Movies
The Beatles in front of and behind the camera
The four musicians were not only at their instruments, genius. They also played with joy and imagination in front of the film cameras. And led self-directed. Over 200 films were created around the Band.
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A Hard Day’s Night
The entry of the Beatles into the movie business is the result of a coincidence. Because United Artists wanted to take the Beatles under contract, the rights were with a different company, lured UA to the Beatles via the detour of a film contract. “A Hard Day’s Night” Director Richard Lester was a masterpiece. A bold mixture of documentary and feature film about the concert everyday life of the Band.
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Help!
Richard Lester turned in 1965 the four band members, also the second Beatles Film. In contrast to “A Hard Day’s Night” “Help!” on a narrative of action. It’s going to be a far Eastern cult, human sacrifice, and a Ring, Ringo Star cannot get rid of. “Help!” still offers the best Slapstick entertainment, has not survived the time, but not quite as good as the Beatles ‘ debut.
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Magical Mystery Tour
Her third Film took the Beatles into their own hands. They acted now as Directors, producers, and actors. “Magical Mystery Tour” is the story of a Bus trip through the South of England – similar to but more of a surreal magical Film Experiment than a normal feature film. The Beatles had previously released their legendary Album “Sgt. Pepper”. That also inspired the Film.
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Yellow Submarine
To was an exciting stylistic adventure of the animated Film “Yellow Submarine”. Director George Dunning, and the four musicians from Liverpool created their first full-length animation film is a cinematic marvel: experimental and unconventional, imaginative and modern. “Yellow Submarine” broke radically from the prevailing cartoon Aesthetic of Walt disney’s.
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Let it be
“Let it be” was, in 1970, the last full-length Film of the Beatles. In contrast to the previous films this is a documentary. Shown are the musicians in the Studio during the Get Back sessions in January 1969. The Film is without commentary, and arrangement and relies entirely on authenticity. The audience experienced, such as the Songs of the Beatles.
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Wonderwall
In addition to the five famous Original Beatles films were produced in the years after the band’s dissolution, a number of works in which the Beatles played any role or for which they wrote the music. For the 1968-produced the feature film “Wonderwall,” wrote George Harrison on the Soundtrack. “Wonderwall” was not a success, but is often now considered a cult film.
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Across the Universe
As an outstanding example for the use of Beatles music in a Film Across the Universe “by Julie Taymor (2007)”. The story is set in the 1960s, and explores the youth culture of the time. To hear during the movie are action, 33 Songs of the Beatles – not only as background music: The Songs drive the plot in terms of content and formally.
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I am Sam
Also in 2001, Jessie Nelson, the rolling of the Film “I am Sam” plays impressively with the music of the Beatles. Here it is, the mentally retarded, Sam, played by Sean Penn, who is raising his young daughter alone. For Sam, the music of the four mushroom offers heads orientation in a world in which he finds himself. For legal reasons, the music from a cover band was used.
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Live and Let die
The presumably most famous and most successful film song, from the pen of one of the four Beatles is expected to be “Live and Let die”. Three years after the band’s dissolution, Paul McCartney wrote the title song for the eighth James Bond Film. With his Band “Wings” he made the title song from the agent series, was a worldwide success. “Live and Let die” also received an Oscar nomination.
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Vanilla Sky
His impeccable sense of popular film music of Paul McCartney proved that, nearly three decades later, he contributed the title song to “Vanilla Sky”. The psychological Thriller from Director Cameron Crowe was busy with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, and Penélope Cruz, prominent. McCartney earned the Song a second Oscar nomination
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Water
In particular, George Harrison developed after the end of the time together with the Beatles and in addition to his music activities ambition as a film producer. Harrison founded the company “hand-made”, which brought several productions in the cinemas. The British Film “Water” (1985) tells the fantastic story of a Caribbean island, and suddenly there was a valuable mineral water source is discovered.
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That’ll be the Day
The individual members of the Beatles were also once in a while as an actor, John Lennon already very early in Richard Lester’s anti-war Comedy “How I won the war” (1967). Also noteworthy is the appearance of Ringo Starr in “That’ll be the Day”, a British movie from the year 1973. The Drummer of the Beatles playing there, convincing a Macho and Womanizer.
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A Hard Day’s Night
The entry of the Beatles into the movie business is the result of a coincidence. Because United Artists wanted to take the Beatles under contract, the rights were with a different company, lured UA to the Beatles via the detour of a film contract. “A Hard Day’s Night” Director Richard Lester was a masterpiece. A bold mixture of documentary and feature film about the concert everyday life of the Band.
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Help!
