There are plenty of stories about the origins of The Beatles' song "Eleanor Rigby." Legend has it that Eleanor Rigby was a fictional character — that the two names were chosen by Paul McCartney based ...
Paul McCartney says singing The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” makes his past flash before his eyes. He revealed why he doesn’t want to retire. The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” was more popular in the United ...
The gimmicky title is doubly misleading: “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” is neither a mystery nor Beatles-themed, but it is an elegantly wrought tale of anguish. In outline, the film is ...
“Eleanor Rigby’ is a depressing song by The Beatles, who typically write upbeat, optimistic music. In an interview with GQ, Paul McCartney said that the idea for the story of “Eleanor Rigby” was based ...
We've seen some fairly weird Beatles-related memorabilia auctioned off over the years, but there's always something even stranger just waiting to be sent to the auction block — as evidenced by the ...
Serenely melancholy but unfailingly melodramatic, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby is a tone poem to love and loss that goes on too long. Writer-director Ned Benson shows a happy couple in an ...
one views, loss remains the overriding theme. Director Ned Benson explores its far-reaching effects in this portrait of grief. But what looms largest is the sense of abiding loss of a potentially ...
A version of this review ran during the 2013 Toronto Intenrational Film Festival. A shorter version of “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” (titled “Them”) was released earlier this year. “Him” and ...
Filmmaker Ned Benson has been working on his “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” project for over 7 years. Having met Jessica Chastain 10 years ago, during a film festival where she saw and fell in ...
More than 50 years after The Beatles broke up, the music made by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr continues to inspire and intrigue fans old and new. And beyond the music, ...
'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby' tells a single love story three different ways. McAvoy talks about starring alongside Jessica Chastain in the HIM portion of Ned Benson's three film project. We ...