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Tarfumes.com - A Hard Day's Night
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List Price: $14.99
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Manufacturer: Miramax Entertainment
Starring: Lionel Blair, Wilfrid Brambell, Deryck Guyler, Kenneth Haigh, George Harrison
Directed By: Lester, Richard
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 9780788818318
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 0788818317
Label: Miramax Entertainment
Manufacturer: Miramax Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Miramax Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-09-24
Running Time: 92
Studio: Miramax Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1964-08-11
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Editorial Reviews:
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This strikingly original classic captures all the fun excitement and unforgettable music of John Paul George and Ringo at the height of Beatlemania! It's a wildly irreverent day in the life of the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band! As they prepare for a big TV appearance the Beatles perform their songs look for adventure... and try in vain to keep Paul's mischief-making grandfather out of trouble... all while avoiding hordes of screaming fans! Packed with all-time Beatle favorites including "A Hard Day's Night" "All My Loving" "Can't Buy Me Love" "I Should Have Known Better" "She Loves You" and "Tell Me Why" director Richard Lester's groundbreaking motion picture collaboration with the "Fab Four" is itself a treasured piece of rock history that remains influential to this day! This collector's edition includes "Give Me Everything!" -- a companion anthology to The Beatles' first film -- featuring hours of rare and new material.System Requirements:Starring George Harrison John Lennon Paul McCartney Ringo Starr Wilfrid Brambell Directed by Richard Lester Running time: 92 minutes Copyright Buena Vista 2003 Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â MUSICALS/MUSICALS Rating:Â G UPC:Â 717951004864 Manufacturer No:Â 01830100
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Summary: nostalgic and fun
Comment: The reviewer who claims that this film was originally made in 4:3 format is quite wrong. Perhaps he means the original video, which was certainly cut to fit a standard TV. But this good DVD is correctly formatted, and nothing has been cut off from the top or bottom.
That having been said, this is a very comprehensive set. The 36' documentary with reminiscences of the film's crew is fun and enlightening. One comes away with the feeling, as if we couldn't guess from the film itself, that spirits were high (pardon the expression) and everyone felt this would be something special.
The remastering here is quite good, tho perhaps not quite Criterion quality. The sound seems just a bit flat, and is much fuller in the restored WS Help!
But, these tiny quibbles aside, the boys are beautiful, energetic, fun, imaginative, and Richard Lester's revolutionary vision is just as fresh and youthful over four decades later.
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Summary: Still rocking the kids
Comment: I bought this for my 16 year old daughter who has discovered the Beatles. She just loves their music and I am getting to enjoy them again also. It is great to be able to share my youth with todays youth.
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Summary: Great Movie!
Comment: The Beatles are wonderful in this movie. It is fast paced and very funny. One has to pay attention to the dialogue to get the jokes and they are gems. The extras are good too. A lot of fun!
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Summary: Still great after all these years
Comment: I bought this DVD as I am phasing out my VHS tapes. I had the same issue in VHS, though this has interviews with many people that make the extras neat. My favorite was George Martin discussing the boys individually as writers and the individual songs. The film stands up well to 40+ years of time.
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Summary: Will Miramax and MPI please stop tampering with our memories?
Comment: The other night I decided to pull out HDN and watch it for the first time in several years. I have both the MPI and Miramax DVDs so I reached for my good old MPI edition and popped it in. The 1.33:1 aspect ratio always bugged me a bit but I thought "so what" and decided to watch it because I love the opening "I'll Cry Instead" prologue on that version. When the movie got to the "And I Love Her" sequence I started, for the first time, to notice that the mix was different than the video tape I'd seen years ago. Paul's vocal, which should be single-voiced on the main verses, was double tracked throughout. During the song, the director's assistant positions George's amp on an amp stand. When George tries to lean against it, it falls and in the original soundtrack you can HEAR the amp fall backward and George stumble. When I saw that the sound to that moment was missing I realized MPI had used the released mix of the song and simply stuck it in the soundtrack. Always one to HATE it when studios tamper with a work of art, especially one as important and influential as this one, I removed the MPI version and but in the Miramax. When the same sequence appeared again I could hear that the mix was correct and the stumble was there in the background, but it seemed that heads were chopped off and scenes looked different than they should due to the 16:9 "enhancement." It was at this point I decided to try and figure out just how much of the picture each release had sacrificed since there seems to be no end to the conjecture on this subject on the internet. I place both DVD's in my computer, captured an identical scene on each and then compared them in Photoshop. Now I have heard over and over that the original film was shown in a ratio of 1.66:1. When I compared 1.66:1 to a ratio of 1.77:1 (roughly what 16:9, the Miramax version, translates to when changed to units of 1) I saw that if the original film was in 1.66:1 only a tiny bit of the picture should be cropped (about 3 to 5 percent) at the top and bottom of the Miramax DVD. What I found was that Miramax had chopped off about 20 percent at the top and bottom. 20 PERCENT!. That's a lot of the image folks! MPI had hacked off about 10 to 15 percent from the sides so they didn't do much better. When I tried to see what aspect ratio the two pictures together formed, I kept coming up with a ratio of around 3:2 or around 1.5:1 not 1.66:1. The original aspect HAS to be around this size. So ultimately what you end up with is this: One of the most musically influential and historically important films ever made with around 20 percent of the image missing. And since MPI chops off almost as much of the sides and mutilates the soundtrack, owning it isn't much better. I would love to see, just once, someone release a work of art such as this without doing the viewers a "favor" such as hacking at the image so it will fit a 16:9 television or recording over a soundtrack because they feel no one will notice. While I will give Miramax a couple of points for making the color balance and contrast look great, that was the only thing they seem to get right (see the other complaints about how they somehow turned a mono soundtrack into 5.1 surround by messing with the music tracks and how weird it now sounds). Perhaps one day this magnificent film will be released in the correct ratio, with the correct soundtrack, and in the correct color balance. But I'm not gonna hold my breath. After all, the people producing these new releases seem to know so much more than us fans who actually spend money on them. If you love the movie as much as me, all I could suggest is rent the old VHS video tape from MPI and watch it. You'll get more of the picture and the soundtrack will be right. It won't be crystal clear like a DVD, but at least your memories will remain intact without someone else getting involved.
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