The Hours and Times

The Hours and Times

A fly-on-the-wall account of John Lennon and The Beatles’s manager Brian Epstein’s single night in a Catalonian hotel room is reimagined within a queer reality by American filmmaker Christopher Münch, morphing an otherwise pedestrian evening into a tantalizing will-they-or-won’t-they set on the brink of the Beatlemania that would change them both forever. Though Münch believed the film to be nothing more than an exercise, it was accepted at major festivals such as Toronto, Berlin, New Directors/New Films, and Sundance, where it won a Special Jury Recognition Award the same year the legendary Barbed Wire Kisses panel took place in Park City.

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Christopher Münch. WITH: David Angus, Ian Hart, Stephanie Pack, Robin McDonald. 1991. 57 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with Oscilloscope Laboratories and Sundance Institute.

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