“Paul McCartney: Man on the Run” will be shown in theaters, Feb. 19.
“Paul McCartney: Man on the Run,” a new documentary about Paul McCartney’s early years as a solo artist, will be shown in movie theaters, Feb. 19. For locations and times, in New Jersey and elsewhere, visit manontherun.film.
The film was directed by Morgan Neville, whose previous works include 2014’s Oscar-winning “20 Feet From Stardom,” about some of the music world’s leading backing vocalists; and 2018’s “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?,” about longtime “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” host Fred Rogers.
“Paul McCartney: Man on the Run” debuted last year at The Telluride Film Festival in Colorado. Reviewing it then, for Variety, Chris Willman wrote that it “is a heck of a lot of fun to watch, if you aren’t still so married to your worn copy of Plastic Ono Band that you can’t acknowledge the obvious: If there had been no 1960s (imagine no Beatles, it’s easy if you try), McCartney would still have to be acknowledged as one of the premier craftsmen of 20th-century pop, even if it’d just been ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ as his foot on the starting block. With that already as a given for many of us, Neville’s movie serves as a splendid jukebox, offering rapid-fire clips that bowl you over anew with just how rapidly McCartney’s own synapses were firing on ingenious hit after hit.”
A bonus short film featuring a conversation between McCartney and Neville will be shown at the Feb. 19 screenings as well.
Here is the trailer for “Paul McCartney: Man on the Run”:
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