The Geek Show’s new podcast about pop stars in the movies couldn’t start with any other film. It’s 1964, the Beatles are running away from a mob of schoolgirls, and Richard Lester is about to reinvent the rock and roll movie with A Hard Day’s Night. But how did this landmark in both musical and cinematic history come to be? Join Graham and Joe for a tale involving The Goon Show, banned documentaries, working-class playwrights and a serious loophole in the Beatles’ EMI contract, all somehow adding up to pop movie gold.
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Picking up on the Beatles theme of the first episode, this sees Graham and Mark Harrison unpick Danny Boyle’s Yesterday, an apparently simple high-concept rom-com that, in the hands of writer Richard Curtis, somehow becomes an Escher-esque maze of illogic and unmotivated character decisions. It’s basically the Lament Configuration for film podcasters. PATREON FOR MORE
