29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE: PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE
GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
by Martin Scorsese
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
Martin Scorsese (New York, NY, 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? His films include Mean Streets, Taxi Driver (Golden Palm in Cannes in 1976), Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York andThe Departed (Oscar for best director), making him – right from the 1970s – one of the most important American filmmakers.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (Chi sta bussando alla mia porta?, 1967)Mean Streets (Mean Streets - Domenica in chiesa, lunedì all’inferno, 1973),Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Alice non abita più qui, 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).
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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