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

David Gilmour (Actor), Roger Waters (Actor), Adrian Maben (Director) | Rated: G (General Audience) | Format: DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (98 customer reviews)

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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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for the 1972 film version on DVD, Jun 21 2004
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Terrence J Reardon "Classic rock guru" (Lake Worth, Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) (DVD)
Pink Floyd released their concert film Live at Pompeii in late 1972 in the UK. The original film was filmed at the Pompeii Ampitheatre in Pompeii, Italy in October of 1971 with some footage filmed in early 1972 at a Paris film studio. That original version was 61 minutes long, and consisted only of performance footage from the Pompeii amphitheatre and a Paris studio, plus some extra footage of Pompeii. This was shot in full-screen 4:3 and is presented as such on the DVD. The band gave superb readings of Echoes(pt.1), Careful With That Axe Eugene, A Saucerful of Secrets, One of These Days, Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun, Mademoiselle Nobs and Echoes(pt.2). This right here makes the purchase of the DVD justifiable. In early 1973, director Adrian Maben went to Abbey Road Studios while the band was finishing their classic contribution to rock history, the 34 million selling and counting worldwide The Dark Side of the Moon shot some documentary footage of the band recording(or pretending to record according to guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour because the band were mixing by the time these sequences were filmed) and talking. The new footage was spliced in between some of the original performances for the film and the result was released in August, 1974 here in the US and was now 80 minutes long. Unfortunately, this edit is not on DVD. Now, this new version uses the Abbey Road footage, plus some unearthed black and white footage of the band in a studio in Paris in March of 1972. Also, Maben filmed new shots of Pompeii, a whole bunch of archival footage of space exploration and new titles that look made for a straight-to-video release instead of the Godard-esque ones we had with the original. This is about 91 minutes long, and has been inexplicably matted to a 16:9 format. Gilmour was not responsible for this DVD and he is not happy with the Director's Cut. Ironically, Roger Waters is and his manager Mark Fenwick was one of the DVD's executive producers and approved of this director's cut. I say buy the DVD for the original film.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Director cut too much, Jan 27 2004
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This review is from: Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) (DVD)
The music is great - I love the set list and their renditions. However, this director's cut is not your typical "director's cut." Typically a director's cut implies that there is more film footage, and that is true here with the extended interviews. However, a lot of the original footage is deleted and replaced by cheesy (to me) computer animation. And although the film as originally released is available on the DVD as an option, you can't watch it with the added interviews. So that's why I've given it 3 stars - the movie's fluidity is lost with all these abrasive cuts to modern computer animation. The coolest part of this movie, the slow pan toward the band in the amphitheater at the beginning, is completely lost by these edits.
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3.0 out of 5 stars THE EXTRAS ARE BETTER..., Oct 2 2011
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B. C. Whitcomb "WTF?!" (Mad Cow, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) (DVD)
The 'Director's Cut' leaves a lot to be desired. At least there are the amusing extras, like the interview where Pink Floyd drives the director around the bend. The director actually thought that bribing Pink Floyd with lunch was going to get them to talk about their inner-most secrets. No. Instead, they ate lunch and made fun of the director by telling him all these lies. Apart from that, the CGI footage of the destruction of Pompeii, and the old NASA film stock, doesn't add much more to this great movie. And it is a great movie, provided the only footage shown is of Pink Floyd performing to an empty Roman theatre. The inclusion of the original 1972 theatrical release, without all that interview footage, is a worthy reason to get this release. But if you want to see Nick Mason freak over there being no "pies without the crust", it's in there as well.
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