Beatles - Eight Days a Week - the Touring Years (Region A Blu-ray)
Description
Beatles Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years 1 Disc Blu-ray IN 1962 FOUR YOUNG MEN JOHN LENNON, PAUL McCartney, GEORGE HARRISON AND RINGO STARR CAME TOGETHER TO FORM THE 20th CENTURY MUSICAL PHENOMENON KNOWN AS, "THE BEATLES." - The band stormed Europe in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music. - Master storyteller and Oscar® winner*, Ron Howard, explores this incredible journey in his own unique way: How did The Beatles do this? How did they cope with all the fame and pressure? How did they not only survive, but go on to revolutionize popular music? With original interviews, footage, staggering live performances, and the intimate study of character that Ron Howard is known for, he puts us right inside this extraordinary adventure, answering the question everyone always wants to know: What was it like to be there?!!
Product Details
- Barcode
- 602557169850
- Department
- Music
- Released
- 18 Nov 2016
- Supply Source
- USA
Music Show
- Release Year
- 2016
- Running Time
- 106 min
- Language
- English
- Working Title
- Untitled Beatles Documentary
- Categories
- Dramas / British / Concert / Concert Footage / Documentary / Music (General) / Musicians / Rock Bands / Rock Music
- US Box Office
- $2.0 million
- Official Website
- http://www.thebeatlesliveproject.com/#home
- Ratings
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- IMDb
- 7.8
- Rotten Tomatoes®
- 96%
- Metacritic
- Synopsis
- Director Ron Howard (RUSH, APOLLO 13) takes a look back at the years when the Beatles were still a touring band, from their early performances in Europe in 1963 to their decision in 1966 to quit playing publicly in order to focus on their work in the studio. This documentary features archival footage of the Beatles' legendary concerts, as well as interviews with surviving band members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and famous fans such as Whoopi Goldberg, Sigourney Weaver, and Elvis Costello.
- Release Notes
DVD Features:
- Region [unknown]
- Poster
- Cast & Crew
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Screenwriter
- Mark Monroe
- Director of Photography
- Caleb Deschanel / Bradley Haskell / Wolfgang Held / Paul Lang / Dark Nel / Tim Suhrstedt / Michael Wood / Jessica Young
- Hairstylist
- Michael Braun / Sophie Brown / Lauren Kaye Cohen / Sandy Linter
- Sound
- Cameron Frankley
- Sound Re-Recording
- Chris Jenkins
- Set Decorator
- K.C. Fox
- Makeup
- John Bellas / Michael Braun / Sophie Brown / Haley Coates / Lauren Kaye Cohen / Maury Hopson / Rachel Leidig / Sandy Linter / Linda McGovern / Tracy Raffelson
- Camera Operator
- Victor Avila
- Performer(s)
- Beatles
- Interviewee
- Whoopi Goldberg / Elvis Costello / Malcolm Gladwell / Howard Goodall / Eddie Izzard / Larry Kane / Richard Lester / Kitty Oliver / Sigourney Weaver
- Movie Critics
- A.V. Club
- "Ron Howard is a studio craftsman who specializes in crowd-pleasing entertainment...THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK focuses on the band during their crowd-pleasing years: the era between 1962 and 1966 when they toured the world, delivering smiling and effervescent performances..."— A.V. Club (15 Sep 2016, )
- Hollywood Reporter
- "THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK supplies a month-by-month account of the band's brief tenure as a live band. Predictably full of great performing footage and incorporating new interviews with the too-few surviving witnesses..."— John DeFore (16 Aug 2016, )
- Los Angeles Times
- "It's no surprise that a documentary on the Beatles and their music is a treat, but the fact that it is not an unalloyed pleasure is a bit unexpected."— Kenneth Turan (15 Sep 2016, )
- New York Times
- "[J]ust try watching it without smiling.....Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the surviving Beatles, provide fresh interviews, and John Lennon and George Harrison are heard in clips, all of them reflecting on what it was like to ride the beast."— Neil Genzlinger (15 Sep 2016, )
- Rolling Stone
- 3 stars out of 4 -- "[The film] catches the exhilarating kick of Beatlemania as the band toured 15 countries from 1963 to 1966....The documentary rightly keeps coming back to the music and the band's delight in making it."— Peter Travers (15 Sep 2016, )