Dir. Peter McNamee | Canada | 2008 | 82 mins.

“Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.” - John Lennon

Peter McNamee's debut feature introduces us to undergrad film students Tim and Kathleen. Tim is astonished to discover a rock icon, long thought to be dead, actually alive and living in a remote part of Canada. It all begins when he discovers a clip of an old man playing guitar on a tape left inside an old video camera. The man in the video bears a strong resemblance to John Lennon - that is, John Lennon as he might look today. Could it be him? Tim is excited to the point of obsession. Kathleen thinks the whole concept is ridiculous. Wasn't there some big "Paul is dead!" hoax that all those years ago? But what if Lennon really is still out there? Still singing? Still writing? Imagine! - Vancouver Film Festival

"A clever little what-if exercise... Let Him Be treats viewers to a jaw-dropping mini-concert of songs Lennon might have written had he lived (including a terrific rant-tune about George W. Bush), performed "in-studio" by a band of "locals," fronted by someone who looks and sounds uncannily like an elder Lennon. " - Toronto Sun

Plays with: I  MET THE WALRUS
Dir.  Jerry Leviathain | Canada | 2008 | 5:00 min. | Animation

In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck and a head full of questions, snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview. This was in the midst of Lennon’s “bed-in” phase, during which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. Thirty eight years later, Jerry has produced a film about it which has won accolades at festivals around the world.

Jerry Levitan has just come out with a new book, called I Met the Walrus, which  provides an illustrated account of his exclusive one-on-one interview with John Lennon back in 1969. The book includes, among other things, never-before-seen candid photographs of John and Yoko.   

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