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Imagine: John Lennon...
SOMEWHERE along the line, the makers of Imagine: John Lennon must have asked themselves the following: how do you make a documentary about someone so well known that he was, in his own words, "bigger than Jesus Christ...
According to Imagine producer David Wolper, camera-wielding fans and interviewers made John Lennon the most filmed personage in history. His records and interviews revealed his most personal thoughts and feelings to a public that came to think it was on a first-name basis with him. How, then, do you make a documentary on a man's life whose most obscure details are universally known, especially when you have thousands of hours of footage from which to choose...
...control over the final product, Imagine could well have been the definitive film about John. Unfortunately much of the footage is ill-chosen, and at an hour and a half, the film is much too short. Still, while Imagine fails as a comprehensive biography, it may help neophytes understand Lennon's appeal, and fans may find Imagine a poignant and occasionally amusing exercise in nostalgia...
Author Albert Goldman strips bare the best and brightest of the Beatles in his controversial biography The Lives of John Lennon...