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A Hard Day's Night
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A Hard Day's Night
MPI Home Video - © 1964 - 90 Minutes - B&W - Keepcase
"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 film, 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 that has become a standard for musicians today.
Now, decades later, the band's legendary popularity endures and continues to grow, and A Hard Day's Night joyfully resurrects the excitement of the group's early days. Highly acclaimed by both critics and film historians, the film is an uplifting trip back to the happy innocence of early Beatlemania, as well as a valuable treat for those who will experience the treasure for the first time.
This digital video disc features the Academy Award nominated A Hard Day's Night, as we've all come to know and love it, and also includes rare additional footage, newsreels, a theatrical trailer for the 1982 re-release, a revealing interview with director Richard Lester and, in its entirety, Lester's experimental film, Running, Jumping & Standing Still, a favorite of the Beatles that stars Peter Sellers. As a special bonus, the DVD version of A Hard Day's Night comes from a fully restored print made from the film's original negative, now available to home audiences for the first time."
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Includes rare additional footage, newsreels, theatrical trailer for the 1982 re-release of the film, an interview with Director Richard Lester and Lester's short "The Running, Jumping Standing Still Film" starring Peter Sellers.
Beatles Flic a First Class Presentation
This is the first of the Beatles films made. Presented in glorious Black & White, this 3:4 film is mastered from a newly restored copy of the original negative. This is clearly the best and most pristine copy of this film that can be found today.
Additionally, the film's original mono soundtrack has been augmented with stereo recordings of all of the musical numbers. While this may at first seem a bit distracting as the soundtrack does audibly shift when the songs are played, it is quickly overcome, and adds pleasantly to the production.
The extras are quite interesting and help to place the film in its time, an element that is quite important when viewing this trend-setting film. Additionally, Richard Lester's "The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film" is included. This short, experimental film was seen by the Beatles and led to them requesting Richard Lester as the director of their first film.
Review by Peter Sills
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