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Genres:
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Comedy /
Music /
Music
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Director:
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Richard Lester
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Actors:
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George Harrison,
Norman Rossington,
Victor Spinetti,
Wilfrid Brambell,
John Junkin,
Anna Quayle,
Deryck Guyler,
John Lennon,
Paul McCartney,
Ringo Starr
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Duration:
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87 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)87
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Plot Summary:
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A HARD DAY'S NIGHT presents a fictionalized daylight in the vitality of The Beatles as they inform on a doing on a live telly show. Filmed just a month after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964, this videotape introduces us to the unique personalities of each member of the Beatles. The film opens with the band boarding a instruct crowded with adoring adolescent fans (mostly women) as they take a crack at to travel to the box studio in London. The antics of the band during rehearsals and makeup application provide a large part of the droll material in this special attrac... tion, all the same there are other moments of pure stack. The unscripted vignette featuring a hangover-pain Ringo is outstandingly funny, particularly when he is arrested and risks having to lass the flaming video receiver transmit. Nil of this goes unnoticed by the director of the show, played about Victor Spinetti, a recurring cast fellow in Beatles movies. As the clock ticks away dramatically, our heroes manage to unloose Ringo from send down and grass onto the stage in the purloin of time, charmed in the education that they have on the agenda c trick not quite driven the director fanatical in the process. Arguably the word go music video still made, this faux documentary and its shooting style secure been a tremendous influence on nearly every swing and summersault feature since.
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A Hard Day's Night
"...As a vehicle in the interest the mop-tops' schoolboy jokes and all-smiles-and-screams gig, it's transmissible ..."
A Hard Day's Night
At a time when Elvis and Cliff were pacify making antiquated-style musicals, this foregoer of the modern music video smashed the mould. Satirising the boundless round of banal inquisition, petty regulation and screaming adoration to which the Fab Four were subjected, this musical odyssey enabled them to mock authority and avoid excise without allowing such anti-company rebelliousness to detract from the working-class respectability of their "Mop Top" image. Anyway, Richard Lester's film is not lawful a homage to Buster Keaton-tastefulness slapstick and Busby Berkeley-mode unreasonable spectacle; it's also a handbook of late-model-wave obscure techniques, from Federico Fellini and the nouvelle hardly to Free Cinema and the Czech Film Miracle.
A Hard Day's Night
"...[A] high-speed-aroused screenplay and the...Beatles' charismatic acting....Irresistible..." -- Rating: A+
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