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    Home»Arts and Entertainment»Sedona International Film Festival»Film Festival presents ‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week’ Sept. 16-20
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    Film Festival presents
    ‘The Beatles: Eight Days a Week’ Sept. 16-20

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    logo_SIFFNew Ron Howard film features the touring years premieres at Mary D. Fisher Theatre

    Sedona AZ (September 7, 2016) – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” — by Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard —showing Sept. 16-20 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.

    We all know the moment, February 9, 1964 at 8:12 PM EST – after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever.  Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night — the largest audience to date in television history.  It was an event that united a nation and signaled the birth of a youth culture as we know it today.  But while this single performance introduced The Beatles to America — the band had already taken Europe by storm the previous year — what the band did next would introduce them to the entire world, permanently transforming the music industry and forever engraining them into the fabric of popular culture.

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    They went on tour.

    From June of 1962 to the time the band quit touring in August of 1966, The Beatles performed 815 times in 15 different countries and 90 cities around the world. The cultural phenomenon that their touring helped create, known as “Beatlemania,” was something the world had never seen before and, arguably, hasn’t since.  It was the first time that much of the world felt truly unified – bound by aspiration and attitude, rather than divided by race, class, religion or nationality. 

    20160907_beatles-posterFrom Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard, “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” tells the story of these exceptional touring years – from the perspectives of the band, its orbit, the fans, and their world. The film recreates the touring experience through the eyes of the band members themselves, where every stop was an adventure – from early performances in Hamburg to their January 1964 performance in France. It takes us all over Europe and the Far East to Australia – where the group was greeted by hundreds of thousands of avid fans – and Japan. Along the way, the film delves into the inner workings of the group – how they made decisions, created their music, and built a collective career together — as well as the effect those years had on their personal and musical evolution. But while the band created the spark, it was young people around the globe who created the firestorm. The film also explores the incomparable electricity between performer and audience that turned the music into a movement – a common experience into something sublime.

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    Drawing from more than 100 hours of rare and unseen footage collected from fans, news outlets and national archives, as well as the Beatles’ private collection, “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” crafts a cinematic experience unlike any Beatles film that has come before, and unlike any other documentary. In addition to multiple new and in-depth interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr as well as a host of names with direct experience of the times – Whoopi Goldberg, Elvis Costello, Larry Kane, Dr. Kitty Oliver among others, the film also includes 12 full and partial performances from the concerts.  These have been elegantly re-cut and re-mastered in high-definition and 5.1 surround sound and are the closest thing an audience can get to experiencing the band play live.

    This film is the story of The Beatles’ journey to the top of the world, fueled by their live performances, music, and extraordinary personalities – and how they made the remarkable decision to walk away to focus exclusively on writing music and recording it in the studio. It’s the story of a group of artists choosing to reinvent themselves entirely in order to evolve and survive.

    And it was this incomparable work in the studio that resulted in some of the most beloved songs “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” “Strawberry Fields,” “Penny Lane,” and “All You Need is Love,” in the first year alone.  The Beatles’ work became a history-making, unprecedented expression of popular art.  This is the story of the beginning of that remarkable journey and how it came to be.

    “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years” will be shown at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre Sept. 16-20. Showtimes will be 4 on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16 and 17; 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 18; and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20.

    The film screenings are sponsored by BMO Harris Bank.

    Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.

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