The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years

[Edgy MD]

Four irrepressible lads from Liverpool take the world by storm with their music.

Story told in impressively digitally remastered sound and digitally restored film, effectively synched together even as they often come from different sources. Some colorizing.

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[Frayed Knot]

Where is this playing/showing/streaming/renting?

[Edgy MD]

Just went up on Amazon.

Directed by Opie Cunningham. New interview footage by Caleb Deschanel. Music remastering by Giles Martin.

Coolest thing was hearing somebody talking about going to one of the Hollywood Bowl shows as footage of the crowd rolls, describing how she did everything she could to get tickets, and ended up a half mile from the stage.

And then they cut to a shot of the speaker, and it's none other than (famous Baby Boomer actress), telling how, no matter how far away she was, she dressed and did her hair carefully to get noticed. And you're thinking, oh yeah, you were there, maybe, but your memory is probably embellishing.

And then, somehow, they get 10 seconds of a crowd shot, and there's this 13-ish-year-old, a little taller than then others, and it's (that very same famous Baby Boomer fucking actress). You can tell by her dimples and chin and stuff. I don't know if they found her in a wide shot and zoomed and digitally enhanced it or what. But it was pretty cool.

Stuff like that is cool. But what made it best is how they were able to reconstruct and master the music, and you find out that, contrary to testimony, including and especially their own, they were actually singing and playing pretty damn good for the most part.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I spent like an hour trying to find a movie to watch on Amazon last night and didn't come across this.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Just went up on Amazon.

Ahh, that explains why it seems to be skipping Netflix entirely.

[Vic Sage]

just saw it on a flight.
eh. Maybe if i saw it at home, with good sound...

[Frayed Knot]

Good sound would help (or HELP!) as one of the best features of it was old clips that had obviously been restored by some method or other to where they didn't sound like your first transistor radio.

Not sure I learned much of anything I hadn't already known but was still an enjoyable 90 minutes or so.

[dgwphotography]

Finally saw this (It's now on Hulu) I was simply blown away.

[Guest sharpie]

Not great. Had seen almost all of the clips before. Was, I guess, a beginner's guide to the Beatles. Still, they were, um, pretty good so that counts for something.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah as docs go, the simple COMPLEAT BEATLES was better. Not to say I didn't enjoy this and think a little about how things might be different if their equipment and scheduling and promotion were up to standards. But I'm not even sure if Ron even intended to have a point of view. It was like I'm Ron Howard, you like the Beatles, here's some footage and grapohics