1972's Imagine was part-longform music video for John Lennon's Imagine and Yoko Ono's Fly albums, and part-bonkers conceptual art film. We try and get to the bottom of it: does it mean anything, and does a work of art's meaning have to be intentional in order to be, well, meaningful? Plus some key themes: mass isolation, intimacy in celebrity, male femininity through submission: sure, why not? 

• You can watch the 2018 remaster on Prime Video at the moment.
• The trailer for the 2018 cinema release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThIhgBloqN0
• The chess scene, set to Yoko's Don't Count the Waves: https://youtu.be/nVRhtWfJqXQ
• The video for the song Imagine: https://youtu.be/YkgkThdzX-8
• OK, so we weren't 100% correct about Situationism, but give us a break: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International 
• The chess scene in Bottom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f64qJorLrY
• The Marina Abramović work similar to Yoko's Cut Piece is Rhythm 0, in which she stood for six hours and invited the audience to use 72 objects to do whatever they wanted to her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_0

Meet the Beatles Films Podcast

The Beatles Films Podcast is hosted by Matt Looker and Ed Williamson. We're both film writers and Beatles fans. Between us we've written for TheShiznit.co.uk, Total Film, Den of Geek and Virgin Media.

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