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I WANT THIS FILM ON DVD!

posted 20 years ago by RiffFan924
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There are quite a few rockumenatries I want on DVD!

I want Let It Be released because I want to see them recording the album and something to throw my darts at (Yoko Ono for ruining the Beatles, Yoko you ruined the best band ever!)

Another movie I want brought to DVD is Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones. I want to see that brought to DVD because I borrowed it from a friend and I want to hear it in 5.1!

ALL FOR WANTING LIB on DVD Reply and tell me what you think!

[–] boowallace 20 years ago

I woulda surely thought that it would come out on DVD following the Let It Be: Naked album. I guess it either fell through or something is stalling it from being released on DVD. It would sure make lots of money. Just don't understand why it is taking soooooo long.

[–] 13sabbath 20 years ago

It's MADDNESS that this isn't released on DVD yet! Total MADDNESS! What in the hell is wrong with whoever owns the rights to this??? RELEASE IT !!

[–] serendigity 20 years ago

Hi Guys,

I have heard that the remaining two Beatles and Yoko Ono were never happy with this film and had no part in the editing. I have heard that Apple Corps still has the rights to this film and ALL the original film sequences (including heaps and heaps that was not used) and are intending to REMAKE the film by doing a total re-edit based on the song-crafting creative process and not the bickering within the group...

Who knows whether this is the right approach? I for one would really really like to see the entire rooftop concert sequence uncut. This was the last ever live performance of the Beatles and deserves to be seen in full - not just a few songs.

I would also like to see the live performace at Shea Stadium in it's entirity on DVD - I have seen a few excerps from this and it was filmed from multi-angles with good quality colour film stock and good sound and would make a great DVD music issue...

Lets hope for Let It Be on DVD soon!

Steve

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[–] Dont_fuk_with_the_Fett 20 years ago

I managed to find it on ebay.co.uk, I can't tell wether it's bootleg or not but nontheless, it plays well enough, so that's probably the best you'll find until they decide to give it an official release.
Anybody got any news on that, by the way ?

I'm a Drummer, not a Wet Nurse - Ringo

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[–] TheRowdyMan 20 years ago

"I have heard that the remaining two Beatles and Yoko Ono were never happy with this film and had no part in the editing."

Not ture. I fact all the Beatles where there for the first cut of the film (a whopping 210 minutes!) however John did not attend the viewing of the second cut.

I have heard that Apple Corps still has the rights to this film and ALL the original film sequences (including heaps and heaps that was not used) and are intending to REMAKE the film by doing a total re-edit based on the song-crafting creative process and not the bickering within the group...Who knows whether this is the right approach?

I believe yes and no. Yes this film is badly in need of a re-edit (I'll state my reasons below in a reply post) but I don't think cutting out the bickering would help (what bickering, by the way? That one scene between Paul and George?).

"Goddamn motherf..ker got blood all over my best clown suit."

[–] boowallace 19 years ago

So what is holding this film back if it isn't the surviving members of the Beatles/Yoko Ono, or Apple Corps? It would have been a great follow up to Let It Be Naked, would it not?

[–] brendanchenowith 19 years ago

Ringo alluded to the fact that the film stock is not in the best shape and cleaning it all up has been, so far, a very daunting task. That'as the most credible story I've heard yet, and it makes sense. The movie looks like Yoko wiped her mouth on it.

[–] el_txucho 19 years ago

Most likely a film that has been in storage for so long is going to need one hell of a cleaning, not to mention restoration of lost colors, digitalization, etc, etc.
Also, i find it funny that people generally blame Yoko for the breakup. Cmon, be realistic, the band was going to die anyway, wether or not Yoko had come into the picture. Blaming Yoko is the most biased, close minded, and in some instances, racist thing a person can do, and its shameless, banal scapegoating.

[–] teenytinygnome 19 years ago

I agree with el txucho. I mean come on people bands rarely stay together forever with out ending up completely hating each other... Ringo said himself that BANDS BREAK UP it's no one's fault. Yoko just happened to be there but she loved John and John loved her, George really didn't care one way or another he saw his friend was happy really happy (and finally happy too he was always the depressed one) so he was okay with it, Ringo fully accepted her I mean hell he gave them his apartment to use so they had a place to go, Paul was the only one with a real problem with her. But still that DID NOT break them up. Isn't it better that they remained friends by ending the band instead of hating eachother forever? I mean really everyone needs to grow up about that.

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[–] el_txucho 19 years ago

McCartney didn't sell the songs to Jackson, he was outbid for them, he didn't want Jackson to have the publishing rights for them, obviously.

Also, I reckon that its only natural to want a proper credit for something that took lots of time and effort to create, not to mention the fact that Lennon's estate is also being petty by not agreeing to change some of the credits to reflect who wrote them SOLO. It's not like he's changed strawberry fields to "McCartney/Lennon", and its not going to make the songs worse or better if someone's name is written before the other, they will still be the same gems they always were and always will be.

It doesn't matter if you're smart, dumb, ugly, pretty... it's all the same once you're dead...

[–] BlackGoldMustang 16 years ago

Update (8/1/08)

In case you missed it, Abbeyrd's Beatles Page got an exclusive comment Thursday morning from an Apple spokesman countering the stories that say Paul and Ringo have stopped the release of "Let It Be" on DVD. "We do have plans to release it some time in the future," is what the spokesperson told us.

http://abbeyrd.best.vwh.net/news/725letitbeagain.html

[–] jefgg 9 years ago

An anonymous industry source told the Daily Express in 2008 that according to Apple insiders, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr blocked the release of the film on DVD. The two were concerned about the effect on the band's "global brand ... if the public sees the darker side of the story. Neither Paul nor Ringo would feel comfortable publicizing a film showing The Beatles getting on each other's nerves ... There's all sorts of extra footage showing more squabbles but it's unlikely it will ever see the light of day in Paul and Ringo's lifetime."