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Posts Tagged "John Lennon"

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How I Won the War *** (1967, Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Jack MacGowran, Michael Hordern) – Classic Movie Review 8220

Director Richard Lester’s iconic 1967 British comedy How I Won the War is a frenzied and frantic send-up of war movies, working from a surreal script by Charles Wood, based on Patrick Ryan’s novel. It […]

Mar, 09

Imagine *** (1972, John Lennon, Yoko Ono) – Classic Movie Review 7597

Writer-producer-director-editor-stars John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s surreal 1972 music film and pseudo-documentary Imagine is poignant home movie footage of the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from Lennon’s historic Imagine album and Yoko’s […]

Sep, 18

Nowhere Boy **** (2009, Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, Thomas Sangster, David Threlfall, Josh Bolt, Ophelia Lovibond) – Classic Movie Review 4419

Aaron Johnson (from 2008’s Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging) captures the young John Lennon perfectly in director Sam Taylor-Wood’s inspired 2009 early-years biopic that reveals him as a troubled bunny.   Lennon is shown as desperately […]

Sep, 26

Danny Collins **** (2015, Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer) – Movie Review

Al Pacino finds a great role for himself as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who decides to change his life, quit singing his greatest hits in stadiums and clean up his rock ‘n roll lifestyle act. The […]

Apr, 10

A Hard Day’s Night ***** (1964, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell, Norman Rossington, John Junkin, Victor Spinetti) – Classic Movie Review 1364

For the Beatles’ first and best full-length movie A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Richard Lester directs a cunning, cheerfully anarchic black-and-white documentary-style musical fantasy spun around a supposedly typical day and a night in the […]

Jun, 27

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