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The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years
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Brunswick, ME
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The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years
The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years*
Directed by Ron Howard
2 hrs 9 mins, NR
*with exclusive in-theater only 30 minute concert of the Beatles' performance from Shea Stadium 1965 (included in running time)

We all know the moment, February 9, 1964 at 8:12 PM EST  after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.  Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night  the largest audience to date in television history.  It was an event that united a nation and signaled the birth of a youth culture as we know it today.  But while this single performance introduced The Beatles to America  the band had already taken Europe by storm the previous year  what the band did next would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture

They went on tour

From June of 1962 to the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, The Beatles performed 815 times in 15 different countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon that their touring helped create, known as Beatlemania, was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasnt since.  It was the first time that much of the world felt truly unified  bound by aspiration and attitude, rather than divided by race, class, religion or nationality.  

From Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week tells the story of these exceptional touring years  from the perspectives of the band, its orbit, the fans, and their world. The film recreates the touring experience through the eyes of the band members themselves, where every stop was an adventure  from early performances in Hamburg to their January 1964 performance in France. It takes us all over Europe and the Far East to Australia  where the group was greeted by hundreds of thousands of avid fans  and Japan. Along the way, the film delves into the inner workings of the group  how they made decisions, created their music, and built a collective career together -- as well as the effect those years had on their personal and musical evolution. But while the band created the spark, it was young people around the globe who created the firestorm. The film also explores the incomparable electricity between performer and audience that turned the music into a movement  a common experience into something sublime.

Drawing from more than 100 hours of rare and unseen footage collected from fans, news outlets and national archives, as well as the Beatles private collection, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week  The Touring Years crafts a cinematic experience unlike any Beatles film that has come before, and unlike any other documentary. In addition to multiple new and in-depth interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr as well as a host of names with direct experience of the times  Whoopi Goldberg, Elvis Costello, Larry Kane, Dr. Kitty Oliver among others, the film also includes 12 full and partial performances from the concerts.  These have been elegantly re-cut and re-mastered in high-definition and 5.1 surround sound and are the closest thing an audience can get to experiencing the band play live.

The studio work of The Beatles during this 1000 days of touring grew exponentially in richness and innovation from Please Please Me through to Revolver.  Using studio chatter and outtakes, the film gives an intimate, birds-eye view of the bands creative process at the legendary Abbey Road.  And incredibly, as they left the road at the end of 1966, their studio output grew in power, innovation and exploration, changing the face of recorded music and defining their place in culture.

This film is the story of The Beatles journey to the top of the world, fueled by their live performances, music, and extraordinary personalities  and how they made the remarkable decision to walk away to focus exclusively on writing music and recording it in the studio. Its the story of a group of artists choosing to reinvent themselves entirely in order to evolve and survive.

And it was this incomparable work in the studio that resulted in some of the most beloved songs Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, and All You Need is Love, in the first year alone.  The Beatles work became a history-making, unprecedented expression of popular art.  This is the story of the beginning of that remarkable journey and how it came to be.

**All tickets sales are final.  No refunds will be given.  If a show is subject to a cancellation, we will notify you of the rescheduled date as soon as we are made aware.

Location

Frontier (View)
14 Maine Street
Brunswick, ME 04011
United States
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Film > Movies

Kid Friendly: Yes!
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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On BPT Since: Nov 30, 2011
 
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