There are plenty of stories about the origins of The Beatles' song "Eleanor Rigby." Legend has it that Eleanor Rigby was a fictional character — that the two names were chosen by Paul McCartney based ...

Paul McCartney says singing The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” makes his past flash before his eyes. He revealed why he doesn’t want to retire. The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” was more popular in the United ...

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. In outline, the film is ...

Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys said he was “addicted” to The Beatles‘ “Eleanor Rigby.” Subsequently, he explained why he felt the song resonated with people. Notably, the track inspired a statue made ...

Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece “Rashomon” heralded the term “Rashomon effect,” which refers to the contradictory nature of different perspectives telling the same story (something that has been employed ...

We've seen some fairly weird Beatles-related memorabilia auctioned off over the years, but there's always something even stranger just waiting to be sent to the auction block — as evidenced by the ...

Hearing John Lennon’s “No Reply” in the autumn of 1964, music publisher Dick James remarked to the songwriter that he—and the Beatles—were making progress. Asked what James meant, the publisher ...

A version of this review ran during the 2013 Toronto Intenrational Film Festival. A shorter version of “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” (titled “Them”) was released earlier this year. “Him” and ...

one views, loss remains the overriding theme. Director Ned Benson explores its far-reaching effects in this portrait of grief. But what looms largest is the sense of abiding loss of a potentially ...

'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby' tells a single love story three different ways. McAvoy talks about starring alongside Jessica Chastain in the HIM portion of Ned Benson's three film project. We ...