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in Richard Lester's

"The CITIZEN KANE of jukebox musicals!"
  -Andrew Sarris

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Q: Are you a mod or a rocker?
Ringo: I'm a mocker.

(1964) Just another day in the life: fleeing from screaming fans at a train station, contending with a "very clean" grandfather, jamming in a baggage car, cavorting in a field, wandering by a river, weirding out knotted-browed reporters with absurdist comebacks, wowing crowds at an orgasmic final concert - the Beatles' film debut rocketed them to another level beyond the latest pop faves as even squarely middle-aged critics, their knives sharpened for yet another schlocky teen idol exploiter, were disarmed into grudging hosannas.

Q: Tell me, how do you find America?
John: Turn left at Greenland.

Richard Lester - on a $500,000 budget - melded his mastery of commercials with New Wave techniques in a semi-documentary style that created something new - and since endlessly imitated - along with Alun Owen's screenplay in which scripted one-liners and the occasional ad-lib blend seamlessly, thanks, of course, to the exuberant, anarchic personalities of the Fab Four themselves.

Q: What would you call that hairstyle?
George: Arthur.

And those songs just keep on coming: "I Should Have Known Better," "Can't Buy Me Love," "All My Loving," "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You," "She Loves You," and the title song, inspired by a chance remark by Ringo and written overnight by Lennon and McCartney after filming was completed. "Hard Day's Night's curious structure was really just the chronicling of the explosion of youth as a power in this country. The Beatles told everybody you can do anything you damn well like - just go out and do it!" - Lester.

Showtimes: 2:40, 6:00, 9:20

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• The Official Miramax HARD DAY'S NIGHT Website
• Watch the trailer!
• The Internet Movie Database A HARD DAY'S NIGHT Page
• The New York Times' Review of A HARD DAY'S NIGHT.
• The New York Times' article: Looking for the Real John Lennon
• The USA Today's Review of A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
• The Beatles Discography
• The Triannual Beatlefest Fan Conventionssite
• The On-Line Beatles Album - a great Beatles site
• Beatles, Beatles, Beatles! Many great links to The Beatles here!
• The Beatles on SonicNet
• Beatles Web
• Songs, Pictures and Stories of The Beatles Especially RARE Beatles stuff
• Rockument's History of the Beatles
• Beatles 2000 Website
• The Beatle Zone! Everything Beatles
• The Beatles on Abbey Road Website
• Beatles: Music to live for!
• Beatles, The - LookSmart Spotlight Site
• Dana Pannell's BEATLES KARAOKE
• Abbeyrd's Beatle Page

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The Birth of the Beatles by Sam Leach	A Hard Day's Night (CD) The Beatles	The Beatles Anthology by The Beatles, Paul McCartney George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon	The Beatles Anthology: 1 (CD) The Beatles
All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview With John Lennon and Yoko Ono by John Lennon, David Sheff, Yoko Ono (Introduction), G.Barry Golson	The Beatles Every Little Thing: A Compendium of Witty, Weird and Ever-Surprising Facts About the Fab Four by Maxwell MacKenzie	Getting Away With It: Or: The Further Adventures of the Luckiest Bastard You Ever Saw by Steven Soderbergh, Richard Lester	The Beatles 1 (CD) The Beatles
Abbey Road to Zapple Records: A Beatles Encyclopedia by Judson Knight	A Hard Day's Write: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song by Steve Turner	Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970 by Jann S. Wenner, John Lennon	The Complete Beatles Chronicle by Mark Lewisohn, George Martin
Skywriting by Word of Mouth: And Other Writings, Including the Ballad of John and Yoko by John Lennon, Yoko Ono		John Lennon in His Own Write by John Lennon, Yoko Ono (Introduction)	Rubber Soul (CD) The Beatles

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