Magical Mystery Tour + Let It Be DVD Releases - Thanksgiving 2K12

To me, the insinuation was they watched it as an example of something very surreal and an example of whatever psychadelic genre it falls into. Although, in film school, people are always drawing deep meanings and symbolism from anything.

 

Guess what - back then he was so unbelievably cool, hip, with it, avant garde and ahead of his time.

 

I'm not sure where you are finding these surreal and psychedelic insinuations from. If you are referring to Paul's interview in the Anthology, Paul doesn't say anything of the sort and Paul doesn't mention Spielberg saying anything of the sort. Paul says "but I think you know, in the end, it came out..I think it's quite interesting now looking back on it as a period piece and people like Spielberg, I've read that people like him sort of said "when I was in film school we really, that was a film we really took notice of "..like an art film rather than a proper film."

Unless..you are referring to a different interview.

The good thing is..it gave me an excuse to pull out my Anthology DVD's to see what Paul said. I haven't watched any of it for awhile, but once I was through listening to Paul talk about Magical Mystery Tour, I had to watch for awhile longer. It's addictive and hard to turn off. Thanks !

 

Oh yes, he was. I think our point is, he doesn't have to be so defensive about his artyness and namedrop the various people he does to sort of defend his creative avante garde nature. John gets the credit for being the way out creative artist, and I think that still bothers Paul but with the diverse catalog of work Paul has been responsible for, he has nothing to prove. His catalog of work proves it for him.

 

I don't wish to be rude, but I think some people here need to learn a bit about "avant garde" music & its timeframe. There's nothing particularly "ahead of its time" about any Beatle going to a John Cage or Karlheinz Stockhausen performance in the mid 1960s or playing their records. Believe it or not the music existed & had enthusiasts all over the world when Paul & John were still schoolkids, & then some.

 

Boy, you're gonna carry that weight.

 

I don't think anyone here will be offended by your comments because unless I missed a post, nobody here has said anything about any Beatle going to a Cage or Stockhausen performance or playing their records or commented about their avante garde status . All that has been said is that Paul mentions these people, perhaps as a way to bolster his artistic credibility. HE mentions them, that's the point.

 

Me too but the Beatles don't seem to like the new format stuff. It's as if they don't want to be contaminated by mere formats so I'd figure it's just plain old DVD. Considering Let It Be was shot on 16 mm film.. it would require some special sort of work to be worthy of flawless Blu Ray... besides.. we'd better just take what we get at this point.. though in my dreams...

Let It Be... Blu Ray 4K Video 3820x1280 surround sound(onkyo 11.2 or yamaha 9.3 format!)

 

True that.. they need another Anthology sized box set of 10 DVD's to collect and properly show the material. I'd watch Let It Be more than once if the crappy musical edits from the original get lost. Also it would be nice if they'd get rid of the cutaways to the street during the rooftop concert. why is the video of George Harrison playing some of his best solos interrupted by some businessman complaining about the noise?!

 

Without a Blu Ray release, forget about it.

 

As a movie, I don't find MMT much more challenging artistically than, say, Give My Regard to Broad Street. They both show some tremendously talented individuals completely out of their element. Kind of like Michael Jordan playing baseball.

Let It Be, because it is real, is much more interesting, and the unreleased clips I have seen are fascinating. Paul, for all his myriad talents, isn't a very good screenwriter, and "avant garde" has never, to my knowledge, been enough to rescue flat, forced screenplays and bad acting.

 

I think that's a bit unfair. Yes, Apple etc release things at a glacial pace, but:
Yellow Submarine was just released on blu-ray (& DVD)
The stereo albums were released in high-res digital files
Love - their last 'new' release - was released on surround-sound DVD-A.

Not to mention that Paul's last handful of albums/reissues have all been available as high-res downloads, as was George's latest reissue (All Things...).

There's many criticisms to make of the ongoing release strategy of Beatles material, but it's not really true that they're new-format averse.

 

I absolutely agree! I've been listening to the Beatles for over 40 years now, and it doesn't make much difference to me one way or the other who or what influenced them in the 60s. That information has been discussed and printed and published a million times. And it will be again in Lewisohn's books.

My beef with McCartney is his very strong defensiveness which causes him to endlessly repeat stories from 40 years ago, to yet again prove to the world how great he is. He really should show a bit of humility (like George Harrison did) and get over himself!

And by the way, French is my first language and so I know all about "avant garde". Listening to McCartney using the term ad nauseam since the late 60s just grates on the nerves. He should take a page from Bob Dylan's book and learn to be quiet once in a while.

Sorry if this is all off-topic. But the non-stop ego might again rear its ugly head in the supposed new release of Magical Mystery Tour, which I will of course buy.

 

If they have an HD version of Let It Be, they will use it. The Blu-Ray market is getting bigger and it would be a missed opportunity not to release it. Yellow Submarine was released on Blu-Ray, anyway.

 

We don't know all of the releases for the 4th Quarter yet. I'm sure more announcements are forthcoming. That's why I suggested a possible other thread.

 

With regard to these two films, I've only seen excerpted footage from each, as shown in the Anthology DVD series. Let It Be looks potentially far more interesting to me.

For those of you with the early 80s release of LIB in some other format or boot DVD, how long is the running time?...It will be interesting to see if the upcoming release will be longer.

 

I've been feeling this way about lots of releases lately, but having waited so long for a Let It Be DVD, I'd still buy it if it was all that was released. I'd be disappointed, but I'd get it.

 

when it's announced on TMZ I'll believe it.

 

I'd take a DVD release in a heartbeat just to have them.

 

blu ray isn't standard so I really don't get this "if it ain't on blu" comments. I don't see how blu will ever get as accepted at dvd. Physical media will be dead by then.

 

Steven Spielberg didn't go to film school.

 

Actually, Spielberg did, but it was Cal State Long Beach, and he never graduated. Couldn't get into UCLA or USC, because his high school grades were too crappy. I was at the 1994 ceremony where the head of USC gave him an honorary degree, and the dean told Spielberg, "Steven, we would've let you in if you had only told us who you were!" And that brought down the house.

I'll believe news about a Magical Mystery Tour and Let It Be reissue when it appears on Beatles.com. Nothing there at the moment.

http://beatles.com/#/news

 

Yes, he went to school. He majored in English at Long Beach. Didn't go to film school, though. He made his little movies on his own time and on his own dime.

 

Is this going to be the Definitive edition on CD??

Perhaps thread by the OP was to be made in "Visual Arts"?