Richard Lester

Oh, we Americans just love taking credit for everything, don't we? MOMA 's latest film series The Sixties: Yanks in Britain looks at the heyday of British cinema and what we did to make it so great! ... Full Article

The final concert in the film is shot with six cameras; one of them was placed amongst the crowd of screaming girls. At the end of four days shooting the scene, the camera operator had to be taken to his... ... Full Article

NOW THAT INDIANA JONES has officially demonstrated he can still flex his muscles at the box office, don't be surprised if a new wave of crusty old action heroes are summoned out of retirement. ... Full Article

The best youth-culture movies of the 1960s mix grooviness with unease. Richard Lester's "A Hard Day's Night" harbors genuine melancholy beneath its irresistibly frothy faade. In two of his subsequent '60s time capsules 1965's "The Knack and How To Get ... Full Article

Born in Philadelphia but based, from early adulthood, in England, filmmaker Richard Lester began his career in British television, where his fondness for absurd humor led to a professional relationship with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, of the hit radio... ... Full Article

The Symbionese Liberation Army was the worst revolutionary group to ever exist. Largely self-imagined and, save for several crimes in the mid-'70s, rather ineffective, the SLA were more literary than anything else. ... Full Article