The most entertaining rock doco –if you will, rockumentary –of the past year wasn’t much about music. Squaring the Circle is, instead, about Hipgnosis, the duo who went from LSD-scoffing Cambridge flatmates of early Pink Floyd to the guys putting refracting prisms, startled cows, and burning men on their album covers. And who also brought their visual pun-heavy, maximalist touch to the LP artwork of Led Zeppelin, 10CC, Paul McCartney and Wings, the Alan Parsons Project, and many more.
All three living Pink Floyd-ians turn up in the film by storied music photographer Anton Corbijn to pay tribute. So do