A Hard Day's Night

“Though the motive behind A Hard Day’s Night was simply to generate new records, it turned out to be an extraordinarily original amalgamation of virtually all previous forms of rock ’n’ roll film. The combination of the Beatles’ music, Lester’s use of techniques associated with cinéma vérité and the French New Wave in a hybrid documentary/fictional form, and the photographer and editor’s audiovisual compositions made it enormously influential. The successful synergy between film and soundtrack album marked a major advance in the integration of the cinematic and musical components of the culture industries.”