The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

I was lucky to see a viewing of : The Lost Weekend: A Love Story. It's a beautiful documentary following the young May Pang who started as an assistant at Apple Records, moving into a personal assistant position for John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It is a very compelling, raw, sincere story of a young woman who was lightyears beyond her young age of 22. May Pang was instrumental in helping John to have a relationship with his son Julian. May had a special bond with John that I feel helped him immensely. It is extremely well done. I credit May Pang and her producers/directors Eve Brandstein, Richard Kaufman and Stuart Samuels for creating a masterpiece.

I highly recommend it!

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story is an amazing film and May Pang is an amazing woman. As a huge Beatles / John Lennon fan I thought I knew the story. I did not! The Lost Weekend: A Love Story is compelling and beautiful and sincere - as is May Pang herself. And the archival materials!!! Don't even get me started. I highly recommend The Lost Weekend: A Love Story.

And I learned a lot from Lost Weekend as well!

As a music lover of all genres Lost Weekend hits it out of the ballpark. And if you're a Beatles fan and a music fan you will enjoy the behind the scenes look at the group. But of most importance the incredible relationship between John Lennon and May Pang. Watching the old school footage and images that May presents makes the movie so much more real and enjoyable.

It's as if you're really there!

Every element of the story has excitement and passion. And you learn a lot of new things about how the music was made, where the music was played, who worked within and around this legend and legendary band called The Beatles. But from May Pang's perspective.

All you want to get out of a movie like this is something new. And you get it from The Lost Weekend: A Love Story. Definitely a 10!

The 97-minutes fly by as May Pang (with a little help from her friends) shares her memories of not only her 18-month relationship with John Lennon, but the actual 10-year relationship they had. Lennon actually hints at things to come when, on the Dick Cavett Show in 1971, he (twice) name-checked Pang (one of two people who were brought on stage covered in full-length bags) as 'looking lovely.' I was amazed by the amount of never-before-seen footage and interviews. It's a stunning documentary that is so personal it almost seems like a home movie. A must see.

I knew who May Pang was and what the Lost Weekend was, so I wondered what filler they could throw together to make an entire documentary. Boy was I wrong! This is a top-notch story that is engrossing from start to finish. It has archival footage and interviews that flesh out the time period of May's Yoko-ordered time with John.

Her photos may be mere Polaroids but they document a personal side of their time together. Julian Lennon gets to participate as well. May seemed to have been a beneficial part of rejoining him with John. There's a 1974 photo shown of Julian and his crush Jodie Foster. I've never seen such a happy smile like the one he's wearing.

There are also details of May Pang's upbringing, which was not easy. Though this film is aimed at John Lennon fans, I also like it as a time capsule of the 1970s. Not only does it show George Harrison on the Dick Cavett Show, it even shows May sitting in the audience.

We think of the Beatles living in England after the breakup, yet they crossed paths in the United States quite often. This film is a vital piece of Beatles history.