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| A Hard Day's Night |
While we were in New York, word got out that a freshly restored version of the Beatles' first motion picture
"A Hard Day's Night" will premiere at the TCM Classic Film Festival in
Hollywood 10-14. April. After this, it is expected to be released as a DVD and a Blu-ray. We've mentioned it before, and there's still no official word from Apple Corps Ltd, but independent British distributors
Second Sight Films have confirmed that they are working on a Blu-ray release, according to Blu-ray.com. According to a tweet from
Giles Martin which we have mentioned earlier, he seems to have been involved in some capacity, and no doubt that will be in the sonic department. We also hear that long time film and audio restoration expert
Ron Furmanek is involved.
Related to this, a BBC TV-show
"The One Show" is making a documentary about "A Hard Day's Night". They have been looking for extras from the original film, and are soon set to be shooting some new scenes at
Marylebone Station, where the opening sequences of "A Hard Day's Night" were filmed. This of course, parallells the Arena TV-special that was shown during the promotion of the restored Magical Mystery Tour. So, still no word about any home video release date, but the world premiere of A Hard Days Night was July 6th, 1964, so perhaps they are timing it to that particular 50th anniversary?
TCM Classic Film FestivalBlu-ray.com
