GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

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GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

by Martin Scorsese
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Duration: 208'


Thanks to rare or never-before-seen images and to the reminiscences of friends and family members, we retrace George Harrison’s life and career. From when, as a 17 year old, he joined the Beatles, to the release of his debut record, All Things Must Pass (1970), passing by way of the concert he organized in favor of Bangladesh in 1971, the founding of the production company HandMade Films to finance Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), to his premature death in 2001.

 

Like millions of people, I first came to know George through the music. The Beatles’ music, those unforgettable songs of George’s like I Me Mine or If I Needed Someone; and then there was the world after the Beatles, when George and his music seemed to open up and flower. George was making spiritually awake music and I think that was the reason that he came to occupy a very special place in our lives. So when I was offered the chance to make this picture, I jumped at it. It was a joy, and an experience I’ll always treasure.”

Biography

film director

Martin Scorsese

(New York, USA, 1942) graduated from New York University in 1964 and debuted in feature films three years later with Who’s That Knocking at My Door? He then made movies such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver (Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1976), Raging Bull, After Hours, The Color of Money, Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Departed (Oscar for Best Director), and The Irishman, making a name for himself as one of the most important directors in American film (and more), right from the first half of the 1970s. He founded The Film Foundation and thanks to its work he has helped discover, conserve, and restore many films from all over the world. He has tied his name to stars such as Robert De Niro and Leonardo Di Caprio, but has also worked with Harvey Keitel, Joe Pesci, Willem Dafoe, Jerry Lewis, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Daniel Day Lewis, Sharon Stone, Kate Blanchett…

FILMOGRAFIA

Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (Chi sta bussando alla mia porta?, 1967), Boxcar Bertha (America 1929 - Sterminateli senza pietà, 1972), Mean Streets (Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all’inferno, 1973), Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Alice non abita più qui, 1974), Italianamerican (doc, 1974), Taxi Driver (id., 1976), New York, New York (id., 1977), The Last Waltz (L’ultimo valzer, 1978), Raging Bull (Toro scatenato, 1980), The King of Comedy (Re per una notte, 1983), After Hours (Fuori orario, 1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (L’ultima tentazione di Cristo, 1988), Goodfellas (Quei bravi ragazzi, 1990), Cape Fear (Cape Fear - Il promontorio della paura, 1991), The Age of Innocence (L’età dell’innocenza, 1993), Casino (Casinò, 1995), Kundun (id.,1997), Bringing Out the Dead (Al di là della vita, 2000), Gangs of New York (id., 2002), The Aviator (id., 2004), No Direction Home - Bob Dylan (id., doc., 2005), The Departed (The Departed - Il bene e il male, 2006), Shutter Island (id., 2010), George Harrison - Living in the Material World (doc., 2011), Hugo (Hugo Cabret, 2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (id., 2013), Silence (id., 2016), The Irishman (id., 2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (id., 2023).

Cast

& Credits

regia/director

Martin Scorsese

fotografia/cinematography

Robert Richardson, Russell Carpenter, Stuart Dryburgh, Simon Harding, Martin Kenzie, Ellen Kuras, Lisa Rinzler, Harris Savides, Peter Suschitsky

montaggio/film editing

David Tedeschi

suono/sound

Allan Zaleski

interpreti/cast

George Harrison, Astrid Kirchherr, Dhani Harrison, Eric Clapton, Eric Idle, George Martin, Harry Harrison, Jackie Stewart, Jane Birkin, Jim Keltner, Joan Taylor, Ken Scott, Klaus Voormann, Mukunda Goswami, Neil Aspinall, Olivia Harrison, Pattie Boyd, Paul McCartney, Peter Harrison, Phil Spector, Ray Cooper, Ringo Starr, Terry Gilliam, Tom Petty, Yoko Ono, Ravi Shankar

produttori/producers

Olivia Harrison, Nigel Sinclair, Martin Scorsese

produzione/production

Grove Street Pictures, Spitfire Pictures, Sikelia Productions, Grove Street Productions

vendita all’estero/world sales

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