Remember A Day
| Data: 1969 Miejsce: Jakość video: 5 |
The creators of this film,
producer and lead actor Darryl Read, and writer Bernard White, famed Syd
Berrett afficionado, have managed to involve a number of people who knew
Barrett and were key members of the sixties "scene" - Peter Jenner, Jenny
Fabian, Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon (who shot the footage that bacame "Syd's First
Trip"), and Richard Wright, amongs others. Wright's main contribution was to
give the rights to "Remember A Day", for Darryl and Bernard to use on the
soundtrack - and also provided a very rare instrumental version which
appears over the end titles! Darryl, pictured below, has a long, diverse career, with extensive work on stage, screen and television. A member of the firt punk band (Crushed Butler in 1969!), he has been working recently with Ray Manzarek of The Doors. He has a striking resemblance to Marc Bolan - whom he has performed as in a tribute, fittingly. Read draws on his career for some of the ideas and situations portrayed. The disc gives you the normal chapter selection option, plus a set of interviews, and stills and posters. They do not skimp on these - you get 69 stills (colour, and black & white), and 21 posters, articles and album covers covering the career of Roger Bannerman (obviously fictitious!). Some of the stills are very similar (the pub ones in particular), but you cannot fault the number of these. There are around 52 minutes of interviews, conducted with Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon (10 minutes), Jenny Fabian (9 minutes), Bernard White (12 minutes) and Daryl Read (21 minutes). These are all quite interesting, even if the interviewer doesn't come out with particulary challenging or searching questions, and cover such subjects as the creation and development of the film and the story, the credentials of the people involved, and the parallels between Syd and Roger Bannerman character. These are worth watching prior to seeing the film, as they set the scene and the viewers expectations. |
Dodano 24.11.2004
