Actor · Composer · Producer · Voice actor · 1943–2001

George Harrison

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A Hard Day's Night

Richard Lester · 1964

Richard Lester’s 1964 musical comedy captures the Beatles during Beatlemania’s peak, using a fictional 36-hour sprint to concert performance as scaffolding for their music, wit, and chemistry. Shot in black-and-white with vérité energy, it prioritises rhythm over narrative, performance over psychology, and spontaneity over polish. Though thin on character depth and social critique, its influence on music video and ensemble comedy remains profound. It remains watchable not as nostalgia, but as a masterclass in tonal discipline.

13:00

Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Terry Jones · 1979

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) is a British comedy directed by Terry Jones, written by the full Python troupe, and produced by HandMade Films after EMI withdrew funding. Set in Roman Judea, it follows Brian Cohen, mistaken for the Messiah despite having no interest in prophecy or power. The film targets institutional rigidity, sectarian infighting, and the absurdity of uncritical belief — not faith itself. Shot in Tunisia, edited tightly by Julian Doyle, and scored with solemn restraint by Geoffrey Burgon, it remains a benchmark of structural satire: dry, disciplined, and deeply unsentimental.

13:00

Withnail and I

Bruce Robinson · 1987

Withnail and I (1987) is a British black comedy written and directed by Bruce Robinson, following two unemployed actors — Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann) — as they spend a disastrous weekend in a remote Lake District cottage owned by Withnail’s eccentric uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). Shot on location in Cumbria and Hertfordshire, it uses precise dialogue, naturalistic cinematography and period-accurate music to chart a mood of late-1960s drift, addiction and fragile male friendship. Though now regarded as a cult classic, it resists easy classification: it is neither farce nor tragedy, but a tightly observed, linguistically rich study of stasis.

13:00

Yellow Submarine

George Dunning · 1968

The Beatles' animated counterparts, voiced by actors rather than the band themselves, sail to Pepperland to save it from the music-hating Blue Meanies, with the story mostly serving as connective tissue between sequences built around individual songs. George Dunning directed, with art director Heinz Edelmann's psychedelic pop-art style giving the film a visual identity that outlived its plot.