Footage from this week’s big George Harrison documentary on HBO
Martin Scorsese paints an intriguing portrait of the “quiet Beatle”.
He was known as "the quiet Beatle". He was certainly the most enigmatic. So Martin Scorsese's biographical documentary, George Harrison Living in the Material World, is something of a revelation (see trailer below).
The film, airing over two nights (Wed. amd Thurs. at 9 p.m.) this week on HBO is an intriguing portrait of the Beatles' junior partner and guitarist.
It combines home movies, a landslide of priceless snapshots and recent interviews with Harrison's son Dhani, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Phil Spector and many others, conducted specifically for the film.
Of course there's a big void here: the voice of the late John Lennon.
Harrison's childhood and musical contributions during the Beatlemania years are well covered but it's worth sticking around for the days after the band broke up, when George's spiritual and aesthetic interests broadened considerably.
After his death from lung cancer in 2001, George's ashes were spread in India's Ganges River.
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