“It is not a dark, miserable affair. It is a quite liberating movie.” So said 83-year-old American film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg, one of the great early pioneers of music videos, at the New York ...

Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s unloved — or misinterpreted? — 1970 documentary, the source for Peter Jackson’s “Get Back,” will stream on Disney+. By Alex Williams In 2021, the director Peter Jackson’s ...

Jackson used hours of outtakes from Lindsay-Hogg’s footage to assemble “The Beatles: Get Back.” During the publicity campaign for that project, he repeatedly vowed that his fresh treatment of the ...

In 1970, it looked like a portrait of the Beatles breaking up. Now it looks like the first rock 'n' roll reality show — and a vision of them coming together. The Beatles, in their early years, looked ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

After being officially unavailable for decades, one of the most maligned rock documentaries ever is finally being re-released. It deserves a second look. But Get Back definitely changed the way people ...

Let It Be, now streaming on Disney+, represents the fully realized version of director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s original documentary, which he shot in 1969 as The Beatles wrote and rehearsed for what ...

On May 8, 1970, The Beatles released their final album together, fittingly titled Let It Be. The album contained some of the ...

Few albums captured the end of an era quite like Let It Be. More than five decades later, The Beatles’ final studio chapter ...