever seen," says Roger Ebert, "right up there with
Singin' in the Rain." That ringing endorsement of the most famous film from rock's most famous group, the Beatles, is only one of the testimonials recorded in
You Can't Do That: The Making of "A Hard Day's Night." This engrossing 1994 documentary is hosted by Phil Collins, who actually appeared in the original among a crowd of frenzied teenagers at the theater where the songs were filmed. There's plenty of behind-the-scenes footage, and producer Walter Shenson, director Richard Lester, and screenwriter Alun Owen, among others, contribute comments, which are occasionally punctuated by brief clips from the film (à la HBO's 1990s series
Dream On). Micky Dolenz, Roger McGuinn, and Beatles fans are also interviewed, and George Harrison's voice is heard briefly. Filmed at the height of Beatlemania shortly after their 1964 trip to the U.S.,
A Hard Day's Night was conceived as an excuse to release a soundtrack album. But while nine songs were written, only seven were used in the film, and for many fans the chief item of interest here will be the inclusion of one unused performance, "You Can't Do That," shown partially during the documentary, then in its entirety as an epilogue.
--David Horiuchi
| Ultimate Beatle Documentary | 2010-07-20 | 5 / 5 |
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| If you are any kind of a Beatles fan, this movie is a must see. It captures not only the joy of the music, but provides unique insight into the 4 'guys' who were the Beatles. It highlights there preeminent gifts as musicians, but also there individual and collective humors. Itis also very interesting to see how the movie was conceived and filmed, and how many of the quirky, surreal elements of the film came about. The movie was way ahead of it's time artistically, and this behind the scenes look is a great window into a film that, like the Beatles, was way ahead of it's time. |
| A Hard Day's Night Behind the Screen | 2009-09-24 | 5 / 5 |
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| Great insight into the making of a classic film. Very well done; factful let entertaining. Makes watching the actual film that much better. |
| Magical Mystery Tour and Help | 2008-01-07 | 4 / 5 |
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What is important here is both Help! and Magical Mystery Tour. Help! is from the same remastered 1.6 to 1 ratio source as on the new 2 disk set, however this is reduced from that original 1.6 British version to the 1.3 TV image ratio using side to side pan and scan. If you compare this to the new 2 disk set, you'll see that frame for frame the picture and sound is from the same remastered 1.6 source. So you have a choice between this hack job and the hack job on the new set. I prefer this full top to bottom view with the sides cut off in this version to the full side to side view with the top and bottom cut off (fake widescreen) on the new 2 disk set, but it is sad we have to choose between these two. Why they can't release the full 1.6 image is beyond comprehension.
Magical Mystery Tour is the main reason to get this set. It is remastered from the best possible prints of the film and there is no comparison between this beautifully remastered version and the piece of doo doo that is currently out there. The MMT disk also has two interesting vintage 1967 newsreels about The Beatles; their trip to India to study under MM Yogi and the opening of the Apple psychedelic boutique. Get a copy of these films if you can. |
| "For Those of [Us] in the Cheaper Seats, Clap Your Hands" [for an Affordable Beatles' Collection] | 2006-10-16 | 2 / 5 |
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| The value of this collection is in some ways priceless. "Imagine" a collection that could get us all five Beatles' films for an affordable price. The two-star rating isn't for the very good release, 'Help' or for the flawed, idiocyncratic, random, but sometimes groundbreaking and interesting 'Magical Mystery Tour' and all of the gravy of the accompanying "rockumentaries". Hopefully, the capitalist version of trickle down economics will materialize--the way it did for C.D. players and Walkman--when the prolitariat will be able to afford all five Beatles' (movie) DVD's, either separately or together. By the way, although the bickering on 'Let It Be' (not included here--or barely anywhere else) is legendary, so is the music. For those who have seen the last Beatle film, the strife is enlightening, but overrated. Can we have that movie, please? (For myself, I only saw it once: At a Mark Lapidos' Beatles' convention in 1980.) I hope trickle down theory works, and someday the rest of us will get the movies we want. |
| Inside story | 2005-09-20 | 5 / 5 |
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| What a great piece of film. I have to watch it during the day, because it gets me too charged up at night so that I can't sleep. Getting the producers and directors views on working so closely with the 4 are riveting. John has always been my favorite, and their are a lot of candid moments with him. This film shows they were/are human. LG |
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