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PMA Films: "Beatles on Film": A Hard Day's Night (1964)

  • Portland Museum of Art 7 Congress Square Portland, ME, 04101 United States (map)

SCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM

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No movie has had a greater impact on the way people looked. The music of course is immortal.
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

87 minutes. Rated G. Directed by Richard Lester. In English. DCP.

Discounted $7 tickets are available to Beatles Night concertgoers. Presented in partnership with Chris Brown, The Walrus, and Beatles Night.

Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day’s Night, in which the bandmates play cheeky comic versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever. Directed with raucous, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester and featuring a slew of iconic pop anthems, including the title track, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should Have Known Better,” and “If I Fell,” A Hard Day’s Night, which reconceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video, is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of all time.

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