Roger Waters The Wall film – a film about his 2010-2013 Live tour of The Wall – had it’s premiere at the Toronto FIlm Festival where Roger Waters treated the media to a questions and answers session. It is also the place that the Wall Live Tour started back in September 2010, a fitting location indeed!
You can watch the Q&A session below and also read the review from T-Mak World who attended and filmed the event. Roger said in the interview that he doesn’t know when the film will be released as that is in the hands of the distributors when they are selected – part of the reason for the film being at the film festival NPF presumes. Let’s hope it is this year! Enjoy and share on your Facebook!
Roger Waters The Wall – A Film by Roger Waters and Sean Evans will be premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival commencing 6th September 2014.
The much anticipated release is 133 minutes long and will receive 5 screenings at the festival, with two reserved for industry professionals only.
There were several of Roger Waters The Wall Live shows recorded, with other re-enactments from Roger’s family life and other events recorded by film crews for the movie. As further information becomes available about the film, including when it goes to DVD/Blu-ray, it shall be shared on this website.
This film release will likely be very popular indeed with people all over the world discussing the release for some time since the first shows were recorded years ago on The Wall Tour between September 2010 and September 2013.
Promotional Words About The Film
Roger Waters The Wall Live Film
Fans of Roger Waters and Pink Floyd’s monumental The Wall, get ready. 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. With its 500-foot set, which is gradually built throughout the show into the famed wall, the ambitious and immensely successful concert production features one of the most iconic pieces of extended imagination that rock ‘n’ roll ever produced, and will remind many of the sheer ambition and scope of music in the 1970s, the era in which it was first created.
Waters, from whose head the original Wall emerged, has, along with co-director Sean Evans, made a film that captures his original vision completely. Sumptuously shot so as not to miss anything the show had to offer, Roger Waters The Wall is also beautifully mixed so that these live renditions of the album’s many anthems sound crystal-clear and vibrantly present.
But the film, like the piece of music on which it is based, is also drenched in Waters’s politics and memories. Scarred by the fact that his father was killed in action in Italy in 1944, when Roger was not yet six months old, his work is a plea for peace and understanding — as “walls” create fear, misunderstanding, and often lead to war and death. Roger Waters The Wall includes a highly personal and moving journey through France and Italy as Waters visits the WWI cemetery in which his grandfather, killed in 1916, is buried, and the monument near the Anzio beaches on which his father’s name is inscribed. On the hundredth anniversary of the First World War’s outbreak, this film shows that art so often springs from memory — and we can never forget.
