The Beatles play themselves in this masterpiece of rock n' roll cinema, produced in the weeks following the Fab Four's return from their triumphant first trip to the US. Intended to cash in on the sudden worldwide outbreak of Beatlemania, the band enlisted director Richard Lester and writer Alun Owen to fashion a film of a fictionalized day in the life of the group as they travel from Liverpool to London for a televised performance, all while dealing with screaming fans, pressing media, pesky management, and Paul's Grandfather. Now an immensely entertaining time-warp to 1964, A Hard Day's Night was also groundbreaking in it's freestyle incorporation of cinematic techniques of the day, practically inventing the modern music video in the process. Beloved by Beatles fans and critics, it has been referred to by Andrew Sarris as "the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals", and by Roger Ebert as "one of the great life-affirming movies".
Sept 20 @ 9pm IMDB Trailer
- Tuesday September 20, 2011 at 9:00PM
This screening is part of the larger thematic series:
- Cult Cinema 2011/12
- Cult Cinema: A Hard Day's Night (1964)
- Cult Cinema: Manhattan (1979)
- Cult Cinema: Wild at Heart (1990)
- Cult Cinema: Die Hard 2 (1990)
- Cult Cinema: The Killing (1956)
- Cult Cinema: Brazil (1985)
- Cult Cinema: Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- Cult Cinema: Harold and Maude (1971)
- Cult Cinema: Mulholland Dr. (2001)
- Cult Cinema: Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
- Cult Cinema: Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Cult Cinema: Nashville (1975)
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