Features
Tuesday, November 10 2009
Yin and Yang: The Beatles - 'A Hard Day's Night' vs. 'Help!'
Aside from such obvious aspects -- including the difference between black and white and color film stock -- the back and forth between the films was also reflective of their burgeoning creative output.
Friday, January 25 2008
The Best Music DVDs of 2007
The last few years have seen some mind-blowing DVD repackaging of a wide variety of musically projects. 2007 is the best yet.
Thursday, January 24 2008
Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List
A lot of good movies are still missing from DVD. Here is a list of 25 that PopMatters feels have been unceremoniously left to simply fade away.
Wednesday, January 2 2008
Paul McCartney – We Believe In Yesterday
Taken together, Help! and The McCartney Years, show the breadth of an artist's career, warts and all. Few have lived a life as well-documented or as successful as Paul McCartney.
Tuesday, June 19 2007
Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking
Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts.
Reviews
Friday, November 2 2007
Help!
The Beatles' second (and second-best) movie, an absurdist romp with Bond-esque aspirations, gets an overdue clean-up on this new double-disc edition.
Monday, July 10 2006
Petulia (1968)
For its many commendable qualities -- qualities long recognized by a sizable cult of fans -- Petulia doesn't quite display cultural insight.
Thursday, August 1 2002
Cuba (1979/2002)
The idea that an individual, like Robin Hood, could stand up for the rights of the oppressed comes across as a pleasant fantasy, worthy of song and legend, but devoid of the means to stand up against state power.
Sunday, January 1 1995
A Hard Day's Night (1964/2000)
A smooth amalgamation of Richard Lester's intricate direction, Alun Owen's hysterical screenplay, and the natural charms of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a film perfectly of its time and perfectly timeless.
Blogs
Friday, March 25 2011
'How I Won the War'...and Lost the Battle?
How I Won the War wanted to be wacky and irreverent. Sadly, it comes across as weird and irrelevant forty some years later.
