Coorabell Hall Film Club
Wednesday 7 January

A Hard Days Night

See The Beatles classic on the big screen!!

Food & drinks (Licensed) from 6.00PM
Movie starts at 7.30PM

A Hard Day’s Night
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT 1964

In 1960 Richard Lester made a short film called The Running, Jumping & Standing Still Film, starring Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan and featured a surreal, slapstick style that he would use again in 1964 in A Hard Day"‘s Night.

Screenplay writer Alun Owen wrote the script from the viewpoint that the Beatles had become prisoners of their own fame, their schedule of performances and recording having become punishing.

Lester said, “The general aim of the film was to present what was apparently becoming a social phenomenon in this country. Anarchy is too strong a word, but the quality of confidence that the boys exuded! Confidence that they could dress as they liked; speak as they liked; talk to the Queen as they liked; talk to the people on the train who fought the war; as they liked. ... Everything was still based on privilege—privilege by schooling, privilege by birth, privilege by accent, privilege by speech. The Beatles were the first people to attack this... they said if you want something, do it. You can do it. Forget all this talk about talent or ability or money or speech. Just do it.”

“Today, when we watch TV and see quick cutting, hand-held cameras, interviews conducted on the run with moving targets, quickly intercut snatches of dialogue, music under documentary action and all the other trademarks of the modern style, we are looking at the children of A Hard Day’s Night” – Roger Ebert.