Martin Scorsese’s Beatles ’64 is bloated, pretentious and full of recycled footage
The message that The Beatles were more than just a rock band is reinforced as Scorsese and Tedeschi wedge in contemporaneous interviews with Leonard Bernstein (who is all for the Beatles) and philosopher Marshall McLuhan, who sagely tells us JFK was “the first TV President”. No doubt he was – but what has that to do with Macca and the gang?