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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PINK FLOYD
EAN: 0602498609460
Label: Hip-O Records
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hip-O Records
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 1953
Studio: Hip-O Records
Theatrical Release Date: October 21, 2003
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music)Release Date: 10/03/2006
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Conceived by the French director Adrian Maben as 'an anti-Woodstockfilm,' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was shot in October 1971 in avacant, 2,000-year-old amphitheater--a venue chosen to accentuate thegrandeur and spaciousness of the band's Meddle-eramusic. This disc contains a new, 90-minute director's cut as well as theoriginal 60-minute concert film, whose production and effects feelinescapably dated. Maben's cut goes to great lengths to lend the film amore contemporary feel, but it's the earlier version that makes thisdisc such a gem, being more focused on the music and more wholistic invision. The anamorphic, 16:9 director's cut interweaves the Pompeiiperformances with fascinating but distracting interviews and musicsnippets filmed later (mostly during the recording of Dark Side ofthe Moon). The movie was originally prepared in a 4:3aspect ratio, however, and the widescreen version crops perfectly framedimages like the nine-square mosaic of drummer Nick Mason in 'One ofThese Days.' The original offers plenty of closeups of fingers on fretsand keys, with shots that are often luxuriously long in duration. Andthe picture quality from Pompeii is revelatory: outstandingly sharp andclear, 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 withMaben. But for all the director's talk of the glorious acoustics inPompeii's amphitheater, there's little natural ambience to be heard. TheDolby Digital 2.0 sound is clear, dry, and two-dimensional, though notablybetter than any previous video release. --Michael Mikesell
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Rating:  - floyd fans light up!
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 recordingof dark side the moon! They play live and oh man is it swweet!
Rating: - Same good show, with a little bit more
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.
Rating: - See Gilmour Play
Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii - Great, great, great, great!!!! This DVD contains the "Director's Cut" as well as the original concert film. Basically the Director's cut features lots of extra visuals, including computer graphic recreations of Pompeii, the exploding Vesuvius, and other things like NASA shots of rockets going up into space, space walks, images of suns and stars and moons and planets, all the usual things you'd expect of someone depicting a "space rock" band. It also has some extra bits ... Read More
Rating: - Can Pink Floyd be any less than fantastic?
Compared to the original version of "Live at Pompeii" this one has more material in it, without anything dropped. There are some more interviews, where Roger makes fun of the interviewer, that's so much fun! And some Odyssey like video parts have been added to the songs that looks pretty cool.
Rating:  - Too much tampering with a good thing
"Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii - The Director's Cut" could have been a better film than it is, even with the extra and new footage, if Adrien Maben hadn't tried to run the gamut here. It's total overkill. The audio is now more clear sounding, and the picture is now sharper than it was, and some alternate footage from the time is included to enhance the experience, but there is some serious inconsistency in the bigger picture.
In its original form, the viewer gets an opening sequence made ... Read More
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