“Beatles ’64” is here.
The documentary, which just debuted on Disney+, investigates the cultural impact of the group’s arrival in America. It’s fascinating and frequently entertaining, utilizing footage that documentary legends Albert and David Maysles shot for a 1964 documentary called “What’s Happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A.,” mixed with other contemporaneous footage (lovingly restored using the same process that Peter Jackson used for “Get Back”) and more recent talking head interviews.
And one of those talking head interviews will surely shock you when, out of nowhere, filmmaker David Lynch pops up to talk about his connection to the band. The last project that Lynch directed was 2017’s brain-breaking “Twin Peaks: The Return.”