
A Hard Day’s Night
Director: Richard Lester Run Time: 88 min. Release Year: 1964
Starring: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
Screening as part of a/perture’s Summer Music Festival, sponsored by Blanco Tackabery.
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul’s troublemaking grandfather and Ringo’s arrest.
“Beautifully anchored in the context of its rapidly changing times—few movies have such a serene handle on what it is to be perched on a volcano that is about to erupt—A Hard Day’s Night glided right into the history the Beatles had begun to make.” ~ Howard Hampton, Criterion