Bob Geldof On His “Really Bad” Pink Floyd Film ‘The Wall,’ The “Catastrophic” Violence In The Middle East & Plans For An IMAX Film On Live Aid — Camerimage
deadline.comClassic rocker Bob Geldof is the latest high-profile name to pass through what is turning out to be a bustling and A-list edition of Poland’s EnergaCamerimage Film Festival, where he is presenting a screening of his 1982 feature Pink Floyd – The Wall.
Geldof plays the lead in the music drama, and he’s set to introduce the pic here at Camerimage with the film’s DoP Peter Biziou, who is the recipient of the festival’s lifetime achievement award.
When quizzed by journalists during a press Q&A in Poland whether he looked back on the feature, directed by Alan Parker, as a defining moment of his artistic career, Geldof’s response was definitive: “No, I don’t like the film.
I think I’m really bad.” “I’ve seen the movie twice, and I was embarrassed,” Geldof continued, adding that he could only finish working on the film because Biziou made it “very easy.” “I was just embarrassed every day by how shit I was,” he said. “I don’t like looking at myself.
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