A Hard Day's Night
starring: Lionel Blair, Wilfrid Brambell, Deryck Guyler, Kenneth Haigh, George Harrison
directed by: Lester, Richard
directed by: Lester, Richard
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Beatles
EAN: 9780788818318
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0788818317
Label: Miramax Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Miramax Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 1130
Studio: Miramax Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1964
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In 1964, the Beatles had just recently exploded onto the American scene with their debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' The group's first feature, the Academy Award-nominated 'A Hard Day's Night,' offered fans their first peek into a day in the life of the Beatles and served to establish the Fab Four on the silver screen, as well as to inspire the music video format. Songs: I'll Cry Instead, A Hard Day's Night, I Should've Known Better, Can't Buy Me Love, If I Fell, And I Love Her, I'm Happy Just to Dance with You, Ringo's Theme (This Boy), Tell Me Why, Don't Bother Me, I Wanna Be Your Man, All My Lovin', She Loves You.
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The Fab Four from Liverpool--John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr--in their first movie. Nobody expected A Hard Day's Night to be much more than a quick exploitation of a passing musical fad, but when the film opened it immediately seduced the world--even the stuffiest critics fell over themselves in praise (highbrow Dwight Macdonald called it 'not only a gay, spontaneous, inventive comedy but it is also as good cinema as I have seen for a long time'). Wisely, screenwriter Alun Owen based his script on the Beatles' actual celebrity at the time, catching them in the delirious early rush of Beatlemania: eluding rampaging fans, killing time on trains and in hotels, appearing on a TV broadcast. American director Richard Lester, influenced by the freestyle French New Wave and British Goon Show humor, whips up a delightfully upbeat circus of perpetual motion. From the opening scene of the mop tops rushing through a train station mobbed by fans, the movie rarely stops for air. Some of the songs are straightforwardly presented, but others ('Can't Buy Me Love,' set to the foursome gamboling around an empty field) soar with ingenuity. Above all, the Beatles express their irresistible personalities: droll, deadpan, infectiously cheeky. Better examples of pure cinematic joy are few and far between. --Robert Horton
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- HARD to believe- NIGHT and DAYI saw the 1982 re-issue of this film at CARNEGIE HALL's cinema in NYC--the sound on that presentation ... Read More
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- Good enough for me at this price!Good quality film and acceptable sound on the first disc.
As for the second disc, the interviews ... Read More
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- For Beatles Fans and Lovers of Pop MusicA Hard Day's Night is not a "movie" in the conventional sense. It doesn't really have a plot. It allows viewers ... Read More
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- Pure nostalgic joy and dreamlike pleasureWhen you are dealing with a myth you have to look for what was new at the time when that myth appeared. And the Beatles ... Read More
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- Just a lot of fun!!!Just a lot of fun to watch and listen to the fab four in those early years.
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