329: A Hard Day’s Night Re-Examined with Samira Ahmed

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Sixty two years ago, The Beatles cinematic debut arrived , putting the world on notice that their charm and talents were adaptable to virtually any medium. A Hard Day’s Night, directed by Richard Lester, has gone down in film history as “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals,” a stunning work as fresh and captivating as the day it was premiered, and yet it was done on a small budget with novices as the film’s leads, with no certainty whatsoever that anyone would be interested in them by years’ end.