A quick bonus episode to discuss Michael Lindsay-Hogg's film, restored by Peter Jackson's team and released on Disney+ on 8 May 2024.
We discussed the original film at length in our two-part episode at the end of season four.
Let it Be (original 1970 film) (part 1)
Is Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 1970 film as miserable as we thought, having seen Get Back? Maybe the perception that it's negative is a failure of collective memory.
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Let it Be (original 1970 film) (part 2)
Why did John Lennon say this made the Beatles look like Paul McCartney's sidemen? And why did George Harrison laugh when Ringo Starr debuted Octopus's Garden?
But we were lucky enough to get an advance viewing of the restored Let it Be, so we wanted to have a quick chat about the significance of this rerelease. In particular we try and answer the question: Why do we need this when we have Get Back?
We also talk about Jackson and Lindsay-Hogg's introduction, and how it suggests this has been ready to go for over a year, and about the visual and audio distinctions between this restoration and Get Back.
Videos
Watch the trailer:
The featurette with Peter Jackson and Michael Lindsay-Hogg discussing the restoration:
Links
Read Dan Rivkin's excellent post about the Let it Be restoration on his blog, They May Be Parted