McCartney's "Man on the Run" to Screen at Loyola

Paul and Linda McCartney, courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios

Students can see the Prime Video documentary on Paul’s transition from Beatle to Wing.

Morgan Neville’s documentary Man on the Run will debut on Amazon Prime on February 27. The film tells the story of Paul McCartney’s journey from The Beatles to Wings, and it showed last fall during the New Orleans Film Festival, where tickets were in such high demand that they had to schedule a second screening.

On Tuesday, February 10 at 7:30 p.m., the New Orleans Film Society will host an advance screening of Man on the Run in the Nunemaker Auditorium on the Loyola campus, with McCartney’s manager Scott Rodger on hand to answer questions.

Tickets are on sale now, and 100 have been set aside so that Loyola students can see the film free. Use the promo code LOYOLA100 at check out. Attendees with student tickets will need Loyola ID to enter.

In Chris Willman’s review for Variety, he wrote, “‘Man on the Run’ is a heck of a lot of fun to watch, if you aren’t still so married to your worn copy of ‘Plastic Ono Band’ that you can’t acknowledge the obvious: If there had been no 1960s (imagine no Beatles, it’s easy if you try), McCartney would still have to be acknowledged as one of the premier craftsmen of 20th-century pop, even if it’d just been ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ as his foot on the starting block.”