'A Hard Day's Night' Gets Fab Facelift 50 Years Later
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OMAHA WORLD-HERALD LIVING SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2014 • 7E MOVIES I New this week. his promise while piecing back Stars are by World-Herald critics, four together his estranged family. stars being the best. Deliver Us From Evil New York Police Officer Ralph Sarchie RATED PG investigates a series of Earth to Echo After receiving a crimes. He joins forces with an series of encrypted messages, unconventional priest, schooled a group of kids embarks on an in the rituals of exorcism, to adventure with an alien who combat the possessions that needs their help. are terrorizing their city. How to Train Your Dragon 2 Jersey Boys Director Clint Impressive digital animation, TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX Eastwood casts stage actors strong voice talent and soaring Andy Serkis as Caesar in the fi lm in the movie version of the fl ight sequences lift this sequel, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.” Broadway musical smash, which despite slightly muddled he stays close to reproducing. storytelling and overly fast editing Based on John Green’s best- The hits of 1960s pop group at times. Hiccup and his dragon selling young-adult novel, the The Four Seasons sound great, Toothless must face down a new story is designed to trigger led by John Lloyd Young as THE ASSOCIATED PRESS villain who wants to assemble tears. It does, thanks to Frankie Valli. Musical fans will a dragon army and start a war. romantic chemistry and a terrific enjoy, but this lacks the depth of The Beatles have their hair combed on the set of their fi rst movie production, “A Hard Day’s Night,” in 1964. ### performance by Woodley. ### Eastwood’s best fi lms. ### Maleficent Disney gives a Think Like a Man Too In this Obvious Child Jenny Slate backstory to “Sleeping Beauty,” sequel, the couples are back for a stars in this comedy about a updating its 1959 animated wedding in Las Vegas. But plans single New Yorker’s transition classic with a live-action rewrite. to adulthood, which makes ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ gets for a romantic weekend go awry Angelina Jolie impresses as the when their various misadventures abortion a central issue. Slate’s wicked fairy, bitter over the loss get them into some compromising character loses her boyfriend, of her wings. She curses the situations that threaten to derail then her job, then fi nds she’s daughter (Elle Fanning) of the king the big event. pregnant from a one-night stand. (Sharlto Copley) who stole those fab facelift 50 years later Transformers: Age of Extinction It’s ragged around the edges, wings, but comes to regret it. Fine Great digital and sound effects but Slate and Jake Lacy project BY RANDY LEWIS sion of ‘A Hard Day’s Night.’” the big screen was a spotty one family storytelling. ### vulnerability and heart. ### and some kicking action THE LOS ANGELES TIMES “It’s not as if I’m mixing before the Beatles, with movies sequences can’t make up for Snowpiercer A failed global ‘Avatar,’” he said. “It still should often placing performers in RATED PG-13 bad writing, lack of character warming experiment kills off Given the sacrosanct aura sound like it’s in 1964.” awkward settings by directors America: Imagine the World development and a movie that’s all life on the planet except for that’s developed around pretty In fact, Martin said, “the who often had no feel for the Without Her A story that imagines overlong at 2 hours, 45 minutes. a lucky few who boarded the much everything to do with the advantage of 5.1 is that you can exuberant energy of rock music. that the United States lost the Mark Wahlberg stars as the Snowpiercer, a train that travels Beatles over the past half-cen- actually be more faithful to the “A Hard Day’s Night” director Revolutionary War and therefore human helping the autobots. Jack around the globe, where a class tury, it seems unbelievable that mono. ... The fi lm was in mono, Richard Lester and screenwriter never existed. Reynor, Stanley Tucci and Kelsey system evolves. anything related to the Fab Four and I found it weird that we Alun Owen avoided those pit- I Dawn of the Planet of the Grammer co-star. ## Tammy Melissa McCarthy again might have ever gone missing would be listening to the Beatles falls by channeling the Beatles’ Apes A growing nation of plays a crude loud-mouth whose through the decades. talk and have it all come out of inherent personal charm and genetically evolved apes led RATED R life is a mess, but the script and But in coming up with a 50th the center (channel), but then sense of humor into their script, anniversary, 4K digital resto- by Caesar is threatened by a 22 Jump Street After making comedy don’t measure up to the band would play and the and allowing John Lennon, Paul ration of the band’s beloved band of human survivors of the their way through high school “Bridesmaids” or “The Heat.” music would come out of the left McCartney, George Harrison feature fi lm debut “A Hard devastating virus unleashed a (twice), Offi cers Schmidt and McCarthy is Tammy, who takes and right speakers.” and Ringo Starr the opportunity Day’s Night,” technicians at the decade earlier. Jenko see big changes when a road trip with her alcoholic The restored version expands to improvise many of their lines. Criterion Collection and Janus they go deep undercover at a grandmother (Susan Sarandon) some of the sonic elements but “In this case, the fi fth Beatle Edge of Tomorrow An officer fi nds Films had to work around miss- local college. after losing her job and her keeps the Beatles’ voices at was Richard Lester,” Becker himself caught in a time loop in a ing chunks from the fi rst and marriage. Kathy Bates co-stars. center stage. “It makes for a said, referring to the 82-year- war with an alien race. His skills I Begin Again A chance last reels of the original nega- ##½ more immersive environment,” old director who has given his increase as he faces the same encounter between a disgraced tive. Producer Giles Martin, son Martin said, also noting that for approval to the new restoration. brutal combat scenarios, and music-business executive and UNRATED of the Beatles’ original produc- the DVD and Blu-ray versions, “They trusted him, from his his union with a Special Forces a young singer-songwriter new er, George Martin, also had to viewers have the option of work with Peter Sellers and warrior gets him closer and closer to Manhattan turns into a I We Are the Best! Three girls compensate for a missing stereo choosing between a fully monau- Spike Milligan and the Goons, to defeating the enemy. promising collaboration between in 1980s Stockholm decide to master of their early single “She ral audio mix or the 5.1 surround which they totally loved. The The Fault in Our Stars Shailene the two talents. form a punk band — despite not Loves You” and use the existing version. The discs also include level of freedom you feel in the Woodley and Ansel Elgort star Chef A chef who loses his having any instruments and being monaural recording as part of bonus features, including the fi lm, a lot of that is from some of as teens who meet in a cancer restaurant job starts up a food told by everyone that punk is a new audio mix of the fi lm’s documentary “Things They Said the things Lester introduced.” support group and fall in love. truck in an effort to reclaim dead. Foreign language fi lm. dialogue and soundtrack. Today” and a commentary track Becker said his hope is that All of which serves as a re- drawn from interviews conduct- the wide release of “A Hard minder that in early 1964 when ed by Beatles expert Martin Day’s Night” will in some way Beatlemania was exploding Lewis for the 2002 DVD release echo the shared international worldwide, musical immortality of “A Hard Day’s Night.” experience it created originally. seemed in doubt for the four The fi lm itself “has never (“A Hard Day’s Night” is playing lads from Liverpool. looked this good in theaters,” in Omaha at Film Streams’ Ruth “It was never my dad’s inten- said Criterion Collection Presi- Sokolof Theater.) tion to be digging this up after dent Peter Becker, because “the “There are ways to mess up 50 years,” Martin said this week. prints made in 1964 were two or a restoration,” he said. “You “I know it was his view that three generations away from the can over-produce things, and there would be more Beatles original 35 mm negative.” over-process them to where they ELEBRATIONS projects coming along down the “When you’re working on start to lose their shimmer, lose C line, and that some other young the Beatles, it’s really a dou- their grace, lose their energy. act would fi nd the Beatles’ spark ble-edged sword,” said Lee For this fi lm, that would have and the same (phenomenon) Kline, who headed Criterion’s been a complete tragedy. This is ANNIVERSARIES would be replicated. I think that fi lm restoration team that locat- all about life and liberation and was the case really until about ed the best existing sections of freedom. The Beatles are con- 15 years ago. Now the Beatles the missing original negative to stantly breaking out of rooms, Ludden, 50 years Soll, 50 years have become this cultural phe- use for the restoration.