BFI 'Rip it Up' - Hard Day's Night + live music from August

Part of the BFI's "Rip it Up" x Theatreship season, screening films celebrating the youth driven movements which have defined our cultural identity, the agonies and ecstasies of growing up in Britain, and the issues facing the next generation. For this event we are screening Hard Day's Night, the black-and-white British comedy that follows the Beatles through a frantic, semi-fictionlised 36 hours - a film that shaped decades of music cinema.

Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester)

Rating: U

Duration: 87 minutes

A landmark of British cinema and one of the defining films of the 1960s, A Hard Day's Night captures the Beatles at the height of Beatlemania in a whirlwind 36 hours of rehearsals, press appearances, devoted fans, and a live television performance. The film blends documentary-style immediacy with anarchic comedy, creating a fresh and influential portrait of youth culture, celebrity, and pop music. Packed with iconic songs and infectious energy, A Hard Day's Night remains a joyful, endlessly inventive celebration of the band that changed popular culture.

The film will be followed by a live performance from August - a five headed beast living in a couple of hard to pin down apartment blocks between Harry Nilsson, Tom Waits, Beck, and TV on the Radio.The New York-Bermuda-Sheffield-Essex-Devonian outfit have been dragging their no-seconds-wasted medicine show across London the last year, garnering them some smiles and even a few waves.

Organised by Theatreship