DFS: Music and the Movies • A Hard Day's Night (presented in 35mm)
Beatlemania comes to the Hop with this slapstick musical adventure, with John, Paul, George and Ringo playing parody versions of themselves.
Beatlemania comes to the Hop with this slapstick musical adventure, with John, Paul, George and Ringo playing parody versions of themselves.
Just one month after they exploded onto the US scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day's Night, in which the bandmates play cheeky comic versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever.
Directed with raucous, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester and featuring a slew of iconic pop anthems, including the title track, Can't Buy Me Love, I Should Have Known Better and If I Fell, this movie musical reconceived the genre and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video, is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of all time.
Programmed as part of the Dartmouth Film Society series "Music and the Movies"
