Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) still sounds unconvincing in its ponderous sincerity and displays a critical lack of imagination in all departments." However, Robert Christgau wrote in "The Village Voice": "The music is not only simple and attractive, with the synthesizer used mostly for texture and the guitar breaks for comment, but it actually achieves some of the symphonic dignity (and cross-referencing) that "The Dark Side of the Moon" simulated so ponderously." He later wrote: "My favorite Pink Floyd album has always been "Wish You Were Here", and you know why? It has soul, that's why – it's Roger Waters's lament for Syd, not my
Wish You Were Here (2013 film) in composer Jordan Shapiro and a new cut and soundtrack were fashioned. The finished product was taken to the 2013 Cannes Film Festival by Beverly Hills based media company Buffalo 8, where Nelson Madison Films acquired the film for international rights. "Wish You Were Here" was released worldwide in 2013. "PR Buzz" described the film as "driven by a dynamic soundtrack, featuring an Americana score by Jordan Shapiro and the soulful songs of singer songwriter Dustin Louis Blank-- as well as a vibrant mix of up-and-coming indie songwriters and bands, culled by music supervisor Pirmin Marti." Jonathan Freeman-Anderson of "LA