Re: Let It Be DVD? Now you've got your answer...

louis14 wrote:


Sloppy writing makes this article entirely useless.

Do they mean that extra "never before seen" footage was going to be added to the DVD version of the film, but now will not be because PM and RS objected? If so, why do they then only talk about the mainstream film and imply that the whole DVD release has been stopped?

I actually don't need to see any more footage of GH arguing with PM, or JL looking bored or RS falling over stoned at the drum kit, or YO in any context at all.

Just clean up the picture and sound, add the full rooftop concert as the bonus material (and the only bit which anyone will watch more than once), and put it out for Christmas. What's so hard about that?


I watched the film "Let It Be" a few years ago was after many years of not having seen it. The copy I viewed was an atrocious pirate of the lasar disc (I think), and it was depressingly cold and claustrophobic looking, due to the double-cropping and the appalling transfer which made it look dark and yellowed. Like you say, the only bit that seems to have merit is the rooftop bit.

But I say restore it from the original negs, remaster the sound, present it in its original aspect ratio, uncropped, and straight away it will feel better.

But, at the same time, Beatles be damned, I say, let's see all the arguments and stuff, let's also have an extended version with all the bonus material.

I would love to have the rooftop footage intercut with some of the more negative vox pops on the street, like:

Interviewer, "This is the first Beatles public performance for some years."
Girl, "You call that public !? ... I can't see them."

and

Girl, "What's the fee ?"
Int, "Nothing."
Girl, "Well, we're not going to be interviewed then !"
Int. "What do you think of the music ?"
Girl2, "Fantastic, lovely, when does it come out ?"
Int. "Very shortly."
Girl2, "So why is it up on the roof, with all that money they've got ?"
.

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