Vanaf 8 mei as. is de originele Bealtes-documentaire ‘Let It Be’ te zien op Disney+.
De door regisseur Michael Lindsay-Hogg gemaakte documentaire is ook al gerestaureerd door Peter Jackson, de man die ook verantwoordelijk was voor het ruim zeven uur durende ‘Get Back’, in feite een uitbreiding van Lindsay-Hogg’s film.
Linday- Hogg wijt de negatieve reputatie van zijn documentaire aan het feit dat die in première ging vlak nadat de Beatles uiteen waren gegaan: ‘ ‘Let It Be’ was ready to go in October/November 1969, but it didn’t come out until April 1970. One month before its release, The Beatles officially broke up. The people went to see ‘Let It Be’ with sadness in their hearts, thinking, ‘I’ll never see the Beatles together again. I will never have that joy again, and it very much darkened the perception of the film.
But, in fact, how often do you get to see artists of this stature working together to make what they hear in their heads into songs? And then you get to the roof, and you see their excitement, camaraderie, and sheer joy in playing together again as a group and know, as we do now, that it was the final time, and we view it with the full understanding of who they were and still are and a little poignancy. I was knocked out by what Peter was able to do with Get Back, using all the footage I’d shot 50 years previously.’
Ook Jackson is erg positief over de oorspronkelijke film en betoont zich een rare gentleman: ‘I’m absolutely thrilled that Michael’s movie, ‘Let It Be,’ has been restored and is finally being re-released after being unavailable for decades. I was so lucky to have access to Michael’s outtakes for ‘Get Back,’ and I’ve always thought that ‘Let It Be’ is needed to complete the Get Back story. Over three parts, we showed Michael and the Beatles filming a groundbreaking new documentary, and ‘Let It Be’ is that documentary — the movie they released in 1970.
I now think of it all as one epic story, finally completed after five decades. The two projects support and enhance each other: ‘Let It Be’ is the climax of ‘Get Back’, while ‘Get Back’ provides a vital missing context for ‘Let It Be’.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg was unfailingly helpful and gracious while I made ‘Get Back’, and it’s only right that his original movie has the last word … looking and sounding far better than it did in 1970.’
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