Goodfellas director Martin Scorsese appears pretty prominently throughout the new Beatles documentary on Disney+, Beatles '64 — but why?

With his new, high-profile Disney+ rock documentary, the great filmmaker Martin Scorsese has done something few would have believed possible: he has made the Beatles boring.

Director David Tedeschi takes vérité footage shot by the Maysles brothers and incorporates it into a meditation on what the Beatles meant in 1964.

Before Taylor Swift and the cult of Swifties took over pop culture, The Beatles created a similar craze in 1964 with Beatlemania. Their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show remains iconic (even Boygenius paid homage to it during their SNL appearance).

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Beatles ’64’ director David Tedeschi, and co-producers Martin Scorsese and Olivia Harrison shared what they loved about the new documentary at a recent premiere screening of the film.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Beatlemania… but maybe it’s been a while. “Beatles ’64,” the new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary on Disney+, aims to recapture the shrieks that greeted the Beatles’ arrival on American shores at the beginning of 1964.