This looks like something that is going to be very interesting. When we think of The Beatles, we think of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Ringo Star, but George Harrison is the one to have less publicity.
Only yesterday I was watching an interview with Martin Scorsese (the director of this film) on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, and here his name comes up again. This film is going to trace the life of George Harrison in an intensely personal film, whilst weaving together previously unseen archival materials, home movies, and interviews.
Harrison died in late 2001 but to me is still today an innovator of new musical ideas. The film screens in two parts on 5th and 6th October, exclusively on HBO.
"George Harrison: Living in the material world focuses the imaginative and inspired eye of one of cinema's most pre-eminent filmmakers on one of the world's most influential men. The film takes viewers on the musical and spiritual voyage that was George Harrison’s life, much of it told in his own words.
Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese traces Harrison's life from his musical beginnings in Liverpool through his life as a musician, a seeker, a philanthropist, and filmmaker. Scorsese weaves together interviews with Harrison and his closest friends, performances, home movies, and photographs. Much of the material in the film has never been seen (or heard) before. The result is a rare glimpse into the mind and soul of one of the most talented artists of his generation and a profoundly intimate and affecting work of cinema.
The film includes interviews with Eric Clapton, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, George Martin, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr and Jackie Stewart. They speak honestly and frankly about George's many talents and contradictions."
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