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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Oh there's a twisted guitar. How... quaint
Genre: Comedy Music (UK)
Starring: The Beatles - John, Paul, George and Ringo (Help!), Wilfrid Brambell ("Steptoe and Son • The Three Lives of Thomasina)
Directed By: Richard Lester (Superman II • Superman III)
Overview: The first film featuring the Beatles revolves around a couple of days in their lives as they get ready for a show. Paul's grandfather tags along, but he turns out to be a real mixer, making a Hard Day even harder.
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Surly and busty. What else could a film need?
Performance: 6 Cinematography: 7 Script: 6 Plot: 6 Mood: 7
Overall Rating: 64% (Hard On The Brain... Anytime)
Aftertaste:
When I say the best part was the end credits, I don't mean to be ... vituperative... because it's the truth. During those final credits we see black and white, close-up, low-key solo portraits of each of The Beatles. It was a pleasure to see, a nostalgic moment akin to finding glossy Time Magazine photos of Marilyn Monroe or Albert Einstein, it's neat. And for as much as Hard Day's Night isn't meant to be profound in any sense, I did feel moments of the sting of what would come, knowing that George died of lung cancer and the tragic way that John Lennon was killed. Watching A Hard Day's Night brings us back to The Beatles before that tragic day, before the turmoil, before Yoko!
Shubhajit, you make a hell of a good point. Everything you said, I see exactly what you're talking about. Sadly had I seen this in the 60s, it would have been new and different, but I grew up with MuchMusic (Canada's version of MTV) and, well, I'm over it. As for nouvelle vague, you're right, it did have that feel, under it all.
Thanks Shubhajit!
"John playing with pop bottles up his nose..." I think you missed the point... "John is snorting Coke!" Its kinda how you missed the point of the whole movie. This movie is endless sight gags, witticisms, and just charming through and through. I can't watch this movie without a big grin on my face.
great. If I was 16 I'd think it was hilarious.
Wonderful writeup. But I feel you've been a bit too harsh on the movie. It wasn't just one of the earliest films to infuse MTV-style music video sensibilities into a movie, by choosing to be freewheeling, improvisation and even subversive (what with its self-deprecating humour), the movie even managed to be in the tradition of the Nouvelle Vague output, the then-craze among intellectuals and cinephiles alike. Everyone expected it to be nothing more than following the Fab Four with a pair of cameras. Instead, the director made the movie his own through all the farcical gags, wit, play, playfulness and even some surreality. A Hard Day's Night was brilliant and audacious film for me.