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Adrian Maben | |
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 Adrian Maben in Pompeii (2022) | |
| Born | Adrian Mitchell Maben 30 June 1942 Chippenham, Wiltshire, England |
| Died | 28 October 2025 (aged 83) Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France |
| Occupations | Film and television director, writer, and producer |
| Employer | ORTF |
| Known for | Film documentaries on music and art |
| Notable work | Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972) |
Adrian Maben (1942–2025) was a British film and television director, writer, and producer.[1][2]
Maben directed a number of films and documentaries on music and art, in particular Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii in 1972, featuring the rock band Pink Floyd playing in the Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii.[3] He worked for the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF) between 1970 and 1973. Maben directed the news programme Soir 3 on France 3. He was born British but obtained French nationality.
In 1991, he was a conference speaker along with the director Robert Altman and the composer Carl Stone, chaired by the film historian Michael Renov.[4] A director's cut of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was re-edited by Maben in 2003, with additional images of the Solar System.[5]
Maben made several documentary films on artists such as René Magritte (1978), Paul Delvaux (1987), and Hieronymus Bosch (2003), and the photographer Helmut Newton (1989).[1] In 2016, he held an exhibition at Pompeii in Italy.[6]
Filmography and television
[edit]Maben directed the following:[7][8][9]
- Opération Apollo[10] (1969)
- Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972)[11]
- Phonzeit (1975)
- Monsieur René Magritte (1978)[12][13]
- James Brown Soul Brother No. 1: The James Brown Story (1978)[14]
- Raoul Coutard in Étoiles et toiles (1982)
- Le petit théâtre de Bouvard (1982)
- Paul Delvaux: The Sleepwalker of Saint Idesbald (1987)[15]
- Le grand escalator (1987)
- Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge (1989)[16]
- A Window to Heaven (1990)[17]
- Riviera (1991)
- La case de l'oncle Doc (1997)
- The Khmer Rouge: Power and Terror (2001)[18]
- Ourasi, le roi fainéant (2003)
- All Hell Let Loose: The Demonic World of Hieronymus Bosch (2003)
- Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut) (2003)[5]
- The Making of Ça Ira (2005)
- Comrade Duch: The Bookkeeper of Death (2011)[19]
- Pink Floyd: Chit Chat with Oysters (2013)
References
[edit]- 1 2 "The Accidental Legend of Adrian Maben". Il Mattino. Italy. 6 November 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ↑ Rapata, Tony (5 November 2025). "In Memoriam: Adrian Maben". pinkfloydz.com. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ↑ "Why Pink Floyd At Pompeii is a Must Watch – Music Documentary". Vinyl Rewind. YouTube. 2025. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ↑ Sound & Images in Films on Art: A Conference on Music and Sound in Films about the Visual Arts. University of California. 1991. pp. 31–32.
- 1 2 Reisch, George A., ed. (2007). Pink Floyd and Philosophy: Careful with that Axiom, Eugene!. Open Court. p. 55. ISBN 978-0812696363.
- ↑ Gilmour, David (15 May 2025). "Gallery Walkthrough with Adrian Maben and Polly Samson". YouTube. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ↑ "Adrian Maben". IMDb. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
- ↑ "Adrian Maben". Mubi. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ↑ "Films directed by Adrian Maben". Letterboxd. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
- ↑ "Opération Apollo". Archive.org (in French). France: Institut national de l'audiovisuel. 6 December 2020. Archived from the original on 6 December 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ Lahtinen, Anu; Vainio-Korhonen, Kirsi, eds. (2004). History & Change. Finnish Literature Society. p. 188. ISBN 978-9517465809.
- ↑ Fischer, Lucy (2019). "Art Documentaries about Magritte / Magritte's "Home Movies" – Monsieur René Magritte (Adrian Maben, 1978)". Cinemagritte: René Magritte Within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice. Wayne State University Press. pp. 32–33. ISBN 978-0814346389.
- ↑ Cornici di Celluloide (15 August 2025). "Specchi falsi e schermi veri. Il cinema alla prova di René Magritte". "Cinecittà News" (in Italian). Italy. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ↑ Wesley, Fred (2019). "James Brown: Soul Brother No. 1". The Rock History Reader (3rd ed.). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315394824-23. ISBN 978-9517465809.
- ↑ Delvaux, Paul; Barthelman, Z.; van Deun, J. (2007). Paul Delvaux: Odyssey of a Dream. Foundation Paul Delvaux. p. 49. ISBN 978-9085864073.
- ↑ Rabey, David Ian; Gritzner, Karoline, eds. (2006). Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 38, 82. ISBN 978-1840026726.
- ↑ Sound & Images in Films on Art: A Conference on Music and Sound in Films about the Visual Arts. University of California. 1991. p. 67.
- ↑ Koch, Julian Johannes Immanuel (2023). "The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide". European Journal of Cultural Studies. 27 (5). doi:10.1177/136754942312015.
- ↑ Boyle, Deirdre (2020). "23. Interviewing the Devil: Interrogating Masters of the Cambodian Genocide". In Juhasz, Alexandra; Lebow, Alisa (eds.). A Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 506–523. ISBN 978-1119685661.
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