After premiering in the band’s native England back in April, the new documentary on Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, Have You Got It Yet?, is coming to theaters in the U.S. The feature created with the cooperation of Pink Floyd’s surviving members Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason will make landfall in the States on July 14th, playing in theaters throughout the country into late September.
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd opens stateside at the Quad Cinema in New York, NY with a run from July 14th–20th. After that, the film will travel across the country for limited engagements in theaters from coast-coast, with a West Coast premiere set for Laemmle NoHo 7 in North Hollywood July 21st–27th. For complete screening information visit the film’s website.
Along with the U.S. screening information, filmmakers have shared a new trailer. As unidentified voices speak over archival photos and video, one says, “The romantic ideal is that a creative person is drawn by something so powerful that he or she will follow that regardless of the price that has to be paid.” This idea of the “tortured genius” lays at the heart of Have You Got It Yet?—the first feature-length documentary on Barrett—as well as the legacy Syd left behind when he exited Floyd in 1968. After a pair of solo albums, Barrett lived as a recluse for three decades until his death in 2006, with Pink Floyd ascending to unimaginable heights and Syd’s mythical lore growing along the way.
Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (U.S. Trailer)
The film’s title comes from a song Barrett brought into his final practice with Pink Floyd. According to Waters, Barrett presented a seemingly simplistic composition, though the band experienced difficulty trying to learn it. Before long, the bandmates realized that they were unable to learn the song because Barrett continuously changed the song pattern, playing a slightly altered configuration back to them each time and ending it by singing, “Have you got it yet?” Waters called it “a real act of mad genius.”
In addition to Waters, Gilmour, and Mason, the film also includes testimonials from musicians Barrett inspired including The Who’s Pete Townshend, Blur’s Graham Coxon, MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden, and more. Other talking heads include former Pink Floyd managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Barrett’s sister Rosemary Breen. Have You Got It Yet? was directed by Roddy Bogawa and late Hipgnosis co-founder Storm Thorgerson, who designed album covers for Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Dark Side of the Moon, and many more.
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