A Hard Day’s Night (PG)

11 October, 2025 at 4:00 pm

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 bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day’s Night, in  which the bandmates play cheeky comic versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever. The film is directed with raucous, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester and features a slew of iconic pop anthems, including the title track, Can’t Buy Me Love, I Should Have Known Better and If I Fell. A Hard Day’s Night reconceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video and is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of all time. 

Dir. Richard Lester / 1964 / 87 mins. / English language / Starring The Beatles and Wilfred Bramble. 

Organised by Showroom Cinema in association with Off the Shelf Festival of Words

Info here about an associated talk with author Ian Leslie about his book John & Paul on Sat 11 Oct at 2pm, as part of Off the Shelf.