Crediting filmmaker Peter Jackson as his “silent partner,” Lindsay-Hogg reveled in the opportunity to restore his film in the wake of "Get Back" (2021), the three-part treatment that Jackson assembled from Lindsay-Hogg’s original footage. As Lindsay-Hogg pointed out prior to the screening, outside of the "Let It Be" project, “there had been no documentation of these amazing four guys who changed the history of music.” Indeed, beyond Lindsay-Hogg’s footage, we have scant imagery of the Beatles crafting their timeless music in the studio.
As it happens, "Let It Be" is the result of one of the strangest, most labyrinthine journeys in the history of cinema. In May 1970, when Lindsay-Hogg’s documentary was originally released, the world was in mourning. Scarcely a month earlier, Paul McCartney had announced the Beatles’ disbandment. Hence, moviegoers understandably viewed "Let It Be," along with the film’s soundtrack, as epitaphs of sorts.
