Thirty years after A Hard Day’s Night, its producer, director, writer and others describe its making. United Artists Records came to Walter Shenson, asking him to produce a movie so UA could issue a soundtrack album. Shenson signed Lester to direct, and they got the Beatles to agree to star. Shenson sent Owen to Dublin to spend time with the Fab Four; from this came a script built around their being prisoners of their own success. Phil Collins, himself an extra on A Hard Day’s Night, hosts this examination of a seminal film: what was ad-libbed, why was it a hit, what was its influence on other movies, and how did it define the way the public viewed each Beatle for years to come?
Category: Music
Music
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Endless Waltz
Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.
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Up, Down, Fragile
A librarian, a gangster’s ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris.
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Meisjes in de Grote Stad
The Dutch singers and cabaret artists Adèle Bloemendaal and Jenny Arean pay a musical tribute to the city of their births, Amsterdam.
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Victor/Victoria
Out-of-work singer Victoria Grant meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a club in 1920s Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan, falls in love with “him.” Filmed live on Broadway, 1995.
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Santana – Sacred Fire
Sacred Fire: Live in South America is an album by Santana. This album is dedicated to the life of Cesar Chavez. There is also a video of this album, by the same name, featuring additional songs not featured on the album. It features shots of Carlos playing guitar at various historic sites around Mexico city.
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Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge
This is a true story about the relationship between a mother and her daughter, and their struggle to make it to the top in the music world. It is about hopes and dreams… about relationships and about growing up.
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The Song Spinner
In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its “Hush Law” prohibits noise of any kind, including music. Enter the exiled gypsy Zantalalia (Patti LuPone), who returns determined to pass her singing secrets on to ten-year-old Aurora (Meredith Henderson), an action that will get the girl in trouble with Captain Nizzle of the dreaded Noise Police. John Neville completes the cast of this colorful family fantasy.
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The Christmas Elves
Presenting a whimsical holiday surprise package bursting with comical elfin escapades, Yuletide musical fun and brilliantly animated fairy magic!