Pink Floyd - The Wall 25th Anniversary (Deluxe Edition)

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Studio: Sony MusicRelease Date: 01/28/2005

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By any rational measure, Alan Parker's cinematic interpretation of Pink Floyd: The Wallis 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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Customer Reviews

Rating: - Not another brick in the wall
Great Film! Cutting Edge! Twenty five years later its still a MUST SEE. I saw this movie in the orginal theatrical release with a packed house and everyone was Blown Away! Do yourself a favor if you have not seen it.
Rating: - Introspection
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 ... Read More
Rating: - my gut feeling told me
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.
Rating: - Great!!
I had been looking for this movie for some time. I was really glad to find it for such a good price.
Rating: - Great movie - who's the nimrod who authored the disc?
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 ... Read More