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"I first saw
A Hard Day’s Night at a film festival over 20 years ago, at the
insistence of my mum. By then, it was already decades old, but I remember being
enthralled by its high-spirited energy.
A Beatles fan, mum had introduced me to the band’s records in my childhood. At
home, we listened to
Please Please Me, the band’s 1963 single, and the
Rubber Soul album from 1965, which I loved.
Television regularly showed old black-and-white scenes of Beatlemania that, to
a ten-year-old in the neon-lit 1980s, seemed like ancient history. But then,
I’d never seen a full-length Beatles film. I had no idea what I was in for.
When the lights went down at Dunedin’s Regent Theatre, the opening chord of the
film’s title song announced its intentions: an explosion of youthful vitality,
rhythmic visuals, comical high jinks and the electrifying thrill of Beatlemania
in 1964.
This time, it didn’t seem ancient at all.
Since that first viewing, I’ve returned to
A Hard Day’s Night again and
again. I now show it to my students as a historically significant example of
pop music film making – visually inventive cinema, emblematic of a fresh era in
youth culture, popular music and fandom."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
