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Pink F BY TERRY DUGAS A Review The advertisements for "Pink Floyd"read "More than a movie."I would rate it as being less than a T. V. show. The film was made several years ago by an Italian company and just released in America to capitalize on the success of the album "Dark Side of the Moon." The film can be described as boring at best and painful at worst. That boredom comes from the amateurish direction and camera wdirector appears to be CORKA (Located in 5 P< for the LAF imported wirn town visit Asrr ISangria Lambrus a n example 1 4oz. Milwaukee $6.2( 1 2oz. Budweiser $6.70 1 2oz. Pabst $5.65 case foyd: 'Bor sayi'- 'that he. too. can use fancy tech. ;ues tht ill the other films use. Unfortunately, he has no reason to use them. There is no continuity between segments except for a meaninaless episode in which Pink Floyd eats at a diner. The director used traveling shots of speakers and electronic equipmeRt for reason other than to show the equipment. Multiple images and back projection are used with no thematic purpose in mind. The most puzzling part of the film is the obsession with the Lum's Draft Roast *Fish Open I a Monday 20056 In F kSMER'1 ND BOTTI ints at corner of I EGEST SELECTiH at the LOWE per's Wholesal milch 1.I 1 . CO 1.' of the nmony wines on s~ case W4 case con pa, 54-7484 254-6074 ing at best, drummer. The camera is con stantly focused on the drummer. This obscures the talents fo the rest of the group and becomes boring very quickly. If there is any reason to the use of shots in the film it- may be because the director had seen them used beofre. The split screen was most success for in "Woodstock." so the director usdd it in "Floyd " The scenes of the Beatles recor ding in the studio were some of the better parts of "Let It Be," so studio scenes were used in "Floyd.' Canadian film maker Norman Specialty Beer Beef & Chips .M. antl 12 p.M. -Sattuday reen Street ive Points .E SHOP larden & Blossom )N of ST PRICES in a Departmeni ~9I ....J i also corry a iplet. line of fy mixers. painful a McLaren has had much success drawing images on film and protraying strings vibrating to music so it was done in "Floyd" So much of the film was sensehv-I The only successful part of the film was in the opening segment, "Echoes, Part One." The music of Echoes is haunting and moody. To visually e xpress this, the director lised a montage of paintings, sculptures, and ruins from Pompeii. The effect was to heighten the sense of isolation and fraility that accompaniews sthe music. Unfortunately, the director |.504 ROOM SIZI HUNDREDS AND ST TO CHOOSE ; I SAMPI COLUMBIA ( 2738 Devine GAMEC USC Gamecock 11 execut MOTOR HOTE N. DRUID HILLS RI BUS TRANSPORTA1 EXECUTIVE PARK'S FOOT BALL SPECI AL RATES sINGLE OR 00UBLE TRIPLE OR QUAD. 4 CALL COLLECT FOR SPE (404) 321 OR WRITE EXEnUTIVE aMOTO N( worst' proceeded to destroy the mood by superimposing shots of the group walking around the steam holes and boiling mud flats surrounding Pompeii and then cuting to stock footage of lava flows and volcanoes. Nothing destroys a mood like excess. There .is no reason to see this film. If youare a Pink Floyd fan, you will be disappointed at the lack of coverage of the groups vir tuosity and upset by the visual images which destroy the mood of the music. If you are not a Floyd fan, you will fall asleep. Off CARPETS OF COLORS YLES FROM. ES 35 ARPETS ,INC. St. 253-6917. :OCKS i -Georgia ve park L ATLANTA 1. A I-8S NORTH ION AVAILAsE *gUEE CIAL RESERVATIONS -5011 kWIL, 1447 N.E. E XPaIssway GIA 30329