Pink Floyd - Live at Pompell - The Director's Cut | DVD |

Conceived by the French director Adrian Maben as "an anti-Woodstock film," Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was shot in October 1971 in a vacant, 2,000-year-old amphitheater--a venue chosen to accentuate the grandeur and spaciousness of the band's Meddle-era music. This disc contains a new, 90-minute director's cut as well as the original 60-minute concert film, whose production and effects feel inescapably dated. Maben's cut goes to great lengths to lend the film a more contemporary feel, but it's the earlier version that makes this disc such a gem, being more focused on the music and more wholistic in vision. The anamorphic, 16:9 director's cut interweaves the Pompeii performances with fascinating but distracting interviews. The widescreen version crops perfectly framed images. The original offers plenty of closeups of fingers on frets and keys, with shots that are often luxuriously long in duration. And the picture quality from Pompeii is revelatory: outstandingly sharp and clear.

Generous extras include everything from original posters, reviews, bootleg album covers, and song lyrics to a 24-minute interview with Maben. But for all the director's talk of the glorious acoustics in Pompeii's amphitheater, there's little natural ambience to be heard.

Tracking List
1. Echoes, Part 1 / On the Run (Studio Footage) (Uncredited) (from Meddle/The Dark Side of the Moon, 1971/1973)
2. Careful with That Axe, Eugene (B-side of "Point Me at the Sky" single, 1968)
3. A Saucerful of Secrets (from A Saucerful of Secrets, 1968)
4. Us and Them (Studio Footage) (from The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973)
5. One of These Days I'm Going to Cut You into Little Pieces (from Meddle, 1971; also known as "One of These Days")
6. Mademoiselle Nobs
7. Brain Damage (Studio Footage) (from The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973)
8. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (from A Saucerful of Secrets, 1968)
9. Echoes, Part 2 (from Meddle, 1971)

Subtitles: Portuguese, Spanish, English, Korean, French, Cantonese and Mandarin