Ongoing Review of Beatles Docuseries by Joe Viglione 1:00 pm exactly on Thanksgiving day.

Let's take a break from dumb Medford politics and stupid lowlife politicians today and be grateful that we always have the ability to sue the bastards in a court of law!

 Ongoing Review of Beatles Docuseries by Joe Viglione 1:00 pm exactly on Thanksgiving day. (1:42 PM posting here.)

Get Back...making the Let It Be film from 50 years ago a blur....in time...

Into 1:13:27 of this "historical document," as the creatures in the film Galaxy Quest would put it, and my first impressions are that the young filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg tapes are essential for any college course on pop/rock songwriting and band interaction after the death of a pioneering manager, Brian Epstein.

That Peter Jackson is unquestionably the Thomas Edison of contemporary filmmaking was obvious before he took on this gargantuan project. Jackson's 2018 war film was equally essential for the after-movie look at how the director put it together. See Wikipedia for a quick synopsis: "They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson. The film was created using original footage of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum's archives, most previously unseen, all over 100 years old by the time of releaseThey Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson. The film was created using original footage of the First World War from the Imperial War Museum's archives, most previously unseen, all over 100 years old by the time of release." (from Wikipedia.)

The scary thing for Beatles fans is that these Linday-Hogg audio and video recordings are now 51 years old, half a century This is historically brilliant, though fans of Kanye West probably won't be watching. The Boston Herald runs an Associated Press review notes "Produced by a Beatlemaniac for fellow Beatlemaniacs, it can be an exhausting experience for those not in the club. But the club is pretty big." Well, that's good copy for the public, though the reality is that Peter Jackson is more of a Beatles professor. Anyone creating film would love to have been in control here, but it is Jackson who is currently "in the groove" and able to perfect the art of the documentary. For those awaiting the new Spiderman and Matrix films out this 2021 Christmas, you won't find the machines creating mayhem, or Dr. Strange for that matter; the machines here serve Master Jackson - and inevitably our viewing experience - quite well. 1:38 pm

That the film forces this journalist to lay bare my writing process is due to the enormous length of the motion picture. I'm at 1:13:27 since early morning (what? after 3 AM I believe) and have 1:23:17 to go, which puts this opening Day 1 segment at 2 hours, 36 minutes and 44 seconds. To be continued.