A Hard Day’s Night –

Director-Approved Blu-ray Special Edition

Directed by Richard Lester

Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would showcase their revolutionary talent on the big screen. Playing slapstick versions of themselves, the band captured the electric moment they became the irreverent idols of their generation and transformed popular music forever. Directed with wild, inventive energy by Richard Lester, and featuring classic songs like “A Hard Day’s Night,” “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should Have Known Better,” and “If I Fell,” this film redefined the movie musical and laid the groundwork for modern music video language. It remains one of the most deliriously entertaining films of all time.

Key Features

• Three audio mixes: monaural, stereo, and 5.1 surround, supervised by Giles Martin at Abbey Road Studios
• Uncompressed monaural and stereo soundtracks, plus DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
  
• Audio commentary featuring cast and crew
• In Their Own Voices – 1964 Beatles interviews with behind-the-scenes material
• You Can’t Do That – 1994 documentary with outtake Beatles performance
• Things They Said Today – 2002 documentary with Lester, George Martin, Alun Owen, Gilbert Taylor
• Picturewise – program on Lester's early work
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1960) – Oscar-nominated short
• Anatomy of a Style – 2014 analysis of Lester’s methods
• Interview with Beatles biographer Mark Lewisohn (2014)
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Booklet featuring essay by critic Howard Hampton + 1970 interview excerpts with Richard Lester

Special Features