| Paul McCartney: In the World Tonight | | Cast : | Paul McCartney | | Director : | Geoff Wonfor | | Studio : | Wea/Rhino | | Format : | Color | | Released Date : | January 01, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | July 21, 1998 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | NR (Not Rated) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | for the love of paul | Content
 | INTERRESTING DOCUMENTARY BUT IT IS PITY THAT THE DVD WAS NOT SUBTITLE IN FRENCH LIKE THE FRENCH TV VERSION ! |
| Rating | | | Date | December 28, 2003 | | Summary | Beautiful Pie | Content
| Sometime ago I bought in Hong Kong the VCD version of this superb artist's work for Flaming Pie, one of his most accomplished album ever.
It's always rewarding watching an artist at work. See the places and people around him. The actual instruments played, etc. I specially enjoyed George Martin's orchestra input and rehearsal for the recording of Beautiful Night. It's really powerful the way it blends with the basic melody and Paul's singing (and Ringo's drumming!).
Images of World Tonight somehow reminded me of The Magical Mistery Tour, which I saw in December 1967 (then a kid) when first shown on British TV...cool! Now, I don't quite see a guy like Paul hanging around the streets listening to his own tunes carrying a radio - he's probably a bit too mature for that |
| Rating | | | Date | July 31, 2002 | | Summary | Macca's Triumphant Flaming Pie | Content
| Interesting footage of Sir Paul as he puts together his best album in....well, quite awhile. Includes videos for The World Tonight, a VH-1 town meeting, Paul and Ringo, Paul and Steve Miller, Paul and Jeff Lynne. Also included are Macca discussing painting, his knighthood, his studio, working with Sir George Martin on Beautiful Night. It's all quite a diverse little trip inside the world of Paul McCartney and a good compliment to the truly wonderful Flaming Pie. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 22, 2002 | | Summary | A Shocker | Content
| The thing with Paul is that he gives nothing away. There is nothing new in this doco. It is just egomaniac Paul going on and on about what a suberb bloke he is. There are some very embarrassing moments in this. Definitly one I wouldn't play to my mates! |
| Rating | | | Date | December 26, 2001 | | Summary | A Lesson in Studio Arts and Music | Content
| "In the World Tonight," is an intimate 1997 lesson in studio arts set to the music of Paul McCartney's album Flaming Pie. The cinema verite camera lends initmacy as Paul speaks, sings, plays, and improvises in his music studios, animation studio, and television studio. But the television aspect ratio and light editing of the home-movie styled shots leave Paul in the center of the screen almost all of the time--so the cinematography is a little predictable. In the film you might expect to see the result of Paul having a movie camera follow him around throughout his career. Paul uses relaxed poses around a campfire in a woods, boyish facial expressions and charming movements in his home studio, bright reactions in the television studio, and serious looks in the Abbey Road studio. Voice, song, music, drawing, painting, animation, and architecture all play a part in making this "home movie" of a historic artist stay fresh. But, like a home movie, the loose style of the film leaves a couple of funny shots or shots that could be a little embarassing too.
Musicians and artists should like "In the World Tonight" because it gives a close up look at how Paul speaks, sings, plays, composes, draws, or paints in unique home, public, and arena settings. You can see Paul improvise funny songs and sing in his studio and rehearsing or recording with Ringo at home, and you can see him in formally orchestrated recording sessions at Abbey Road Studio and performing before a historic audience of 180,000 people in an arena in South America. The cinema verite film is also a news reel of Paul's life in the mid 1990's. Paul's daughter Mary and her husband Alistaire produced and directed the film. Wife Linda sings informally with Paul in the recording studio, and rides horseback with him in the woods, but she appears in the film to be a more secondary figure than she has seemed after her death, but her appearance could be a major part in the film. In the segment that documents Paul's award of knighthood toward the end of the film, Paul says that knighthood gives you a chance to make your girlfriend a Lady, but Linda always was a lady. |
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