Posted June 19, 2015 by Floydian Slip
Tickets went on sale today for “Roger Waters The Wall,” a concert film of his recent world tour of Pink Floyd’s seminal 1979 album.
The film will show at 8 p.m. local time in select theaters across the United States on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
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Read more about the film: “Roger Waters The Wall” film showing this fall (April 18, 2015)
Posted April 18, 2015 by Floydian Slip
Picturehouse Entertainment and Fathom Events have acquired international and U.S. rights, respectively, to the feature-length film “Roger Waters The Wall.”
Written and directed by Roger Waters and Sean Evans, the film will show worldwide at 7:30 p.m. local time Tuesday, Sept. 29.
It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. A concert film of Waters’ tour of the classic Pink Floyd album “The Wall,” it’s also a road movie of Waters’ reckoning with the past and an anti-war film.
“We were a big family on the road, 189 of us, give or take the odd Snoozy Walrus. We were happy by and large and I am really happy to welcome everyone at Fathom and Picturehouse aboard, I know, I know, mixing metaphors,” Waters says in a somewhat rambling statement.
“Where was I? Oh yeah, with your help, this coming 29th September will be the perfect way to remember, not just our loved ones, but the other guys loved ones, fallen, living, and as yet unborn,” he adds.
More information and tickets will be available this summer at www.rogerwatersthewall.com.
Posted October 17, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Hollywood Classics will re-release the 1970 film “Zabriskie Point” in the U.K. on Oct. 24.
Pink Floyd contributed music for the film, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.
Hollywood Classics will release the film in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) format.
“We are aiming to re-release a variety of vintage films onto DCP throughout the next 12 months and while reviewing the selection of features available to us, we also realized Pink Floyd was gearing up to release their new album,” Hollywood Classics managing director John Ramchandani tells Variety.
The film will open at London’s Curzon Mayfair theater Oct. 24, and then at Picturehouse Cinemas theaters across the U.K. beginning Nov. 2.
Hollywood Classics holds the theatrical distribution rights for all pre-1986 MGM films in markets outside North America.
Posted August 20, 2014 by Floydian Slip
“Roger Waters: The Wall,” a concert documentary focused on the Pink Floyd co-founder’s recent world tour, will premiere next month at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
“This immersive experience of Waters’s ‘The Wall Live’ tour, shot in three cities across two continents, is a rib-rattling, sonically stupendous piece of filmmaking,” according to TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling.
Clocking in at 2 hours 13 minutes, the film premieres Saturday, Sept. 6, with additional shows Sept. 7 and 14.
Waters shares directing credit with Sean Evans of production company Deadskinboy, who helped stage the tour. Longtime Waters manager Mark Fenwick is the film’s executive producer.
Waters played 219 shows on his “Wall” tour between 2010 and 2013, grossing $458 million.
No news yet on plans for a commercial release.
Posted August 14, 2014 by Floydian Slip
Focus Features will release “The Theory of Everything,” a biopic about British physicist Stephen Hawking, on Nov. 7.
Pink Floyd fans will recall Hawking’s synthesized voice is heard on “Keep Talking” from the band’s “The Division Bell” (1994).
The film is based on the book “Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” by Jane Hawking, the scientist’s first wife. It focuses on his early life before and after his diagnosis of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).
It stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking, and Felicity Jones as his wife.
Posted September 13, 2013 by Floydian Slip
The 1970 Roy Battersby documentary “The Body,” best known to Pink Floyd fans for its soundtrack including work by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, will be issued on DVD next month.
Network Distributing Ltd. will release the film on DVD in its entirety for the first time. The disc will include the original theatrical trailer, a gallery of still images, and promotional material.
Waters composed and recorded the soundtrack along with Ron Geesin. The track “Give Birth to a Smile” included the rest of Pink Floyd, who appeared without credit.
The DVD will be issued as a Region 2 disc, playable in Europe, the Middle East and several other countries, but not the United States.
Network describes “The Body” as “a deeply intimate feature-length film exploring the physical experience of being human.”
Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave and Frank Finlay, with commentary by poet/playwright Adrian Mitchell, the film follows the human life-cycle from conception to death.
Battersby has worked as a director mostly in television since 1969.
The DVD will be priced at £6.98.
Posted January 28, 2012 by Floydian Slip
Roddy Bogawa‘s documentary about Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson will have its East Coast premiere next month at New York Museum of the Modern Art (MoMA).
The feature-length film, “Taken by Storm,” will be featured as part of MoMA’s two-week-long “International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media,” beginning Feb. 16.
“Taken by Storm” debuted in March 2011 at the South by Southwest (SxSW) festival.
“Hoping that this screening will give the film a big push along to its distribution life — more screenings, perhaps theatrical release, DVDs and streaming,” Bogawa says.