The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 06 December, 1970
DVD Release : 14 November, 2000 |
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The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection Customer Reviews
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The Stones on film.
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I'm eager to see if Martin Scorcese's unreleased Stones' movie (Shine a Light) will outshine this 1970 classic. The best Stones' film made thus far, Gimme Shelter is a compelling documentary chronicling the Rolling Stones' tumultuous 1969 US tour, which ended with the infamous Altamont Free Concert near San Francisco. The film includes footage of the Madison Square Garden concert, the band's studio recording of "Wild Horses," and the Altamont Speedway concert, where the cameras catch a member of the Hells Angels fatally stabbing an 18-year-old black man (Meredith Hunter) during the band's performance of "Under My Thumb," while Jagger watches on from the stage. (Ironically, the Angels were working crowd "security" for the 300,000 person concert.) Ultimately, the film becomes a reality check for the good, the bad, and the ugly nature of rock and roll. The film also includes performances of "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," "You Gotta Move," "Wild Horses" (in the studio at Muscle Shoals), "Brown Sugar," "Love in Vain," "Honky Tonk Women," "Street Fighting Man," "Sympathy for the Devil" (which was the last live performance for nearly a decade), and "Gimme Shelter." The film is also significant because (in my opinion) it marked the end of The Golden Age of the Rolling Stones.
The Criterion edition of the film features a high-definition transfer of the uncensored 30th Anniversary version, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 surround sound mixes, new performances of the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in 1969, including "Little Queenie," "Oh Carol," and "Prodigal Son," plus backstage outtakes, audio commentary by directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, and collaborator Stanley Goldstein, excerpts from KSAN Radio's Altamont wrap-up, recorded December 7, 1969, with new introductions by then-DJ, Stefan Ponek, an Altamont stills gallery, featuring the work of photographers Bill Owens and Beth Sunflower, and "The Rolling Stones, Altamont, and GIMME SHELTER," a 44-page booklet with essays by Jagger's former assistant Georgia Bergman, music writers Michael Lydon and Stanley Booth, ex-Oakland Hell's Angels chapter head Sonny Barger, and film critics Amy Taubin and Godfrey Cheshire.
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