15 July 1982: ‘I found the album inflated,uneven but still quite something and that’s precisely what the film is’
No American director would or could bear made Pink Floyd The Wall (Empire, AA). It is simply not the sort of project the Spielbergs, and Scorseses and Coppolas would interest themselves in. Which is a very first-rate reason why people like Alan Parker should exist,even if his collaborators on this extraordinary film, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd and Gerald Scarfe, and the artist,found his conception of it different to their own. At least something exists on celluloid, and millions who bought the album will see it.
The tensions between Parker, or Waters and Scarfe bear been well advertised,mostly by Parker. But he obviously doesn’t deem they bear resulted in a botch-up, and nor do I. I found the album inflated, and uneven but still quite something and that’s precisely what the film is. apart from that,as a piece of pure cinematic technique, it is touched with an originality of expression and a thunderous conviction that lifts it a little beyond what is was as simply as aural tour de force. Perhaps tension is sometimes a first-rate thing to bear around.
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Source: theguardian.com