Richard Lester turned in 1965 the four band members, also the second Beatles Film. In contrast to “A Hard Day’s Night” “Help!” on a narrative of action. It’s going to be a far Eastern cult, human sacrifice, and a Ring, Ringo Star cannot get rid of. “Help!” still offers the best Slapstick entertainment, has not survived the time, but not quite as good as the Beatles ‘ debut.
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Magical Mystery Tour
Her third Film took the Beatles into their own hands. They acted now as Directors, producers, and actors. “Magical Mystery Tour” is the story of a Bus trip through the South of England – similar to but more of a surreal magical Film Experiment than a normal feature film. The Beatles had previously released their legendary Album “Sgt. Pepper”. That also inspired the Film.
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Yellow Submarine
To was an exciting stylistic adventure of the animated Film “Yellow Submarine”. Director George Dunning, and the four musicians from Liverpool created their first full-length animation film is a cinematic marvel: experimental and unconventional, imaginative and modern. “Yellow Submarine” broke radically from the prevailing cartoon Aesthetic of Walt disney’s.
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Let it be
“Let it be” was, in 1970, the last full-length Film of the Beatles. In contrast to the previous films this is a documentary. Shown are the musicians in the Studio during the Get Back sessions in January 1969. The Film is without commentary, and arrangement and relies entirely on authenticity. The audience experienced, such as the Songs of the Beatles.
-
Wonderwall
In addition to the five famous Original Beatles films were produced in the years after the band’s dissolution, a number of works in which the Beatles played any role or for which they wrote the music. For the 1968-produced the feature film “Wonderwall,” wrote George Harrison on the Soundtrack. “Wonderwall” was not a success, but is often now considered a cult film.
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Across the Universe
As an outstanding example for the use of Beatles music in a Film Across the Universe “by Julie Taymor (2007)”. The story is set in the 1960s, and explores the youth culture of the time. To hear during the movie are action, 33 Songs of the Beatles – not only as background music: The Songs drive the plot in terms of content and formally.
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I am Sam
Also in 2001, Jessie Nelson, the rolling of the Film “I am Sam” plays impressively with the music of the Beatles. Here it is, the mentally retarded, Sam, played by Sean Penn, who is raising his young daughter alone. For Sam, the music of the four mushroom offers heads orientation in a world in which he finds himself. For legal reasons, the music from a cover band was used.
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Live and Let die
The presumably most famous and most successful film song, from the pen of one of the four Beatles is expected to be “Live and Let die”. Three years after the band’s dissolution, Paul McCartney wrote the title song for the eighth James Bond Film. With his Band “Wings” he made the title song from the agent series, was a worldwide success. “Live and Let die” also received an Oscar nomination.
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Vanilla Sky
His impeccable sense of popular film music of Paul McCartney proved that, nearly three decades later, he contributed the title song to “Vanilla Sky”. The psychological Thriller from Director Cameron Crowe was busy with Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, and Penélope Cruz, prominent. McCartney earned the Song a second Oscar nomination
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Water
In particular, George Harrison developed after the end of the time together with the Beatles and in addition to his music activities ambition as a film producer. Harrison founded the company “hand-made”, which brought several productions in the cinemas. The British Film “Water” (1985) tells the fantastic story of a Caribbean island, and suddenly there was a valuable mineral water source is discovered.
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That’ll be the Day
The individual members of the Beatles were also once in a while as an actor, John Lennon already very early in Richard Lester’s anti-war Comedy “How I won the war” (1967). Also noteworthy is the appearance of Ringo Starr in “That’ll be the Day”, a British movie from the year 1973. The Drummer of the Beatles playing there, convincing a Macho and Womanizer.
“I saw a film today, oh Boy!” is a book that alludes to a title of the Band and the film activities of the Beatles lists. Around 200 films, the author Jörg came Helbig. It movies, the show, the four musicians as actors, or in which you yourself have led. It works, to which you have together or separately written the Soundtrack. And there are films that document the history of the most famous Pop Band in the music history.
No claim to completeness, Jörg collects Helbig in his book, admits that only a minority of the films is free on the market available for free.
Magical Cinema History
The most important of the five Beatles movies, the incurred up to the date of the band’s dissolution, of course: “A Hard Day’s Night”, “Help!”, “Magical Mystery Tour”, “Yellow Submarine” and “Let it Be”. In addition, the reader can discover numerous well-known and lesser-known films that are in any way connected with the Liverpool learning.
Of course, the Beatles had as a film composer success. The four musicians wrote for many of the canvas works of the Soundtrack, especially after 1970, as a Solo musician. So they lived on in the hearts of their Fans even after the end of the Band.
Jörg Helbig: “I saw a film today, oh Boy! Encyclopedia of the Beatles films,” stir up publishing in 2016, 320 pages, ISBN 978-3-89472-716-1.