Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)
by Alan Parker
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Actor: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, Eleanor David, James Laurenson, Kevin McKeonDirector: Alan Parker
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony
DVD Reviews of Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)
DVD Review: Introspection
Summary: 5 Stars
Every time I watch this movie, it feels like it encompasses a lifetime. You can't even review this movie, but because it's not. It's art. One of the best dvd's ever printed to, I will say. This film drove me to draw. I drew the dove transformation scene, i'm a musician, not a painter. Scarfe's animations are truly unparallelled, never to be reproduced again!
The film in my opinion, is at the absolute limits of western society's threshold for acceptance. This is an adult movie, no an adult experience meant to be viewed by EVERY open-minded individual on Earth. I had watched this film many years ago before I had ever experimented with anything. The movie has more depth to it every time I watch it is very profound. As far as intense movies go, this is on the far, far end of the spectrum. You must be prepared for this experience!
Also the Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix is out of this world, just perfect.
DVD Review: my gut feeling told me
Summary: 4 Stars
i know going with amazon was the best option. i recieved my order fast and was very pleased with the product.even when i buy through amazon from other sellers my gut feeling tells me that since its through amazon, it's ok.DVD Review: Great!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I had been looking for this movie for some time. I was really glad to find it for such a good price.DVD Review: One Crazy Diamond
Summary: 3 Stars
The wall is a universal metaphor with obvious symbolic meanings (oppression, division, isolation, alienation, psychotic withdrawl). Whats interesting to me is that other musicians in the seventies and early eighties were also dealing with these same themes (ie The Who, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Joy Division...). Rock stardom might not be a universal condition but alienation certainly is and this explains why youth culture identifies with this music. Youth culture is all about the alienated identifying and communing with other alienated people.
Whats missing from the film version of The Wall is any sense of community or fraternity (or individuality) among fans. Instead, the fans are presented as an undifferentiated mob who feed off of rock stars or use them for a temporary thrill. This is not a very flattering or very accurate portrayal of youth culture. But, to be fair, the film does not really present itself as an objective account of anything. Rather its an account of the world as seen through the subjective lens of a burned out & sedated rock star who sees all humans as a potential threat to his comfortably numb state. The film is less about alienation than it is about psychotic paranoia. Geldoff does a good job of inhabiting this character "Pink" but he has nothing to do but sit still and stare and occasionaly react to perceived threats (which are not real, but projections from his own unstable mind). By presenting everything as an emanation from Pink's crazed mind, the film diqualifies itself as a critique of society. Instead, it simply becomes a critique of one person's psychotically transposed experience of that world.
The film is still interesting, in parts, but with its exclusive focus on one delusional character it does not deliver the universalizing message that the album so successfully did.
DVD Review: Great movie - who's the nimrod who authored the disc?
Summary: 3 Stars
Everyone's familiar with this movie and already knows whether they like it or not. I like the movie and would give this DVD 5 stars if it was the highest possible quality you could get on DVD and if the menu authoring wasn't terrible.
Picture quality definitely suffers from having to have enough space on the single disc for the extra features and commentary. For a "Deluxe" edition they should have put the bonus content on a second disc so the video quality could be the highest possible for the movie itself.
Second, the menus are stupid. You have to sit through video clips when transitioning between sections - more wasted space and time. What's worst though is NONE OF THE SCENES HAVE TITLES, just numbers. There is no chapter index card or anything that comes with the DVD, so unless you have memorized the chapters by number there is no way to skip to a particular scene or song without trial and error. If this is some kind of way of artistically alienating the viewer in a way consistent with the themes of the film it's a stupid idea. Really stupid.
Looking forward to the Blu-Ray version which must have better video quality and hopefully they title the chapters in that edition as well.
Description of Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)
Track List:1.Original film presented in high-definition widescreen and mixed in 5.1 surround sound
2."The Other Side Of The Wall" - a 25 minute documentary about the making of the film
3."Retrospective" - an exclusive 45 minute retrospective documentary of interviews with Roger Waters, Alan Parker, Gerald Scarfe, Peter Biziou, Alan Marshall and James Guthrie 4.Original film trailer and production stills
In celebration of the quarter-century anniversary, Columbia Records is releasing a special limited edition DVD of this landmark film. Packaged in a deluxe DVD digi-pak designed to look like The Wall with debossed brick work and a clear O-card, this stunning release features a photo montage of film shots and a fold-out reproduction of the original film promotional poster. All the artwork and design for this lavish packaging has been coordinated by original Pink Floyd designers Peter Curzon and Storm Thorgerson.
By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd: The Wall is a glorious failure. Glorious because its imagery is hypnotically striking, frequently resonant, and superbly photographed by the gifted cinematographer Peter Biziou. And a failure because the entire exercise is hopelessly dour, loyal to the bleak themes and psychological torment of Roger Waters's great musical opus, and yet utterly devoid of the humor that Waters certainly found in his own material. Any attempt to visualize The Wall would be fraught with artistic danger, and Parker succumbs to his own self-importance, creating a film that's as fascinating as it is flawed.
The film is, for better and worse, the fruit of three artists in conflict--Parker indulging himself, and Waters in league with designer Gerald Scarfe, whose brilliant animated sequences suggest that he should have directed and animated this film in its entirety. Fortunately, this clash of talent and ego does not prevent The Wall from being a mesmerizing film. Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof (in his screen debut) is a fine choice to play Waters's alter ego--an alienated, "comfortably numb" rock star whose psychosis manifests itself as an emotional (and symbolically physical) wall between himself and the cold, cruel world. Weaving Waters's autobiographical details into his own jumbled vision, Parker ultimately fails to combine a narrative thread with experimental structure. It's a rich, bizarre, and often astonishing film that will continue to draw a following, but the real source of genius remains the music of Roger Waters. --Jeff Shannon
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