“Man On The Run” documentary screened at the Nashville Film Festival

In February 2023, “Man On The Run,” a new documentary directed by Morgan Neville and focusing on Paul McCartney’s life and career during the 1970s, was officially announced.

The film premiered on August 30, 2025, at the Telluride Film Festival. 

On this day, “Man On The Run” was screened on the opening night of the Nashville Film Festival.

From The Movie Blog, September 21, 2025:

”Man on the Run” opened the 56th Nashville Film Festival on Thursday, September 18th at the Green Hills Regal Theaters. Based on access to never-before-seen archives of Paul and Linda’s home videos and photos, as well as new interviews with Paul’s children Mary and Stella and insights from John Lennon’s son Sean, director Morgan Neville documents Paul McCartney’s extraordinary life following the breakup of the Beatles and how the love he shared with Linda Eastman McCartney became his bedrock and influenced a journey that would lead to the formation of Wings and a second decade’s musical catalog of timeless classics. […]

This film, which had extensive cooperation from McCartney and his children and many of his contemporaries, is remarkable in being able to access so much concert footage and so many home movies. But thanks to the skillful editing of Alan Lowe, it also contains remarkably beautiful cinematography including ocean scenes, pastoral Scottish farmland, and sunsets. In addition to scenes of McCartney’s bucolic pastoral farm in Scotland (including three pot plants being carted off by the authorities), there are lovely ocean shots and a scary story about how Paul once almost drowned.

I counted more than 56 songs in the credits and many, many, many sources for the extraordinary footage. It runs 115 minutes. Director Morgan Neville (Oscar-winner for 2013’s “Twenty Feet from Stardom”) spent four years directing on “Man on the Run,” sitting down 7 times with McCartney himself.  The screen is filled not with a talking head, but with live concert footage. Sometimes, the close-ups are so huge on the big screen that you feel like you are almost looking up the nostrils of one of the most famous musicians on the planet. […]