I Wanna Hold You Hand
Stephen X. Carter
Hand - <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077714/>) although I'd heard a fair
bit about it.
IMHO enjoyable, not a lot more. Funny in parts, unfunny in others.
Two things struck me about it though...
1) This 1978 (released 1985) movie used real and actual Beatles
performed music in the soundtrack. How much did they pay for that?? Or
was 1985 before the usurious licence deals came into place.
b) It depicted 1964 New York. Only New Yorkers around in 1964 can
answer this one. How good was the depiction? (Aside: It was on a
double bill with The Who's Quadrophenia, which was filmed in Shepherds'
Bush London, and Brighton - both places I know intimately - and that
movie was fantastically perfect in depicting the time and place).
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> Oddly, until last night, I'd never seen this movie (I Wanna Hold Your
> Hand - <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077714/>) although I'd heard a fair
> bit about it.
>
> IMHO enjoyable, not a lot more. Funny in parts, unfunny in others.
>
> Two things struck me about it though...
>
> 1) This 1978 (released 1985) movie used real and actual Beatles
> performed music in the soundtrack. How much did they pay for that?? Or
> was 1985 before the usurious licence deals came into place.
>
> b) It depicted 1964 New York. Only New Yorkers around in 1964 can
> answer this one. How good was the depiction? (Aside: It was on a
> double bill with The Who's Quadrophenia, which was filmed in Shepherds'
> Bush London, and Brighton - both places I know intimately - and that
> movie was fantastically perfect in depicting the time and place).
Watched ABC2?
Robert Zemeckis's first film.
It's a bit like a claustrophobic American Graffiti.
There was an Australian movie with a story that seemed a bit similar,
going by vague memory. Toni Pearon is in it I think.
I was wondering if all The Beatle's songs used would have been heard at
the time, after looking up the early album releases in the US on Wikipedia.
Misery and There's A Place weren't heard for a while I believe, though I
might be mistaken from what I read.
That goofy guy with the room was in Spielberg's 1941 just after that, I
don't think his career went much further.
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Eric Ramon
haven't seen the film but as to Misery and There's a Place, they were
on the VeeJay album Introducing the Beatles and were as well known as
anything else by the time the Beatles got to New York.