New Stuff: The Beatles: Get Back

 

Yesterday (2019)

 

A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed. 

Generally amusing and entertaining parallel universe fantasy comedy vividly hops along the jokes you can imagine with its premise and the fun lasts as long as you don't ask any questions; and for crying out loud, Ed Sheeran, seriously?

 

The Movies I Watched in March

The Bat 1959  6

Behind Her Eyes 2021  6 

Blutiger Freitag 1972  5

Booksmart 2019  6

Captain Phillips 2013  7

 

Cezanne et Moi 2016  6

Clara 2018  7

Crimson Peak 2015  6

The Dead Don't Die 2019  7

Doctor Sleep 2019  7

 

Don't Drink the Water 1994  6

Epos Dei - Die geheimnisvolle Ordnung hinter den Dingen  5

Ercole l'invincibile 1964  4

Françoise Hardy, la discrète (2016)  6

Galaxina 1980  3

Greetings 1968  6 

Hi, Mom! 1970  6

Hour of the Gun 1967  7

I Am Legend 2007  6 

I Knew It Was You: Remembering John Cazale 2009  6

Immortals 2011  6 

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound 2009  6

Joe Kidd 1972  6

Junkopia 1981  7

Y

The King of Comedy 1982  7

Il mio viaggio in Italia 1999  8

Mr. Stitch 1995  6

Murder Among The Mormons 2021  6 

The Naked Edge 1961  6

The Nightingale 2018  7

La peau blanche 2006   6 

Roma 1972  7

Screamers 1995  6

The Secret Life of Pets 2 2019  7 

Son of a Lion 2007  7

Supergirl 1984  6

Teströl és lélekrö 2017  8

 

The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020  7 

Trouble Every Day 2001  6

Ulzana's Raid 1972  7 

Umimachi Diary 2015  7

 

The Wedding Party 1969  6

White Pongo 1945  4

The White Tiger 2021  7

The Woman 2011  6 

Wonder Woman 1984  6

Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao 1995  7 

Ye yan 2006  6

Yesterday 2019  7 

Photographer: Harry Goodwin

Bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Goodwin

New Stuff: George Harrison

Good Ol' Freda (2013)

A documentary in which Freda Kelly looks back at her career as lifelong secretary for The Beatles.

Wonderful documentary focused on a lovable person on the hidden side of fame, but still offers little insights into the stars' lives and the music business.

New Stuff: R. Stevie Moore

The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) (TV)

Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.

Congenial Beatles parody, remarkably accurate in all departments, especially in the musical reinventions.

Magical Mystery Tour (1967) (TV)

The Beatles charter a special bus for a surreal mystery tour.

Silly and sloppy surreal fantasy, nevertheless with some brilliant music.

Songs in the key of my life: The Beatles - A Day in the Life

In the late 1960s my Dad attended night college after his daytime job. His English class must have been quite modern, because he bought two albums by the Beatles, 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' and 'Magical Mystery Tour' - they were discussing the lyrics at college! Still, it probably was a bit simplistic, my Dad since then is convinced that 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' is code for LSD. I really wouldn't bother with such interpretations, the albums were so much more than just mere adolescent wisecracking.
I guess those two records are the ones I havelistened to the most often in my life, although not much recently. And I could probably mention any song from them in this list. I was just a child, but I became completely enthralled by this music, and despite my innocence and musical ignorance I clearly realized that 'Sgt. Pepper's' had an invisible concept behind it. Of course, the superficial framework of the album was as a show being presented with an opener and an end, but the songs themselves held a quality of their own and still there was some kind of inner coherence. 'A Day in the Life' is the most unusual title, first as it is played after the show as something like a bonus or afterthought, but also it is thematically going somewhere else. Someone's reading the newspaper and then drifts off into a strange dream. Again you could interpret it as another song about a trip, but as a child you didn't need to know what drugs are to go along with the concept. Kids do it all the time - without any drugs. More than just a song it seems to combine two or more songs in one grandiose epic (much like Frank Zappa loves to do), the orchestral parts expanding the dimension of the music into another realm. It's still hard to pinpoint the song's impact or to decipher the lyrics completely, but it remains one of my favourite songs, although I can hardly listen to most of the Beatles' other hits any more. I'm glad I was able to hear this as a child, later on in life I might have not appreciated it as much after having heard even more sophistacted music by then.

Photographer: Harry Benson

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http://www.harrybenson.com

Help! (1965)

Ringo finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult and the band must try to protect him from it.

Although not as brilliant as A Hard Day's Night this second Richard Lester/The Beatles is nevertheless a hilariously entertaining patchwork of slapstick comedy, musical showmanship and some wee bits of Dada.