The Beatles Films Podcast16 Okt 2023

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

We have a look at May Pang's documentary about her relationship with John Lennon, just released digitally and on blu-ray on 13 October 2023. We talk about perspectives and whether or not there's such a thing as "the truth" in a documentary, and whether that matters. Also we discuss how Yoko Ono comes across in this film and how a critical depiction fits into contemporary Beatles fandom.

We interviewed May Pang about the film back in April 2023, and you can find that episode in this podcast feed.
This episode includes a clip of May Pang's appearance on the Geraldo Rivera show on 5 October 1988. Here's the whole thing, in which he attempts to equate her book with Albert Goldman's notorious character assassination The Lives of John Lennon and is generally a bit of a dick to her, and she stands her ground with grace: https://youtu.be/1OZnsKtLKiQ
Watch the trailer for the film: https://youtu.be/xrQHqTB3qjo
The Kenneth Womack book we mention, which is excellent, is John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Life: https://g.co/kgs/jwHeQT
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19812518/

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