Pink Floyd - The Wall (1. I recently rented and re- watched Pink Floyd The Wall for the 2. I had forgotten, over the years, why this is my favorite movie. Surprisingly, the reason it is so good has little to do with a rock star having a mental breakdown. Pink being a rock star is almost incidental to the real message of the film. It seems as if director Parker took the initial idea of Pink Floyd's album and ran away with it. The film serves less as a study of one celebrity individual, instead serving as a cinematic indictment of all of our worst aspects as human beings: cruelty, brutality, insanity, herd mentality, fascism- -all the most negative traits of twentieth century man are splashed upon the movie screen, as if the Director was asking the audience . Funny then, that it should be driven by the music of a major rock and roll band. Live At Pompeii (The Director's Cut) is a music dvd/video recording by PINK FLOYD (Psychedelic/Space Rock/Progressive Rock) released in 2003 on dvd, blu-ray disc and. Now confirmed: on November 11th 2016, Pink Floyd will release 'The Early Years 1965-1972', a mouthwatering, comprehensive 27-disc boxset that sees Pink Floyd delve. But, all in all, that is besides the point. The film of the Wall begins and ends with scenes of oppression by authoritarian figures (police men, skinheads, teachers, etc.)It is almost as if the entire sub textual content of the film is drawing a parallel between the internal alienation of a single individual and the social and global alienation that fostered the cruelties of World War 2, the holocaust, ad infinitum. Pinks degeneration is the degeneration of Everyman, confronted by a world that is (still) spinning increasingly out of control, away from the light, further behind the wall of its own nihilistic will toward self- obliteration. The violence of the imagery, the final . These are the two parts of ''Echoes'',at the Pompeii, in one video. 24'06'' Enjoy :-) 'Echoes' Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert documentary film featuring the English psychedelic rock group Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in. On November 11, Pink Floyd will release a deluxe new 27-disc box set, The Early Years: 1965-1972. The box set—which will be released by Pink Floyd Records via Sony. But it is the final lyric (sung by a repulsive, animated ? Why do nations and civilized cultures slide easily into fascistic thinking? How many war orphans are we still, to this day, creating? I am not, now, a fan of Pink Floyd's music, although all of the music in this film is beyond excellent. Oddly enough, I am the farthest thing from the dope- smoking . I am an Industrial musician and a writer. My favorite music, at this point, is anything by NON, Throbbing Gristle, etc. This film has, over the years though, shaped my own artistic outlook in ways I am probably not even aware of. One does not need to smoke dope, or even be a Pink Floyd fan, to be affected quite deeply by this film. Roger Ebert once said that Star Wars was, to him at least . Well, Pink Floyd The Wall, to myself, is a perfect film, whether you are a pothead or no. I have given this film ten stars, but it is a little beyond that. If it was simply a rock movie, it could be rated in a conventional manner. But Allan Parker has done something here that is beyond even the concept of the bestselling album that this movie is based upon. Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 film featuring Pink Floyd performing six songs in the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy. David Gilmour Returns to Pompeii With Refigured Pink Floyd Classics. Singer digs deep for first-ever rock concert before an audience at historic venue. Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of. Tourism and historical research aside, most ruins aren’t particularly useful, least of all for their original purposes. Yet Pink Floyd fans know of one. Complete your Pink Floyd record collection. Discover Pink Floyd's full discography. Shop new and used Vinyl and CDs. He has crafted a surreal essay on the madness and self- destruction that lurks within the human spirit. And he has created one of the most sobering, angry, and dizzying satirical pieces ever committed to celluloid. In short, this film is a work of sheer, jaundiced brilliance.
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