US EditionReview: 'Man on the Run' Chronicles Paul McCartney's Post-Beatles Long and Winding Road
Morgan Neville’s documentary uses unseen private footage and interviews to explore Paul McCartney’s challenges and achievements in the 1970s post-Beatles decade.
- On Saturday, Prime Video is premiering 'Man on the Run,' a Morgan Neville documentary about Paul McCartney, using new interviews and vintage footage. Neville is an Oscar winner for '20 Feet From Stardom' and directed biographies of prominent figures.
- The film centers on the 1970s, covering the decade after McCartney left The Beatles through John Lennon's death, and emphasizes the man behind the music rather than his creative process.
- Relying almost entirely on vintage footage, the film shows McCartney, an executive producer, provided unseen private material and recorded only audio interviews with him.
- Joining recent Beatles-related documentaries, the film uses McCartney's music to present his post-Beatles years as an impressive, inspirational second act for audiences and historians.
- The documentary details McCartney's public disputes, including his feud with Lennon, legal fights over Allen Klein, Wings' formation, his jail in Japan, and the 'Paul is dead' rumor.
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‘Paul McCartney: Man on the Run’ Tells One Side of the Story
Will the appetite for Beatles-related documentaries one day reach its end? Perhaps, but for now there’s still plenty of supply. The latest entry is “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run” (on Prime Video), which focuses squarely on a particular Beatle — McCartney — in the years following the band’s breakup. Really, this is a Wings documentary, but as with the man at its center, it can never really escape the penumbra of the Fab Four. The director Morga…
Review: 'Man on the Run' chronicles Paul McCartney's post-Beatles long and winding road
If Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back was the supreme document of the Beatles’ final moments together and of their dissolution, Morgan Neville’s Man on the Run is a kind of sequel.
How did the bassist, author and composer of the world's largest pop group look for and find his way after the breakup of the Beatles in 1970? This is what Morgan Neville's documentary to see on Amazon Prime tells.
Director Morgan Neville signs a bright documentary about Paul McCartney's post-Beatles period.
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