The Beatles 'Let It Be' re-release, begins streaming on Disney+, May 8, 2024*

I also prefer to have as little grain as possible; and I liked the look of *most* of Get Back. But there are a couple of handfuls of scenes in which the “cleaning up” is so overdone that in its own way, it looks worse than the grain. There’s a scene in particular I keep thinking of on the rooftop just prior to all four Beatles getting up there. It’s a distant shot in which Lindsay-Hogg actually looks like a bad hologram. By contrast, other scenes look quite good.

 

It is considerably longer but a better way of putting it is an “alternate”. It expands on the original film but mostly with footage not in the original.

 

Can we expect an official announcement today?

 

Or Gene Simmons.

 

Reissue of Let it Be Naked on vinyl please.

 

The Beatles

Official announcement

 

The story is up on the Beatles website: The Beatles

 

Crazy to see this day finally come.

 

For archival purposes:

 

No announcement about a probable physical launch

 

Beatles' 'Let It Be' Film Heads to Disney+, Restored by Peter Jackson

 

Cue meltdown

 

Fantastic news. I’m so grateful

 

I'm not gonna have a meltdown but I am a little disappointed there is no mention......but I cant recall one with Get Back either tbf,

 

I hope Park Road Post have restored this film as meticulously as they did James Cameron's True Lies...

 

Peter Jackson's Grain Scrubber™: check

MAL treatment: check

 

Don't you know..? She was on the street down below when they were playing on the Rooftop..

 

A physical release in time for Christmas is practically guaranteed.

I have Disney+ for Star Wars so looking forward to watching this on the day it comes out.

 

I only subscribe to it for a month from time to time, whenever they have accumulated anything worth watching.

 

I do exactly the same thing, I'm currently doing a 3 month locked in deal for £1.99 a month so I can watch Bad Batch.

Will try to hunt down another deal for Acolyte!

 

At this stage of the game, all I really want to see is the complete Rooftop performance from start to finish without any street cutaways or cab drivers chit chat. I respect PJ's work and his obvious love for the subject, but the split screen affect used for the Rooftop with 6 mini screens on show at anyone time was just confusing and migraine inducing. Oh, and the sneak peeks of the performances from the following day shown in the end credits would be a nice touch to have in their entirety too..

 

If there is gobs of bonus footage to go with it, bring it on.

 

And its release is only 4 weeks away! What a gift.

From reading various quotes, it looks like Peter Jackson restored the original movie (which ties in with what I remembered him saying back when Get Back came out, he remastered it at the same time). So the grain boys won’t be happy :

“I’ve always thought that Let It Be is needed to complete the Get Back story. Over three parts, we showed Michael and the Beatles filming a groundbreaking new documentary, and Let It Be is that documentary — the movie they released in 1970. I now think of it all as one epic story, finally completed after five decades. The two projects support and enhance each other: Let It Be is the climax of Get Back, while Get Back provides a vital missing context for Let It Be. Michael Lindsay-Hogg was unfailingly helpful and gracious while I made Get Back,and it’s only right that his original movie has the last word …looking and sounding far better than it did in 1970.”
- Peter Jackson

 

Indeed, unhappy grain boy here. I'm happy for all you mushy wax boys though!