Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut)

Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut)
by Adrian Maben

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Actor: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Roger Waters
Director: Adrian Maben
Brand: PINK FLOYD
Cinematographer: G?bor Pog?ny
Cinematographer: Willy Kurant
Editor: Jos? Pinheiro
Editor: Nino DiFonzo
Producer: Alex Darbyshire
Producer: Mark Fenwick
Producer: Mich?le Arnaud
Producer: Nick Ryle
Producer: Reiner Moritz
Producer: Stephen O'Rourke
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Director's Cut, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, NTSC
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-21
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Hip-O Records

DVD Reviews of Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut)

DVD Review: S I R I T U A L !
Summary: 5 Stars

ECHOS Part I & II on this may be the single best piece of music ever created anywhere in the history of man. If you are musically mature enough to handle this, then you should really listen to this. I think this was as good as it got for Pink Floyd. This was it. The epicenter of goodness.

I dont care if the directors cut isn't that good. It doesnt matter. This director still came up with one of the best ideas ever, in the original. As far as I am concerned, he deserves to be allowed to come up with some mediocre filler. All the orig. video was lost, anyhow, unfortunately.

DVD Review: pink floyd;live @ ponpeii circa 73
Summary: 5 Stars

WELL FLOYD FANS ,THIS VIDEO I SAW WITH FRINDS @ FRI NITE MIDNITE SCREENING IN LATE 70s:::I S BETTER ON DVD AND BETTER THAN I REMEMBER ,A MUST HAVE 4 YOUR COLLECTION.....STEVEN SOUTH JERSEY [LUST CALL ME BIG STEVE]

DVD Review: What a disappointment!
Summary: 1 Stars

Don't get me wrong. The original release of Pink Floyd At Pompeii is amazing. Legendary. What's been done in the name of a "Director's Cut" is nothing short of blasphemy. Lousy, pointless 80's style graphics and some innocuous interview material that should have been added as an extra - not part of the movie. (In the original release there were some behind-the-scenes footage of the band recording Dark Side Of The Moon --- that material worked well in the context of the film.) Oh and don't even get me started about the cropping of the material from 1.33:1 to 16:9. Just Plain Awful!

If the original cut had been released I would have given it FIVE stars - even with 2.0 sound. To make matters worse, the description makes it sound as though the original release is included as an extra but it's not the original release - just the original 'concert' footage. If you're a major fan of the movie (like me) you'd be happier finding a VHS version of the movie.

DVD Review: floyd fans light up!
Summary: 5 Stars

The first time I saw this I was excited and found when viewing this film that not only do you get to see pink floyd displaying how extremely talented and creative they are, but get to see them as individuals struggling with the world around them, their relationships with each other and themselves. very cool rare footage of pink floyd during the recording of dark side the moon! They play live and oh man is it swweet!

DVD Review: Same good show, with a little bit more
Summary: 5 Stars

Since I lost my VHS version of this film, I had missed the occasional nostalgic viewing. This DVD version brings it all back. It's as good as ever, and includes some new enhancement to the setting at Pompeii. Worth replacing your old version.

Description of Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut)

Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 10/03/2006

Conceived by the French director Adrian Maben as "an anti-Woodstock film," Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was shot in October 1971 in a vacant, 2,000-year-old amphitheater--a venue chosen to accentuate the grandeur and spaciousness of the band's Meddle-era music. This disc contains a new, 90-minute director's cut as well as the original 60-minute concert film, whose production and effects feel inescapably dated. Maben's cut goes to great lengths to lend the film a more contemporary feel, but it's the earlier version that makes this disc such a gem, being more focused on the music and more wholistic in vision. The anamorphic, 16:9 director's cut interweaves the Pompeii performances with fascinating but distracting interviews and music snippets filmed later (mostly during the recording of Dark Side of the Moon). The movie was originally prepared in a 4:3 aspect ratio, however, and the widescreen version crops perfectly framed images like the nine-square mosaic of drummer Nick Mason in "One of These Days." The original offers plenty of closeups of fingers on frets and keys, with shots that are often luxuriously long in duration. And the picture quality from Pompeii is revelatory: outstandingly sharp and clear, rich in subtle grades of light and color.

Generous extras include everything from original posters, reviews, bootleg album covers, and song lyrics to a 24-minute interview with Maben. But for all the director's talk of the glorious acoustics in Pompeii's amphitheater, there's little natural ambience to be heard. The Dolby Digital 2.0 sound is clear, dry, and two-dimensional, though notably better than any previous video release. --Michael Mikesell

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