Hard Day's remaster

Rating: 10/10 (22 July 2014)

Thanks to the brilliant BBC 4 premiere of the 2014 remaster I have regained my former enthusiasm for this film in spades and am now suffering from an attack of Beatle mania. I can't wait to see the film again, only this time at a movie theatre, which will be a first for me, as in 1964 my father took my brother and I to see it at the Woolton Picture House in Liverpool; little did we realise that John Lennon lived around the corner and so there was a huge queue of people waiting to see the movie. We got all the way up to the front so that we could see into the foyer when we heard the usher proclaim: "FULL UP! NO SEATS LEFT INSIDE!". So that was it. I had to wait until it came on TV many years later to appreciate the greatness of this film. It is revolutionary,innovative, charming, hilarious and an absolute blast! And the songs aren't bad either,to put it mildly. To think it does all this on a U (US G) certificate. As a Liverpool person I have no trouble with the accent and in addition to documenting Beatlemanis it is also peppered with slang we all used at the time. It wasn't just the Beatles who said "Gear" and "Come 'ead".It was all of us in Liverpool. The music sounds better than ever due to the remastering. It felt more like a modern film produced about the era than a 50 year old classic. This is all credit to Dick Lester masterful direction. He truly captured "lightnong in a bottle."