“The Beatles: Get Back” is all the rage at the moment, as Oscar-winning “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson’s docuseries shines a new light on the most iconic band in history.
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On Friday, Disney+ debuted a preview clip from Peter Jackson’s upcoming three-part documentary “The Beatles: Get Back”.
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Created using hours of footage from the British band’s “Get Back” sessions, the series takes fans reveals how the lads from Liverpool recorded what would become their final album, Let It Be.
In the clip, the band
“The Beatles: Get Back” is all the rage at the moment, as Oscar-winning “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson’s docuseries shines a new light on the most iconic band in history.
Chances are that you had a few extra guests over the Thanksgiving holiday – namely John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back,” was a three-night Thanksgiving event on Disney+, one that featured previously unseen material from the lead-up to their last-ever live public performance, is astounding and eye-opening, an intimate portrait of larger-than-life creative titans.
The Beatles’ Get Back three-part docuseries was almost a little different, as Disney wanted to remove the swearing in it.
NME in a recent interview.Walt Disney Studios originally acquired the documentary project in 2020, but as Jackson continued editing during the pandemic, he pitched the studio on extending the planned feature film into a documentary series so he could fully display all he had uncovered.
For the last couple of years, filmmaker Peter Jackson had assured Beatles fans who have waited over 50 years for a “Let It Be” reboot that his version was going to be more about the joy and camaraderie, and less about the in-fighting and tensions that were eating away at the Fab Four during the January 1969 recording of the group’s final studio album. But there were conflicts, and that’s what makes Jackson’s seven-hour-plus homage into a historical event worth watching. Classic conflicts that
Peter Jackson has defended the hefty runtime of his new documentary series The Beatles: Get Back, admitting he wanted to include everything “important”.The newly-released three-part Disney+ series saw the Lord Of The Rings director wade through 60 hours of footage from Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 film Let It Be, which covers the making of the band’s final studio album.However, each episode of the documentary still comes in at between two and three hours long, with the whole series running at 468
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The Guardian last week, Jackson said he was sought out by Apple Corps – the company which has handled The Beatles’ business affairs since 1968 – because of his interest in virtual and augmented reality technology.
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Disney wanted to remove all swearing from his The Beatles: Get Back documentary, but were convinced otherwise by Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.The director’s three-part film charts the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’, and shows their final concert on London’s Savile Row rooftop in its entirety.Speaking to NME, Jackson recalled Starr and McCartney’s first reactions to the documentary, who, to the director’s surprise, didn’t ask for any changes to be made.“When they got
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Let’s get this out of the way quickly: no matter how boring, predictable, rote and maybe Dad-rock-y it may sound to some, The Beatles remain one of the greatest bands of all time. The group was a towering collection of musicians who wrote the blueprint for almost all of the modern rock and pop genre, bold experimentalists and one of the first bands to use the studio as an artistic instrument.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticHow does anyone, especially a Beatle, write a melody? The answer may be as simple as it is mysterious. In “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s sprawling and revelatory fly-on-the-studio-wall documentary, there’s a great moment when we get to see it happen.
NEW YORK -- For 50 years, the fixed narrative had the Beatles' “Let it Be” recording session as a miserable experience with a band where members were sick of each other, sick of their work and in the process of breaking up.The nearly 8-hour, Peter Jackson-produced documentary culled from film and recording outtakes of those sessions instead reveal a self-aware band with a rare connection and work ethic that still knew how to have fun — yet was also in the process of breaking up.The “Get Back”
It’s not quite as arduous as Hobbits venturing to Mordor to destroy Sauron’s ring, but Peter Jackson’s immersed himself four years to bring to life the end of the long and winding road of The Beatles. The result is the 7-hour The Beatles: Get Back, which Jackson culled and restored from 60 hours of studio sessions and a rooftop concert.
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The Beatles, Get Back, saying it will make the legendary band “seem young again”.The three part film, which is coming to Disney+ this week (November 25), focuses on the making of the band’s penultimate studio album ‘Let It Be’ and showcases their final concert as a band, on London’s Savile Row rooftop, in its entirety.The film has been cut from 55 hours of unseen footage, filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg in 1969, and 140 hours of mostly unheard audio from the recording sessions.