We finish off this season with a look at the film's use of footage that's been colourised from black and white. Was this done, as Iain Lee suggested to Ed on his Talk Radio show in 2016, because American audiences don't like black and white? We think there's a bit of mileage in that: more specifically that the brief here was to present this footage to a new audience with a bit of sheen.
We also discuss talking heads in the film like Eddie Izzard, and look at what they contributed, as well as some who appear only in the Blu-ray extras, like Paul Greengrass.
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The film we mention coming to IMAX briefly in April 2025 is One to One: John and Yoko, which we later covered.
One to One: John & Yoko
This documentary from Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards reveals plenty, and evokes the chaos and political turmoil of Nixon-era early 1970s America.
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Here's the full audio of the eight-minute call Ed made to Iain Lee's radio show after they'd both seen Eight Days a Week in the same screening, August 2016: