– reissued Beatles film takes long and winding road to eventual acclaim

The Beatles in the restored version of Let It Be, a film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg said ‘didn’t get a fair shake’ on release.The Beatles in the restored version of Let It Be, a film director Michael Lindsay-Hogg said ‘didn’t get a fair shake’ on release.and the film’s director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg.

Furthermore, Get Back made Lindsay-Hogg himself look like a bit of a ninny, ceaselessly cajoling the Beatles to perform a filmed live performance in an amphitheatre in Tripoli – “Torchlit! In front of 2,000 Arabs!” – undaunted by various Beatles telling him to stick his idea, and indeed the Beatles apparently splitting up in front of him: his reaction to George Harrison quitting the band midway through filming was to recommence badgering a shattered and tearful-looking Paul McCartney about the...

But he is, and delightfully, it’s not long before he’s returned to his favourite subject: 55 years later, he still seems to think the film’s biggest failing was its noticeable lack of torchlit Arabs. “2,000 people in an amphitheatre! People would have come across the desert!” he enthuses, then adds, sadly: “I almost had it, the amphitheatre.

But the restored version burnishes its reputation on its own. It’s certainly a flawed film, not least in the fact that it presents its footage entirely without context. It never explains what the Beatles were doing – rehearsing for a projected live special and being filmed for an accompanying behind-the-scenes documentary – which amps up the sense of aimlessness that haunts the Twickenham sessions.

From the Observer archive, 24 May 1970: the Beatles’ Let It Be is a bore. Thank heavens for the musicIndeed, you could argue that Lindsay-Hogg rather pulled his punches, or had his punches pulled for him – by his account, Let It Be was an hour longer before the Beatles saw it and demanded cuts. You see the argument between McCartney and Harrison, but not the latter walking out, nor do you hear McCartney and Lennon’s covertly taped discussion about replacing him with Eric Clapton.

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