This radical advancement of the concert documentary receives a superlative transfer from the Criterion Collection.
This 4K disc renders the ragged, antic beauty of Richard Lester’s delirious Beatlemania caper in all its splendor.
If you’re in a band, the Beatles taught you everything, whether you know it (or admit it) or not.
With its chintzy synths, plastic horns, and feather-lite reggae and lifeless white-guy funk, the album might as well be made up of outtakes recorded 30 years ago.
Even when songs simply play over disconnected footage of the Beatles having fun, the strength of their songcraft is stirring.
It stands as a crucial flashpoint for the Beatles’s cultural takeover and a pervasive influence on contemporary musicals and music videos.
After this, Ringo’s gonna need Werner Herzog to make his life story interesting.
That the film shines scant illuminating light on Harrison’s story is all the more frustrating for its immense length.
Expectedly, Y Not is harmless.
The most audacious thing about writer-director Peter Rodger’s Oh My God may be its appallingly bad taste.