PINK FLOYD - THE WALL (DVD)
With Bob Geldof, Bob Hoskins
Directed by Alan Parker
This is without a doubt one of the most incredible music-to-movie translations
ever. With Roger
Waters'
screenplay woven around the classic album, The Wall, by his band
Pink
Floyd,
Alan Parker crafted it into a claustrophobic biopic of a rock star gone
over the edge. Locked in his hotel room, burnt out on drugs and too much
time on the road & on stage, reflecting on the events impacting on his
intense life and art, Pink slowly builds a wall around his consciousness,
vividly depicted in flashbacks, fantasy and surreal animated scenes. This
dark masterpiece with its incredible animation sequences integrated with
the action is as powerful today as two decades ago in 1982. The DVD contains
amazing extras like a new reflection on the film by many key participants,
a documentary on the making of the film, unreleased footage, the original
film trailer, hidden buttons and more. Oh, yeah, and not to forget the
running commentary option by Roger
Waters
and animation director Gerald
Scarfe!
The original wide screen format and re-mastered audio tracks is enough
to make this an essential cinematic as well as musical experience to nestle
amoung your growing DVD collection.
6 / A
- PB
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