From the Madhouse to the Marketplace

DISC D609
RUNNING TIME Overall, 78 minutes. For individual chapter timings, see listing above.
CONTENT The 2005 BBC Four Madhouse On Castle Street documentary that features solo on D613 (see review) is reprised here on D609 in the company of nine US TV ads, a punchy PBS trailer for Scorsese’s No Direction Home and - oddly - one track lifted from the Seattle July 2005 Amazon gig as seen on D586 and elsewhere. The Arena production is a heavily padded but nonetheless enjoyable 65 minutes of Memory Lane nostalgia. As it repeatedly asks: DO YOU HAVE IT? If not, you probably should, though whether on D613 or D609 is immaterial, for the makeweights on the latter, though okay, are not worth chasing by themselves. None (except the last, but source D586, D628 or D658 for that) is musically arresting. In both the Apple and E*Trade ads D keeps good pictorial company and in the two Victoria’s Secret ads he certainly looks every bit as Love Sick as he sounds. Unless you happen to take a professional interest in the advertiser’s art, though, you’ll probably find all the filler inconsequential, one-watch stuff. Tell Me That It Isn’t True is darker here than on D586 etc but otherwise the same pro-shot footage.
PRESENTATION/AUTHORING Nicely done: Madhouse is split into 12 chapters giving the disc 23 in all, all easily accessed via the elegantly simple three page menu.
DUO XIE Viner JL (GS too)
STARS On the strength of Madhouse, four. But if you already have that on D613, I’d not worry about this one too, for it offers little else.