A Hard Day's Night
by Lester, Richard
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Actor: Deryck Guyler, George Harrison, Kenneth Haigh, Lionel Blair, Wilfrid BrambellDirector: Lester, Richard
Brand: Beatles
Primary Contributor: George Harrison
Primary Contributor: John Lennon
Primary Contributor: McCartney, Paul
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Miramax Entertainment
DVD Reviews of A Hard Day's Night
DVD Review: Beatles at it's best!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie brings back the memories. It is high quality. I find myself singing along. Love it!DVD Review: For it's time...
Summary: 5 Stars
For it's time this was cutting edge cinema. I couldn't begin to count the breakthrough shots. It has lost little to time. The music is infectious, and while a tribute to teen idols it is never cloying. Probably the most startling thing about it is how tame the Beatles and their music are now. When the film was shot, many in this country considered them dangerous radicals. You can't go wrong buying this DVD. The smile won't leave your faces for days.DVD Review: A Hard Days Night
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Beatles film. They were so young and full of life. The music is classic Beatles.DVD Review: 2 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
If your idea of a enjoyable movie is 100 minutes of hanging out with the Beatles, by all means watch this movie, but if you want a little bit more than a glorified home video whose idea of characterization is assigning each Beatle a single trait, watch something else.
DVD Review: The Boys
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this movie, sound was good, not great. I wish the special features had more of the Fab Four, studio takes, etc.
Description of A Hard Day's Night
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.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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