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Richard Lester Double Feature!
A Double Dose of Lennon!
Special Guest: Co-star (& close Beatles pal) Victor Spinetti in-person!Saturday July 28, 2007 - 7:30pm
Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
- A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
- A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
- (1964, 85 mins, Miramax, Directed by Richard Lester)
- Lester’s brilliant, carefree comedy captured the early Beatles at their best, clowning (as one respected reviewer said) like the new Marx Bros. and set the tone for the Sixties revolution. From the restless, handheld camerawork and slight-of-hand jumpcut editing to writer Alun Owen's wittily surreal day-in-the-life script and George Martin's sprightly score (Owen and Martin both received Oscar-nominations) to the Beatles themselves - exuberantly singing "Can't Buy Me Love," "She Loves You" and ten other Beatles classics - this is the essence of the monochromatic early Sixties. Enhancing the film are the wonderful turns by Britain's finest comedic actors including Wilfrid Brambell, John Junkin and most memorably - Victor Spinetti - who became a close pal of the Beatles and was invited by them to appear in both of their other feature films "Help!" and "Magical Mystery Tour". London-based Victor Spinetti is on a rare trip to Los Angeles and will attend the screening and partake in a conversation with Mods & Rockers producer (and Beatles scholar) Martin Lewis - who produced the DVD edition of "A Hard Day's Night"
Conversation following with co-star (and close Beatles pal) Victor Spinetti
- Lester’s brilliant, carefree comedy captured the early Beatles at their best, clowning (as one respected reviewer said) like the new Marx Bros. and set the tone for the Sixties revolution. From the restless, handheld camerawork and slight-of-hand jumpcut editing to writer Alun Owen's wittily surreal day-in-the-life script and George Martin's sprightly score (Owen and Martin both received Oscar-nominations) to the Beatles themselves - exuberantly singing "Can't Buy Me Love," "She Loves You" and ten other Beatles classics - this is the essence of the monochromatic early Sixties. Enhancing the film are the wonderful turns by Britain's finest comedic actors including Wilfrid Brambell, John Junkin and most memorably - Victor Spinetti - who became a close pal of the Beatles and was invited by them to appear in both of their other feature films "Help!" and "Magical Mystery Tour". London-based Victor Spinetti is on a rare trip to Los Angeles and will attend the screening and partake in a conversation with Mods & Rockers producer (and Beatles scholar) Martin Lewis - who produced the DVD edition of "A Hard Day's Night"
- HOW I WON THE WAR
- (1967, 110 mins, MGM Repertory, Directed by Richard Lester)
- Maverick (“A Hard Day’s Night”, “Help!” and “The Knack”) director Richard Lester recruited John Lennon (in his first and only solo acting role) for this wildly surreal satire on war movies, featuring Michael Crawford as a blissfully unaware idiot charged with building a cricket pitch behind enemy lines during World War II. Although nominally set in the 1940’s, the film exudes 1960’s anti-establishment tone, featuring abrupt time shifts, jump-cutting and Lester’s patented blend of biting wit and surreal slapstick that presaged Monty Python. Incidentally - Lester always chafes when this film is simplistically described as “an anti-war movie”. As he explains: “it’s an ‘anti-WAR-MOVIE’ movie”
Tonight's Stars!
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- Musicians & Composers (seen and/or heard):
The Beatles •George Harrison •John Lennon •Paul McCartney •Ringo Starr - Actors/Directors/Producers/Cultural Icons:
Lionel Blair •John Bluthal •Pattie Boyd •Wilfrid Brambell •Phil Collins •Michael Crawford •Deryck Guyler •Kenneth Haigh •Sheila Hancock •Jack Hedley •Michael Hordern •John Junkin •Roy Kinnear •John Lennon •Jack MacGowran •Dandy Nichols •Derek Nimmo •Anna Quayle •Norman Rossington •Victor Spinetti •Richard Vernon
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