Universal: Roger Waters — The Wall, Universal Pictures (2 Disc Special Edition Blu-ray, 2015)

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Product Details

• UPC: 5053083061630
• Product Type: 2 Disc Special Edition Blu-ray
• Brand / Label: Universal Pictures / Rue 21 Productions
• Artist / Director: Roger Waters & Sean Evans
• Film copyright: © 2014 Rue 21 Productions, Ltd.
• Release Year: 2015
• Genre: Rock Concert Film / Music Documentary
• Style: Progressive Rock, Pink Floyd
• Video: 1080p HD, 2.40:1 Letterbox
• Audio: English Dolby Atmos, Stereo 2.0 (main); Dolby Digital 2.0 (bonus)
• Subtitles: 25 languages including English, German, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian and more
• Film Runtime: approx. 132 minutes + approx. 80 minutes bonus
• FSK: ab 6
• Distributed by: Universal Pictures Germany GmbH

Product Features

• Format: 2 Blu-ray discs, special edition slipcase with die-cut cover
• Disc 1: Main film, 1080p HD, Dolby Atmos / Stereo 2.0
• Disc 2: Bonus material, 1080p HD / 480p SD
• Special Edition extras: booklet, art-cards, poster
• Bonus content: "Comfortably Numb" live at O2 Arena (feat. David Gilmour); "Outside the Wall" live at O2 Arena (feat. David Gilmour & Nick Mason); road footage with Roger Waters; Facebook films; visit with Frank Thompson; timeline featurettes (Athens & Buenos Aires)
• Subtitles: 25 languages
• Condition: Very Good — discs and packaging in excellent used condition
• Manufactured: Germany

Overview

Roger Waters The Wall is not a concert film in any conventional sense. It is part concert document, part road movie, part personal memoir — a film Roger Waters co-directed with Sean Evans, built around the 2010–2013 global tour in which Waters performed The Wall in its entirety to audiences of millions. The original Pink Floyd album, released in 1979, was written almost entirely by Waters as a meditation on isolation, grief, and the psychological barriers people build around themselves; the film uses the tour as a frame for returning to those themes in the context of his own life.

The concert footage — enormous in scale, with the famous wall construction and demolition taking place across each performance — is intercut with Waters traveling to war cemeteries in France and Italy where his father and grandfather are buried. Both were killed in conflicts they never chose: his father at Anzio in 1944, when Roger was five months old. The film does not separate the spectacle from its source. The songs gain weight when you see where they came from.

This 2 Disc Special Edition is the definitive home release. Disc 1 carries the main film in 1080p with Dolby Atmos audio. Disc 2 contains approximately 80 minutes of bonus material, including two O2 Arena performances of particular interest to Pink Floyd collectors: "Comfortably Numb" with David Gilmour, and "Outside the Wall" with both Gilmour and Nick Mason — the closest thing to a Pink Floyd reunion performance captured on official release. The Special Edition physical package includes a booklet, art-cards, and a poster.

Interesting Facts

• The Wall tour (2010–2013) is one of the highest-grossing concert tours in history, earning over $458 million and playing to more than four million people across 219 shows.
• Roger Waters's father, Eric Fletcher Waters, was killed at the Battle of Anzio on February 18, 1944 — Roger was born on September 6, 1943, meaning his father never saw him grow up. The album The Wall and this film are in large part an extended working-through of that loss.
• "Comfortably Numb," performed here with David Gilmour, was one of the last songs the two wrote together for Pink Floyd; their creative relationship had largely broken down by the time of The Wall sessions in 1979.
• The film's co-director Sean Evans had previously directed segments of the live The Wall show itself, giving him an unusual dual role as both creator and documentarian of the same event.
• The crossed hammers symbol, which features prominently in the album's imagery and on this set's cover, was designed by Gerald Scarfe, who created all the original animation for the 1982 Pink Floyd The Wall film directed by Alan Parker.
• Nick Mason, who appears in the O2 bonus footage, was the only member of Pink Floyd to have remained on consistently good terms with Waters throughout the band's long dissolution period.

Track Listing

The film presents The Wall performed in full, in sequence, corresponding to the original Pink Floyd double album (1979). No separate track-by-track listing is printed on the packaging.

Key songs performed include: In the Flesh? / The Thin Ice / Another Brick in the Wall (Parts 1, 2 & 3) / The Happiest Days of Our Lives / Mother / Goodbye Blue Sky / Empty Spaces / Young Lust / One of My Turns / Don't Leave Me Now / Comfortably Numb / Hey You / Is There Anybody Out There? / Nobody Home / Vera / Bring the Boys Back Home / Run Like Hell / Waiting for the Worms / Stop / The Trial / Outside the Wall

Full runtime: approx. 132 minutes (film) + approx. 80 minutes (bonus disc).

Publishers

A Rue 21 Productions presentation. Film © 2014 Rue 21 Productions, Ltd. Packaging © 2015 Universal Studios. Produced by Roger Waters & Clare Spencer. Directed by Sean Evans & Roger Waters. Distributed by Universal Pictures Germany GmbH, Christoph-Probst-Weg 26, 20251 Hamburg; Universal Pictures Switzerland GmbH, Zurich.

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