Now available for US and Canadian pre-order – release date May 1, 2012
George Harrison, Living in the Material World documentary
Life and times of The Beatles George Harrison is a much anticipated BBC Special.
The documentary will have its UK première at the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool on 2 October 2011, and will air on HBO in two parts on 5 and 6 October in the US. Wikipedia
This DVD or Blu-Ray will be a must own for all fans of The Beatles.
“Living in the Material World” promo clip
The DVD and Blu-Ray release dates for George Harrison: Living in the Material World 
Scorsese, along with his lifetime of great movies, has made several excellent rock and roll documentaries before – The Band The Last Waltz [Blu-ray]
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From Variety
Scorsese said the former Beatles’ life was a remarkable musical and spiritual voyage. He and Olivia Harrison both said George Harrison was always trying to find the balance between the physical and the spiritual, hence the film’s title.
“I grew up a Roman Catholic and wanted to become a priest, so it is a subject matter that has never left me. The more you’re in the material world, the more the search for serenity,” Scorsese said.
Harrison said she spent countless hours pouring through her husband’s notes, cassette tapes and photos. Many of those materials have never been made public before.
Film also uses never-before-seen footage in tracing the guitarist and songwriter’s life, from his days with the Beatles until his death in 2001. It includes interviews with those closest to him, including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Eric Idle, Tom Petty, Yoko Ono and Phil Spector.
Harrison wrote and released songs until his death. One note his widow found: “Goats on a roof.”
Project reteams Scorsese, Sinclair and exec producer Margaret Bodde, who worked together on “No Direction Home.”
“Living in the Material World” is now being edited by David Tedeschi, who cut both “No Direction Home” and “Shine a Light.”
Scorsese said he worked on the doc simultaneously with “Shutter Island,” and that working on a nonfiction film and a feature at the same time is a liberating experience. Similarly, he worked on “No Direction” at the same time that he was making “The Aviator.”
“In a complicated way, it frees me from the constrictions of a feature. I have a narrative freedom,” Scorsese said.
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