[AsmViktor]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1470665.story
George Harrison: Living in the Material World," which premieres Wednesday and Thursday on HBO, is a long, lovely meditation on the Beatle sometimes called the Quiet One and the quiet one sometimes called a Beatle. Directed by Martin Scorsese at the invitation of widow Olivia Harrison, it is not especially informative in the way documentaries usually strive to be, a cataloging of causes and effects and significant facts and figures; nor has it been made as a brief for George's unsung genius. In fact, it leaves a lot out and doesn't always explain what it puts in. But it is not really so much a film about a career as it is about a life and not so much about a life of events as of spiritual progress — a portrait of character more than of "a character."

Any new Beatles-related documentary is going to need to find a different way through familiar material, a way made more difficult by the group's own enormous 1995 "Anthology" (more than 11 hours in the DVD cut). Certainly some well-trod ground is trod here again, but Scorsese generally stays off the beaten path. Coming 10 years after Harrison's death from cancer at 58, "Living in the Material World" draws heavily on the singer's own collection of photographs, films, recordings and documents. There are letters read by his son, Dhani ("Don't think I've gone off my rocker because I haven't," he wrote home from India), self-portraits in a fisheye lens, a tape of his first sitar lesson with Ravi Shankar — "the first person to impress me," among the impressive people the Beatles met, "because he didn't try to impress me."

[Avoireeideree]

His last records are among his best, and life in the end came down to ukuleles and gardening, the sky and sea, and an evidently satisfying sense of his own temporality. (Scorsese's film, which takes its name from one Harrison song, might as easily have taken it from another: "All Things Must Pass.") Which, all this considered, is nice work if you can get it, in the immaterial material world.



Got a lot of work to do
Trying to get a message through
And get back out of this material world
( Harrison)

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[Abedgebeefs]

Awesome CR....!! Thank you for the heads up..!

[SweetCaroline]

Awesome CR....!! Thank you for the heads up..!

he died at 58 from lung cancer,("caught up in the material world")
had a bunch of Hare Krishna's( from what I've heard) and other "Buddhist types" around.

I don't think he was actually Buddhist -he never declared a religion, but all the things about temporality/ transtory nature of life and the world were part of his philosophy

[HexcewlyRette]

1 BUMP -'cuz it's time sensative.

[HOTgirlsXXL]

It is that kind of a day, Fittingly apra pro

[Bvghbopz]

Thanks Cosmic...he was a seeker it's a shame he died so young but we have his music.

[cepAceryTem]

Thanks Cosmic...he was a seeker it's a shame he died so young but we have his music.

George Harrison
1943 - 2001

“As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”

[JetePlentuara]

George comes to Los Angeles, with a stop at UCLA Medical Center, for drugs and pain management. Then he departs to Paul’s house on Heather in Beverly Hills, to die. It was 36 hours of George drifting in and out of consciousness, with his wife and son at his side. One outsider allowed was George’s friend Ravi Shankar, who played sitar music.

According to Shankar, George positioned two pictures of Hindu gods Krishna and Rama around his bed, and he chanted the Krishna mantra. Two more of George’s close friends from the Krishna faith, Shayam Sundara and Mukunda, were there chanting quietly into their meditation beads, while George passed away at 1:20pm on the 29th of November, 2001.

He was 58 years old.

http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/h...n/harrison.htm