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‘The whole human condition is encased in the story’: why Beatles films just keep coming
Midas Man and One Hand Clapping are just the latest in a stream of movies telling a story we seemingly can’t get enough of
And on the horizon is Sam Mendes’ mammoth Beatles tetralogy – one film each for John Lennon, McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr – planned for release in 2027. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library Limited/AlamyPaphides identifies the Anthology TV series and accompanying album release in the mid-90s as the point when interest in the Beatles began to mushroom. Get Back, Peter Jackson’s eight-hour restoration of the footage shot by Michael Lindsay-Hogg for the Let It Be sessions in 1969, is a case in point; in the run-up to Lindsay-Hogg’s original film’s 50th anniversary in 2020, Apple asked Jackson to examine the raw footage sitting in its archive, and a combination of the pandemic and the director’s enthusiasm for what he found turned the project into arguably the TV event of the year.
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