Richard Lester

...Ave. N.E., Seattle; 206-781-5755 or www.landmarktheatres.com. And finally, this weekend's midnight movie at the Egyptian is Richard Lester's Beatles classic "A Hard Day's Night" (now 45 years young), featuring the Fab Four and Paul's...

In this article: Seattle, A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles, and Seattle Art Museum

...Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rhys Ifans, both fine, who take turns stealing scenes as Mr. Curtis gamely invokes the spirit of Richard Lester ("A Hard Day's Night") and, every so often, throws in another meaningless aerial shot of the ship.

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...screaming, seemingly unappreciative fans. So maybe it was the band growing tired of the grind. Perhaps Richard Lester is right when he remembers the "massive" amount of pot being smoked by the band during Help! It could be that, like...

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...Bogart "The Maltese Falcon" was the THIRD version of that story put on film and undoubtedly the best. Also, the 1973 Richard Lester version of "The Three Musketeers" was not the first by a couple and in my opinion, clearly the best as...

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...sensibility. That being said, one of my favorite adaptations of a book is the two-part version of "The Three Musketeers" that Richard Lester did in the early '70s. While staying fairly faithful to the novel, the movie is also fun and modern...

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Richard Lester (born January 19, 1932) is an American -born British -based film director possibly most notable for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s. Lester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was something of a child prodigy,...

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...by Lennon and McCartney and featuring 12-string guitars and acoustics to enrich the sound. Written as the soundtrack to a Dick Lester-directed film of the same name, with the title coming from a "Ringo-ism". Beatles For Sale - By now...

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...film was an enjoyable romp, so much the better-- John Lennon asked for A Hard Day's Night director Richard Lester on the basis of a comedy short he'd made (later referenced in the film's famous "Can't Buy Me Love" sequence), but Lester had...

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...the mid-to-late-1960s don't age well - they're atrociously lit, with a pace that now seems dead sluggish - but Help!, directed by Richard Lester with his compulsively flip TV-commercial velocity, is never less than breezy; it wears its...

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The Beatles (left to right, Paul, George, Ringo and John) in a still from their 1964 film 'A Hard Day's Night', directed by Richard Lester The Beatles - yes, it's them again. This once peculiar, slightly corny word coined by John...

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