The Later Career of Richard Lester

Director Richard Lester is best remembered for his delightfully mod films of the sixties, including the Beatles classics A Hard Day’s Night (1964) and Help! (1965)as well as The Knack . . . and How to Get It (1965) and Petulia (1968). In the following video essay, the final part of a supplement titled Picturewise that begins on Criterion’s new special edition of A Hard Day’s Night, critic David Cairns looks at the filmmaker’s neglected work of the seventies, including The Three Musketeers (1973), Juggernaut (1974), and Robin and Marian (1976), as well as his foray into big-budget superhero movies in the eighties. Like the earlier segments, this part features new audio interviews with Lester.