Tonight I watched The Beatles’ classic film from 1964, “A Hard Days Night”. It’s really hard to believe that it has been 45 years since this film was released. Feel old? Nevermind that, it’s a classic and for good reason. It’s still entertaining after all this time and the Beatles music is timeless and will live forever.

This is the two-DVD version, with a bunch of extras, but I only watched the actual film tonight. I have to say that the restorative process they used  worked great because this film looks fantastic. The crisp and clear black and white is stunning in quality for a film that old. You can hear the dialog and even understand the British accents (almost always). Sure, some of the slang is a little dated but just go with it. The songs, meanwhile, are pop gems from their early days. Nothing deep, they would get to that later, but just catchy as hell.

Of course, the story is, to be generous, very slight. But it’s not about drama, it’s about music and some humor and it succeeds at that. Four madcap moptops in a zany romp, or some such hoohah. Whatever, it was very likable and fun.

Have you watched it recently? Or ever? Let me know what you think, leave me a comment below.

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