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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303823362 Format: Black & White, HiFi Sound, Special Edition, NTSC ISBN: 630382336X Label: Mpi Home Video Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Mpi Home Video Release Date: October 31, 1995 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: Mpi Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 11, 1964 Sales Rank: 17050 Related Items: Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - LOVE IT!!!I bought this Beatles DVD set for my father for Christmas. He has called me twice telling me how much he enjoys this set. I would highly recommend it to any Beatles fan! Rating:  - 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 was HORRENDOUS--screechy and tinny--like a bad DRIVE-IN theatre speaker! This DVD is just a shambles too--similar poor dynamic range,flat,compressed,lifeless sound. THE BEATLES sounding like THIS? I'll take other reviewers words regarding chopped-off cropping of the picture as well (I don't own the previous AHDN video editions to do my own A/B comparison). I'm shocked this was allowed to happen on ... Read More Rating: - Good enough for me at this price!Good quality film and acceptable sound on the first disc. As for the second disc, the interviews with various tangiential players is for the most part fascinating, above all that with George Martin, although he comes off a bit snobbish. Among other pieces of knowledge he imparts, he explains the significance of "Can't Buy Me Love" and its twelve-bar blue structure. It's a bit surprising how little he thinks of some of the other hits, such as "I'm Happy Just to Dance with You." Read More Rating: - 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 to tag along at the height of the Beatles' early popularity and get a real sense of the power and charm of their music. No one had ever had such an impact on music and youth culture before them, and probably no one since. This film gives a glimpse of how they regarded their phenomenal fame: whimsically and with humorous irreverence. They just set out to make music and have fun and accidentally ... Read More Rating: - 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 are such a myth. This film reveals the fabric the myth is made of. Pure cinematographic and even photographic silk. The four boys have to be running because at the time everything young and new was on the run since it was chased by the establishment in order to be pilloried and exposed. But it also had to show how these four young men had to be able to capture the attention of other people and ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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