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Scott Walker - 30th Century Man
2006
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man explores Scott Walker's music and career, from his early days as a jobbing bass player on the Sunset Strip, to mega-stardom in Britain's swinging 60's pop scene, and finally to his transformation into a composer of true genius; an uncompromising and serious musician working at the peak of his powers. Read more
| Starring | Scott Walker, Damon Albarn, Dot Allison, Marc Almond |
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| Director | Stephen Kijak |
| Genres | Documentary, Music/Musical |
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Scott Walker - 30th Century Man
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man explores Scott Walker's music and career, from his early days as a jobbing bass player on the Sunset Strip, to mega-stardom in Britain's swinging 60's pop scene, and finally to his transformation into a composer of true genius; an uncompromising and serious musician working at the peak of his powers.
| Starring | Scott Walker, Damon Albarn, Dot Allison, Marc Almond, David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Rob Ellis |
|---|---|
| Director | Stephen Kijak |
| Studio | VERVE PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Documentary, Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 10 Sep 2007 Production year: 2006 |
| Format | DVD |
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This definitive portrait of rocks most fascinating and elusive outsider has pretty much everything you could... read more on Time Out
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33 out of 55 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Good revealing docu-film of the golden voiced artist.
Now I will start by saying one of my all time favourite tracks is 'No Regrets', and 'Sun Ain't Gonna Shine' and 'Make it Easy on Yourself' aren't too shabby either., and the documentary, though slightly overlong, works well.
That said, and the tracks above being really Walker Brothers collaboration, solo I am not sure of the value to the normal man in the street of Walkers catalogue of work.
I know this might cause some consternation, but do you know when you have the feeling the artist has dissapeared into his own self indulgent realm, that the output is purely for the performer rather than his audience and the 'art' has taken over the 'artist'... well this appears to be a point in question.
Several music notaries (Malc Almond, Bowie, Eno etc), remark on the influential but slow (10 years on 1 album) output, and not to demean the mans work, the oddity of the output since the late 70's leaves you with the strong feeling of a person who has dissapeared up his own you know what !!!
Personally, although he says clearly in the film he is not interested in 'commercial' music, I am not a high brow 'muso' but do love music immensely, therefore I feel that we have missed a great output of music that has been soaked up in chordless arty 'noise', and as such I feel cheated of a great talent and his music.
Pity... as the voice is pure gold and the early work is still major hall of fame stuff . Sorry fans, hope you get what I am saying - this is still definately worth a watch ! -
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33 out of 55 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Good revealing docu-film of the golden voiced artist.
Now I will start by saying one of my all time favourite tracks is 'No Regrets', and 'Sun Ain't Gonna Shine' and 'Make it Easy on Yourself' aren't too shabby either., and the documentary, though slightly overlong, works well.
That said, and the tracks above being really Walker Brothers collaboration, solo I am not sure of the value to the normal man in the street of Walkers catalogue of work.
I know this might cause some consternation, but do you know when you have the feeling the artist has dissapeared into his own self indulgent realm, that the output is purely for the performer rather than his audience and the 'art' has taken over the 'artist'... well this appears to be a point in question.
Several music notaries (Malc Almond, Bowie, Eno etc), remark on the influential but slow (10 years on 1 album) output, and not to demean the mans work, the oddity of the output since the late 70's leaves you with the strong feeling of a person who has dissapeared up his own you know what !!!
Personally, although he says clearly in the film he is not interested in 'commercial' music, I am not a high brow 'muso' but do love music immensely, therefore I feel that we have missed a great output of music that has been soaked up in chordless arty 'noise', and as such I feel cheated of a great talent and his music.
Pity... as the voice is pure gold and the early work is still major hall of fame stuff . Sorry fans, hope you get what I am saying - this is still definately worth a watch ! -
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man explores Scott Walker's music and career, from his early days as a jobbing bass player on the Sunset Strip, to mega-stardom in Britain's swinging 60's pop scene, and ... -