It’s the morning after last night’s one-time screening of “Roger Waters The Wall” in select theaters.
Waters’ concert film of his recent world tour incorporates behind-the-scenes footage and additional scenes of Waters trekking across the European countryside in a style that straddles narrative and documentary styles.
What did you think? Leave your comments here …
Thought it was very good. Pros: of course the music. Liam Neeson. Visually awesome. Short film after with Nick Mason & Waters was the best! Cons: I have to question Waters crying while reading over his father’s death notification. He directed, wrote this movie so I’m suspect about his sincerity when he has to sell a movie. Waters has no regrets? (yeah right). Waters & Gilmour….frosty as ever.
I’m in Canada. The movie theater has it tonight and tomorrow night so I haven’t seen it yet 😛
I’m in Canada too and saw it last night. Thought it was one night only?
Anyways, I loved it!! I felt so much emotion at times while watching it. My only complaint was the sound quality wasn’t great in my theater. Can’t wait for the blu-ray release to watch it at home 🙂
@Johann: It seems a CD/DVD/Blu-ray release is still up in the air. Or have you heard something concrete?
The movie is great! Amazing! And gave me a new information about Water’s life… his grandfather died at war as his father. So sad Roger. The conversation between Mason and Waters is so funny. But its a pitty my question was not select.
Yeah, I thought the Q&A at the end — not officially a part of the movie, as I understand it — was really telling. I’d seen Nick’s sense of humor in the past, but rarely Roger’s. Seeing the two of them riff off one another it was obvious they have a deep connection.
(Heads-up: This just in: “Roger Waters The Wall” is coming to DVD/Blu-ray Nov. 16. Details soon …)
The movie was brilliant. Really disappointed that my cinema didn’t show “The Simple Facts”. Hopefully it will be included in the Blu-Ray release.
The Wall album rewrote what a concept album could be. The Wall concert raised the standard for concerts to come. The Wall movie redefined what a rock movie looked like. Roger Waters The Wall concert film just changed concert films for the future.
Roger Water’s concert film/ autobiographical cathartic, documentary of his “The Wall Live Concert” ; is a brilliant glimpse into his creative and haunted mind and how he lives the life he writes about in his works. This film is a very honest self-assessment of Roger Water’s psyche and musical visionary process. It shows a contiguous painful memories of past and present dark histories. These are encompassed in his loss of both a father in WW2 and a grandfather in WW1; leading to his overwhelming political despondency in emotions regarding “the bricks” of deaths; in modern warfare and contemporary murders; in the name of global tribal intolerance.The film is both a poignant anti materialist and anti imperialist piece of musical and performance/visual animation art. Utilizing multi-media in the concert footage and combining it with highly visceral travels to key locations, from Roger’s family history offers a rarely seen glimpse into the ripple effect that losing love ones to war; or atrocities of human behavior, echo through an artist’s life and shape both the form of Roger Waters’ art content and his relationships with people in general. It is a powerful film with strong analysis ;facing man’s inhumanity to man and the pain that this horror transfers throughout human existence.