‘Beatles ’64’: Director David Tedeschi on Making Beatlemania Something to Scream About Again for New Disney+ Documentary

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic I scream, you scream, we all scream for Beatlemania… but maybe it’s been a while. “Beatles ’64,” the new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary on Disney+, aims to recapture the shrieks that greeted the Beatles‘ arrival on American shores at the beginning of 1964.

Under the direction of David Tedeschi, the film brings back the tears of hysteria that accompanied the band’s every move in the U.S., and generates some fresh tears from some of its contemporary interview subjects, who tell how the band’s advent changed their lives.

Tedeschi spoke with Variety about some of the work that went into the film, which contains a lot of footage shot at the time by the documentary world’s legendary Maysles brothers, as well as some other archival film finds and modern interviews. This is premiering on Thanksgiving weekend.

That seems to be a good weekend in recent Disney and Apple and Beatles history, with “Get Back” premiering on the same weekend three years ago.