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CSNY: Déjà Vu

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CSNY: Déjà Vu reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary  |  Musical

Written by: Mike Cerre
Neil Young

Directed by: Neil Young

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 25, 2008
DVD: September 30, 2008

Running Time: 96 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for some language and brief war images

Starring David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young

Since their debut in the late 'sixties, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have functioned as the "town criers" of their generation. Though fondly remembered for their harmonies and love songs, the band has never lost their political edge. "CSNY: Deja Vu" finds the band heading out on their "Freedom of Speech 2006" of North America, featuring music from Neil Young's controversial "Living With War" CD. The film also examines events surrounding the Tour in the crucial election season of 2006. Songs from the Tour are woven together with archival material, news footage, and audience reaction and observations, as the film examines the issues surrounding the integration of politics and art. (Roadside Attractions)

What The Critics Said

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75

Chicago Tribune Sid Smith

By no means a typical concert movie; the selections are played mostly in short takes and snippets. It's more a road movie with music, its war topic treated with earnest seriousness.

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75

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Doesn’t break any new documentary ground, but it does exactly what it sets out to do: Preserve a live event and make it available to a broader audience.

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70

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

One of the great strengths of CSNY is how skillfully it deflects criticism of "four balding hippie millionaires" taking to the stage to criticize American politics; the film is peppered with excerpts from some of the tour's earliest and nastiest critics.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

The average age of the band's members is 62. They don't even bother to disguise that fact. These men look like your grandfather, right up until the downbeat. Then the magnificence of their playing sweeps away all concepts of age. Rock on.

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70

Los Angeles Times Gary Goldstein

Though it may be another in a long line of choir-preaching, anti-Iraq war documentaries, CSNY/Déjà Vu, Neil Young's effective hybrid of concert film and political snapshot, is one of the shrewdest and most entertaining of the bunch.

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67

Portland Oregonian Stan Hall

What saves CSNY/Dejà Vu from its self-importance is the surprisingly lively, timely and timeless music. The only dicey onstage moments involve Stills' falling over or wheezing his way through "For What It's Worth."

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63

Boston Globe Ty Burr

The film, like the tour it documents, wallops you in the face with politics.

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60

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

"I hate this stinkin' war," Neil Young announces in this chronicle of CSNY's "Freedom of Speech Tour," and the rest of the movie is just as unapologetically blunt.

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60

Variety John Anderson

Making music, making fun of themselves and making as much political hay as possible, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young set out to alleviate the public allergy to Iraq War films with CSNY Deja Vu, a doc that seems quite likely to effect a cure.

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50

Village Voice Michelle Orange

The film's mishmash of news footage and concert reviews threatens to devolve into a CSNY wank-fest.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Aidin Vaziri

The documentary seems equally divisive. Like most of Young's recent work, it's scattered and unsubtle.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

The music isn't much of a relief either, mostly because Young keeps cutting away from the performances.

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50

The New York Times Neil Genzlinger

Has some delicious moments, but you never quite shake the feeling that it’s documenting a tempest in a teapot.

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42

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White

The concerts themselves are only exciting when Young is at center stage. Although a balding millionaire in his 60s, he retains the ragged energy of a rock 'n' roll road warrior. Not so with the other members, particularly Stills.

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25

New York Post Kyle Smith

If Young ever converses with the gentlemen from al Qaeda, I expect his comments to be along the lines of "Please don't cut my head off."

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Dylan G. gave it an8:
From Kyle Smith's review: 'Given the way the situation in Iraq has improved, though, another CSNY album could have provided a far more appropriate title: "Daylight Again."' "Improved"? For whom? I'm sure the Iraqis are seeing plenty of daylight. Sheesh.

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