Scott Walker - 30th Century Man details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray, LOVEFiLM Instant |
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| Starring: | Scott Walker, Damon Albarn, Dot Allison, Marc Almond, David Bowie, Jarvis Cocker, Rob Ellis |
| Directors: | Stephen Kijak |
| Genres: | Documentary - Biography, Music, Music/Musical - Music - Rock/Pop |
| Studio: | FUSION MEDIA |
| Collections: | Music Documentary, Tenuous Numbers |
| Title | Runtime | Certificate | |
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Scott Walker - 30th Century Man |
1hr 35 mins | 15 |
LOVEFiLM Instant Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 35 minutes |
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| Rental release: | To be confirmed |
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Good revealing docu-film of the golden voiced artist.
By PaulaWestwood (397 reviews) from Ashton-Under-Lyne , 23 May 2007[Highly rated reviewer]
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 !- Was this review helpful to you?
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(24)Great Documentary
By a customer , 08 Apr 2013If you love Scott Walker then you will love this. He comes across as an intelligent and passionate men and the story from going from a pop star to an avant-garde composer must be one of the strangest. His later music is difficult. It just is that difficult, but you don't have to listen it and it's the way he wants it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Far out man
By morphix (29 reviews) , 20 Dec 2012Wow. Not at all what I expected. When you hear the name Scott Walker, you automatically hear The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore..and those melodic 60's ballads.. there was always something melancholy about those songs which produces a great power and strange beauty from sadness.. but the new work which is the subject of this documentary is very abstract and bizarre indeed. I found it interesting but difficult to listen to after a while..I actually found myself falling asleep..something he acknowledges his voice can do in this type of disjointed music. It really is far out there..unlike anything...the only thing I can compare this kind of experimental song-writing to is Brian Wilson's 'Smile'..the Beach Boys lost album.. An interesting documentary but I thought it focused too much on the music and less about the man himself and what he spent his time doing during these huge gaps between albums. He's a man of mystery and intrigue, yet little is revealed about him disappointingly.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Big Hurt
By souvenir86 (28 reviews) from South East Kent , 14 Oct 2011An excellent, insightful documentary about an underrated musical legend. I want to go and listen to all the albums again now!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Not quite my cup of tea
By a customer , 18 May 2011Alas, I never managed to get into this DVD.
I am sure if you are a Scott Walker fan it would be very interesting and informative. I have always enjoyed the Walker Brothers but found this film hard going
An interesting & reclusive man.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Reverential and Promotional
By a customer from London , 01 Aug 2010I rented this at the behest of ‘him indoors’ – a chap who can turn to jelly hearing the timbre of Scott Walkers voice. The film seemed very reverential, with too many shots of talking heads staring mystically into space whilst listening to a snippet of song, although some, such as Walker’s former manager and Cathal Coughlan were more informative than others. I guess this was mostly a promotional tool for his later work, which was fine by me, but this could have been frustrating for fans of the early Walker Brothers material. Highly recommended, especially for Scott Walker singing Jacky on Frankie Howerd’s tv show ‘Howerd’s Hour’.- Was this review helpful to you?
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