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| | The Fifth Beatle - Revisiting the antic music Richard Lester made with A Hard Day's Night. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | The picture was initiated, of course, as a way to extract a soundtrack from the Beatles for less than their going rate; and, thanks to album sales, it was in the fl before it even premièred. |
 | | What he and his screenwriter, Alun Owen, devised was a day in the life of near-prisoners (of an authoritarian society, capitalism, their own fame) who succeed in remaining free—attaining, by virtue of their wit, talent, and integrity, a sort of cheeky state of grace. |
 | | The film will always be in the present tense: a reference point not merely for the birth of the Beatles as a mass phenomenon, but for the emergence of a wildly attractive youth culture that has transformed the world. |
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