The famous film producer wasn’t sure if filmgoers would shell out money for two separate 90-minute features, so the two films were edited together to create The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them.

"The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" is the collective title of three films with different perspectives directed by Ned Benson. There’s “Her,” about Jessica Chastain’s character, Eleanor ...

In “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them,” a very bad thing happens to husband and wife Conor and Eleanor (James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain), so they separate. And each goes home ...

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.

But “Eleanor Rigby’s” most direct antecedent may be British director Waris Hussein’s 1973 telepic “Divorce His, Divorce Hers,” which employed the same structural device to depict the ...

Taylor Swift said The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” is “about what all these people in this town are doing and how their lives intersect.” Paul McCartney revealed his feelings about it.

In Benson’s original conception, “Rigby” would be split into two separate films: “Him” followed McAvoy’s Conor while “Her” devoted itself to Chastain’s Eleanor as their lives ...

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 ...

Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy’s ‘Eleanor Rigby’ Is a Beautiful Movie – But Does it Measure Up to the Original Version? Cannes 2014: Director Ned Benson unveils a new, trimmed-down ...

Eleanor Rigby does have the last day of her life in the final verse of the song. You don’t know it’s coming, but when it comes, so, too, does sense. The death tracks.

Sheet music for ‘Eleanor Rigby’, illustration by Klaus Voorman, artist and musician, a friend of the Beatles from Hamburg. Little, Brown and Company ...