Let It Be (the original fillum, with MAL-enhanced audio) is finally coming to Disney+, five years after it was first promised.
https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/the-beatles-let-it-be-film-confirmed-for-disney/
Let It Be again
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That’s good news. 8th May was the release date of the original L.P.
Well for the 10 Beatles fans who haven’t got an illegal copy this is good news I suppose
The last 25 minutes are good, but it’s a pretty poor watch, far surpassed for me by Peter Jackson’s “Get Back”, only advantage for LIB being full performances of a few tunes recorded day after the rooftop concert (but inserted before) which were not included in full in GB, presumably so there was a market for this release. Couple of those are already available however in good quality on Beatles 1+ and/or Anthology (video version)
Got a hunch that this version will be of a ‘slightly’ higher quality than an illegal copy… and that is what I’m after. Leave the illegal stuff to the mug punters.
True. Won’t make it a better film though. I first saw it summer of 76 on the BBC in presumably decent quality
I’m with the comments below. The original is a brilliant film and far less of a downer than history had suggested. I genuinely found it joyous, and the 80 minutes sped by.
That infamous Paul/George spat is so short I rewound it to convince myself that it was ‘the’ actual spat. It was. I’ve had bigger arguments getting on our local bus.
It would be nice if it could get some kind of limited cinema run… which I would attend more than once.
Yeah, well you shouldn’t be ranting about “dodgers” when getting on your bus!
Main problem with the film is they are just seem bored in the Twickenham part and it’s pretty boring to watch, things pick up at Apple Studios as Get Back also illustrates. I also don’t think it is a well made film, it’s style is of its time, much better could be done with the material as Jackson emphatically proved
The rooftop concert in the original is great though
Nope. Bit torrents can be as high quality as what you have on a UHD Bluray. 10 channel Dolby Atmos if you like.
My version is pretty decent quality, I think ripped from a laser disk and “remastered” . Sure the new streamed version will look and sound better though, no plans announced yet for a physical release, which may mean more torrents will become available
Indeed. I know a man called (let’s say) Adam*, knows someone who can record Disney+ streams and put them on download sites.
(*) for it is his actual name
The days of dodgy quality downloads, illegal or not, are well gone. Not saying that’s a good thing (for me it is) just stating a fact. Movies, TV shows, music are all as good as you can get unless you are at the very, very top end of home equipment.
Probably won’t watch, I’ve seen it once & that was enough and I feel the same broadly about Jacko’s Get Back too.
The Noise Reduction that PJ sanctioned on display was tantamount to defacement of the original 16mm footage. Vexing and wretched treatment, unbecoming of proper archival processes and look for a lot of that to be repeated on this release. Scrubbed free of grain / detail and the participants looking more like ghastly living wax works from Mdm Toussauds.
Apparently, Michael Lyndsay-Hogg made sure with Jackson that this has a filmic quality rather than the look in the Get Back series.
I have a bootleg copy of it (can I say that on a public forum?) after my first watch, I was having some difficulty seeing the “it’s the story of The Beatles falling apart”. Yes, there were some tense moments (eg Paul and George’s famous conversation), but not much niggling and some moments of joy. Get Back gave a longer (and better) view of the whole event (and showed the Paul/George thing in context), and yes it contained much debunking of the Let It Be myth
Saw it on YouTube not so long ago where it briefly popped up. Not the gloomy, squabbling document I was led to believe. Actually quite positive and enjoyable. The passing of time changes perspective. Get Back was brilliant, though, and a revelation. One of the best music documentaries I’ve seen but still I am interested.
You have to view it in the way it was perceived at the time. Before this, the Beatles were seen in interviews as happy, sarcastic jokesters that could do no wrong. Let It Be didn’t fit that mold at all.
Let it be enough, already.
As others have said, this isn’t all the doom and gloom of repute. I have a decent copy on DVD and we watched it a few years ago after not seeing it for ages and it was a surprise at just how enjoyable it is. The whole reputation of it rests on it being released at exactly the time when the break up became public so the two became conflated – we had never seen them in this documentary style before.
Get Back was an epic undertaking and rightly praised, but it is bloody long – Mrs. T won’t sit through that too often.
I remember seeing it at the cinema (must have been in 1970 I guess) with Yellow Submarine as a supporting feature….two more extreme takes in the Beatles you couldn’t imagine!
It’s a good point, when I saw it (August 1976 in Dolwyddelan), it was the end of series of Beatles films for the school holidays, so it would be a bit of a downer after AHDN, Help! and YS in subsequent weeks. I was just getting into them and found it a bit of a shock, I remember my 11 yr old brother asking me during it if I thought they would go outside and run around like in the other films 🙂 However subsequent viewings didn’t really make me think it was much fun apart from the last 25-30 mins and I really have no interest in seeing it again especially after Get Back.