The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

Love.

As the audience slowly left the Jacob Burns Film Center after the sold-out premiere of the new Ron Howard film, The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years, the word heard most often was love. Yes, we loved the film, but we especially loved The Beatles.

The film combines footage from their live performances around the world (166 concerts in 90 cities across 15 countries), their epochal February 1964 appearance on CBS' The Ed Sullivan Show, and many very funny and endearing behind-the-scene moments where the Fab Four laugh in wonder at their popularity and success. This narrative runs in parallel with the band's album releases, demonstrating their evolving song-writing and recording brilliance, the unprecedented cultural phenomenon of Beatlemania, and their profound love for each other.

A bonus after the film was a screening of a new digitally remastered 4K print of The Beatles' full performance at New York's Shea Stadium before 56,000 fans in September 1965.