The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
The band you know. The story you don't.
The band you know. The story you don't.
Documentary, Music
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2016
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The Beatles stormed through Europe's music scene in 1963, and, in 1964, they conquered America. Their groundbreaking world tours changed global youth culture forever and, arguably, invented mass entertainment as we know it today. All the while, the group were composing and recording a series of extraordinarily successful singles and albums. However the relentless pressure of such unprecedented fame, that in 1966 became uncontrollable turmoil, led to the decision to stop touring. In the ensuing years The Beatles were then free to focus on a series of albums that changed the face of recorded music.
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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
106 min
Release date:
15 Sep 2016
Country:
GB, US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$5
Revenue:
$12,283,800
Awards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys. 5 wins & 14 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
[Howard seems] as if he were intent on making a film for anyone who tuned in to The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, fell in love with the four adorable mop tops and regrets all the long-haired plonking about with sitars that came later.
– Tom Shone,
Newsweek,
22 Sep 2016
fresh:
The Beatles now belong to an honored past, stuck there like an obelisk, and yet here they are, alive-busting out all over, time and time again. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
19 Sep 2016
fresh:
90 percent familiar and a bit hagiographic as well, but just try watching it without smiling.
– Neil Genzlinger,
New York Times,
15 Sep 2016
fresh:
Ron Howard's documentary rightly keeps coming back to the music and the band's delight in making it. Good move. It truly is a joy forever.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
15 Sep 2016
fresh:
Don't expect trenchant analysis or deep insights into the group's creative process. Do revel, however, in the gleeful tumult and the gorgeous music.
– Joe Morgenstern,
Wall Street Journal,
15 Sep 2016