I remember watching their debut on the Ed Sulivan Show. Looking forward to this presentation.
This past holiday weekend, you may have noticed a variant of the traditional Thanksgiving food coma taking hold of various family, friends and neighbors. This new condition—I’ll call it Beatles blackout—is characterized by fanatical attention to detailed dissections of the moods and utterances of four 20-something Liverpudlians over the course of 21 days in January 1969. Those suffering from this disorder, and I count myself among them, could be found firmly planted on the couch with their eyes glued to a screen watching (and rewatching) “The Beatles: Get Back.”
Directed by Peter Jackson, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker responsible for the maximalist “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” trilogies, “Get Back” is a feat of technical mastery by virtue of its very existence. Jackson spent four years combing through 60 hours of 50-year-old film footage and over 150 hours of audio, and then employed state-of-the-art digital restoration techniques to assemble “Get Back.” Still, the film’s technical achievements are not all that surprising when you consider that Jackson and his team were also behind the innovative World War I documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which transformed 100-year-old black-and-white war footage into vivid full-color cinema.
Think you know what the Beatles’ last days were like? Disney+’s ‘Get Back’ will shatter your assumptions. | America Magazine
This past holiday weekend, you may have noticed a variant of the traditional Thanksgiving food coma taking hold of various family, friends and neighbors. This new condition—I’ll call it Beatles blackout—is characterized by fanatical attention to detailed dissections of the moods and utterances of four 20-something Liverpudlians over the course of 21 days in January 1969. Those suffering from this disorder, and I count myself among them, could be found firmly planted on the couch with their eyes glued to a screen watching (and rewatching) “The Beatles: Get Back.”
Directed by Peter Jackson, the Academy Award–winning filmmaker responsible for the maximalist “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” trilogies, “Get Back” is a feat of technical mastery by virtue of its very existence. Jackson spent four years combing through 60 hours of 50-year-old film footage and over 150 hours of audio, and then employed state-of-the-art digital restoration techniques to assemble “Get Back.” Still, the film’s technical achievements are not all that surprising when you consider that Jackson and his team were also behind the innovative World War I documentary “They Shall Not Grow Old,” which transformed 100-year-old black-and-white war footage into vivid full-color cinema.
Think you know what the Beatles’ last days were like? Disney+’s ‘Get Back’ will shatter your assumptions. | America Magazine
