I was unimpressed. The majority of the Paul and Ringo quotes were 5 years old and of little consequence. It's a minor error, but repeatedly calling "Two of Us", "The Two of Us" really got on my nerves. The article suggests that Jackson MAY be doing, in part, a documentary about the making of a documentary, but even that was unclear. Misattributing the "boatload of mental deficients and three dwarves" comment to Ringo, I guess is a minor error, but it would be so out of character for him and is so IN character for John that I think it qualifies as an embarrassing blunder. Not really worth the read, IMO. On the positive side the contemporary interview bits with Lindsay-Hogg were vaguely interesting. He's all on board for Jackson's work, and he mentions that both The Beatles and UA wanted edits to his rough cut - the former wanting less focus on John & Yoko and the latter wanting "more music, less talking".
I'll assume/hope/pray the movie will have the whole 42'ish minutes of the rooftop Concert on Blu ray/DVD. It won't bug me if they played some of the same songs a few times...
Just my two cents: every insider here must have been told to shut up, basically, by the powers that be until further notice. As it’s been suggested, decisions are being made now, plans are being discussed and I don’t know if we’ll hear from them until waters are quiet. I could be wrong, just guessing, but...
Well, no one has shut me up yet. So I can supply all the insider information that you could wish for. But I don't have any...
Which means we will still receive actual Beatle news on the same schedule as before, when the press release comes out.
Could be similar to what he did for his They Shall Not Grow Old documentary, which had a brief 15-minute rundown of the restoration process post-credits. I thought it was very interesting, and I think an even longer program was aired on television.
A PJ Doc on the history of how this film came about, the release, the shelving, the cancelled announced release and how this project began with maybe a phone call from Paul to Yoko? Could be a block buster. Maybe this delay is because this movie is going to be great and they want to reap the max rewards.
I stayed for the featurette, it was well worth it. IMO, you can’t do a “documentary about the making of the documentary” without touching on the negative elements (including George’s departure) that are being bypassed by design.
It just makes sense to me that they want to maximize the box office takings, by having a "in theatres only" window at a time when people may feel more comfortable about going to the theatres. A lot of people in fandom circles are calling for a digital release, but they need to realise that within a day or two of streaming, good quality pirated copies will appear online. While it's in theatres only, the only pirated copies would be very dodgy handicam/cellphone/tablet-filmed - recorded in stealth from in the theatre, and close to unwatchable.
You have a point. I’m a fan, I began searching for a copy of LIB (the movie) when I was 18 in 1990: I asked a guy at Tower Records in London. His response was: “er, man, it’s not available, sorry” . Now I’m 47, got four pirate (including the 1992 Furmarek remaster) copies of the movie on DVD and still I am waiting. At this point ok: time passes quickly by, let’s wait a bit more BUT.. I want a damn good movie, I want it big and as complete as possible. As for the LIB50, I still think Christmas time is perfect for a release of it. I am nobody of course but these are my two cents.
Anybody checked out the Let It Be footage someone posted on You Tube a few days ago. Included in the 33 minutes is four minutes of footage that appears to be from the January 10 jam with Yoko after George split the group. I've never seen any jam footage before. Some of it isn't synced up to the audio but a lot of it is. Ringo drumming like a maniac, Paul getting feedback out of his Hofner, Yoko shrieking "John" over and over. Has any of this been out in the ether before? It may have but it was new to me. Here's a link before it gets yanked:
The January 10th jam footage surfaced in the ‘80s around the time of “Yoko Ono: Then and Now”, which was released in 1984 and contains excerpts of that material.
I heard about the delay on the Beatles channel, and immediately started punching the air as if I was Ali.
This is off topic but i am trapping some feral cats. I post videos for my friends on facebook. I have music playing on my back deck. I have posted videos with rod Stewart's cut across shorty Steely dan your gold teeth The music just happens to be playing in the background by random chance. I posted a video with Beatles got to get you in to my life playing in background. I get notifications of copyright stuff. Do they not recognize rod stewart or steely dan songs. Do they only recognize beatles songs? They are only commenting on the beatles music.
I got dinged on Facebook for my Sun Studios video; a Johnny Cash song was playing at the end of the tour and Facebook said "nope!"
I thought it was weird because got to get you into my life gets a notification but rod stewart (singing eddie cochran song) and Steely Dan dont get mentioned. the music just happens to be playing in the background.
