Rob Sheffield on the weird legacy of the Beatles 'break-up film'
has always been dismissed as the band’s tombstone. It’s a movie that people regard as a disaster but hardly anyone has actually seen, just likecame out in May 1970, right when the Fabs were splitting up, and went down in history as their “break-up film.” All four refused to show up for the premiere. Apple has kept it officially unavailable for decades. It’s barely been seen in the past 50 years.
Part of the doc’s bad rep was how cheap and grainy it looked. It was shot for Sixties TV, on 16-mm film. But when Allen Klein decided to make it a movie, the 16-mm footage got blown up to 35-mm for the big screen. So it ended up looking like one long technical glitch. Jackson digitally refurbished the original footage for, using the same MAL de-mix technology for the music, so it can finally look and sound like the Beatles..
That pretty much set the tone for the movie’s reputation. It dashed the hopes of a worldwide audience still hoping this break-up was just a temporary spat.in San Francisco, on the advice of his therapist, a month after it came out. Nobody noticed a Beatle in the theater, because nobody was there. He went with Yoko, Rolling Stone’s Jann S. Wenner and his wife Jane, right before the historicinterview. “Just bought tickets and went in,” Wenner said. “It was empty, afternoon, and during a weekday.
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