Post by peregrine9 on Oct 7, 2011 2:41:45 GMT 1
The Washington Post - Lifestyle
October 4, 2011
In Scorsese’s TV ode, Harrison remains an elusive Beatle
“George Harrison: Living in the Material World” is Martin Scorsese’s tender examination of the life of the quiet Beatle. It is exhaustive and loopy and it takes two nights to watch — Wednesday and Thursday on HBO.Early on, Scorsese almost does something that would have been heretically bold but also smooth. There is a photograph of the Beatles together in their earliest days, before the Cavern or Hamburg, when it was just a bunch of adolescents in a skiffle band playing at church picnics. A baby-faced Harrison is among them, barely a teenager. That shot is then quickly followed by a scene where, surrounded by lawyers, Harrison and Paul McCartney jovially sign the paperwork that begins the litigiously endless dissolution of the Beatles.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-scorseses-tv-ode-harrison-remains-an-elusive-beatle/2011/09/27/gIQA8sogLL_story.html
October 4, 2011
In Scorsese’s TV ode, Harrison remains an elusive Beatle
“George Harrison: Living in the Material World” is Martin Scorsese’s tender examination of the life of the quiet Beatle. It is exhaustive and loopy and it takes two nights to watch — Wednesday and Thursday on HBO.Early on, Scorsese almost does something that would have been heretically bold but also smooth. There is a photograph of the Beatles together in their earliest days, before the Cavern or Hamburg, when it was just a bunch of adolescents in a skiffle band playing at church picnics. A baby-faced Harrison is among them, barely a teenager. That shot is then quickly followed by a scene where, surrounded by lawyers, Harrison and Paul McCartney jovially sign the paperwork that begins the litigiously endless dissolution of the Beatles.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-scorseses-tv-ode-harrison-remains-an-elusive-beatle/2011/09/27/gIQA8sogLL_story.html