Tag: Let It Be
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Peter Jackson Says There’s “5 Or 6 Hours” Of Great ‘Beatles: Get Back’ Footage, But Disney/Apple “Reluctant” To Release Extended Cut
Directed and shaped by filmmaker Peter Jackson—based on footage shot by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg for the little-seen 1970 “Let It Be” documentary— perhaps no piece of pop culture has reignited Beatlemania like the documentary “Beatles: Get Back,” save for maybe the “The Beatles Anthology” docu-series in 1995. Released last fall to much acclaimed, Jackson’s gargantuan…
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Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg on the Long and Winding Road From ‘Let It Be’ to ‘Get Back’
“Let It Be” director Michael Lindsay-Hogg couldn’t be happier with Peter Jackson’s “Get Back,” the three-part, nearly eight-hour miniseries made up of outtakes from his original Beatles documentary, which arrived on Disney Plus two weeks ago to much fanfare.Now 81, living in Hudson, NY, with his wife and three dogs, and mostly painting, Lindsay-Hogg is…
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Tribeca Film Review: ‘Yesterday’
The Beatles wrote many of the greatest songs of all time, and they also wrote a lot of the greatest movie songs. To know that, all you have to do is see the title sequence of “A Hard Day’s Night,” which electrifies you from its opening Thrum!!!, or the Beatles blasting the sonic bliss of…