Submitted Photo The documentary “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years” will be shown Saturday and Tuesday nights.

The next feature film in the Opera House Cinema Series is the documentary “The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years.” It will be screened on Saturday and Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Directed by Ron Howard, the film documents the first part of The Beatles’ career (1962-1966) — the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. Howard’s film explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become the extraordinary phenomenon, The Beatles.

It chronicles their inner workings — how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together — all the while, exploring The Beatles’ unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities.

In addition, the film screening includes an exclusive 30-minute remastered performance of The Beatles’ Shea Stadium concert! This will not be included in the DVD when it is released later this month.

G. Allen Johnson, in the San Francisco Chronicle, calls the film “a must for any fan!”

Dave Calhoun, in Time Out magazine, calls it “sparky, moving and funny!”

Paul de Barros in the Seattle Times, says “using home-movie footage in hotel rooms, fly-on-the-wall tape from the studio control room, Howard’s film often succeeds in making you feel it all from the four lads’ astonished point of view.”

Peter Travers, in Rolling Stone, says “Howard’s film rightly keeps coming back to the music and the band’s delight in making it. Good move. It truly is a joy forever.” Unrated, “The Beatles” runs two hours, 17 minutes.

The Opera House Cinema Series is sponsored by Lake Shore Savings Bank. Tickets are available at the door for $7 (adults), $6.50 (seniors & Opera House members) and $5 (students) the night of each screening.  A book of 10 movie passes is available for $60 at the door or online at www.fredopera.org. For more information, call the Opera House Box Office at -679-1891.

The Opera House is equipped with individualized closed captioning headsets for the deaf as well as with assistive listening headsets for the hearing-impaired. Simply request one from any usher or Opera House staff member. Headset funding provided by Robert & Marilyn Maytum, the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, the Dunkirk-Fredonia Lions Club, and by a grant from Theatre Development Fund’s TAP Plus program in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts.

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House is a member-supported not-for-profit performing arts center located in Village Hall in downtown Fredonia.

For a complete schedule of events, visit www.fredopera.org.