Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		4.0
Audio		4.5
Extras		1.5
Overall		4.0

Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album Blu-ray Movie Review

Note: This title is available as part of Imagine & Gimme Some Truth.

Universal Music Group is celebrating what would have been John Lennon's 78th birthday on October 9 with the release of Imagine and tangentially related items in a number of formats. That includes a new "two fer" released in collaboration with Eagle Rock Entertainment that gathers together two fascinating films featuring John and Yoko tied directly to Imagine. Those wanting more information on this title and its sibling are encouraged to read our Imagine & Gimme Some Truth Blu-ray review, which contains full coverage and more screenshots from each film included on the Blu-ray disc.

Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of this release is assessed in our Imagine & Gimme Some Truth Blu-ray review. That review also contains several more screenshots from each of the films in this set.

Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of this release is assessed in our Imagine & Gimme Some Truth Blu-ray review.

Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplements included in this release are listed in our Imagine & Gimme Some Truth Blu-ray review.

Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon's Imagine Album Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

While Gimme Some Truth arguably needlessly reuses some footage from Imagine, along with other footage that looks like alternate takes or unused snippets from that "music video", it's the rehearsal and recording footage in this piece which should really capture the eye of devoted Lennon and/or Beatles fans. This is "up close and personal" filmmaking, and it frankly shows John to be a bit of a pest at some times, but amazingly nurturing and sweet at others (his interaction with what amounts to a vagrant fan who shows up at one point is really interesting stuff, even if it once again presents John being a bit crass in some of his responses). Anyone who has dreamt about being a fly on the wall during a Beatles recording session may get at least a taste of what it may have been like courtesy of some of the footage included in this piece, and I can't imagine a Lennon fan not being captivated by Gimme Some Truth.