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Movie Info
Genre(s): Musical
Written by:
Directed by:
Albert Maysles
David Maysles
Charlotte Zwerin
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 11, 2000
DVD: November 14, 2000
Running Time: 91 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG
Starring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman
This re-release of the 1970 classic documentary chronicles the Rolling Stones' American tour, culminating in the violence and death at the Altamont concert.
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What The Critics Said
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Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Movies don't get any more real than this.
Boston Globe Steve Morse
The impact of this stunning film - and the lessons to be learned from it - are as remarkable as when it was first released 30 years ago.
Miami Herald Curtis Morgan
Remains a remarkable, almost timeless study.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Remains the only rock & roll film that exerts the saturnine intensity of a thriller.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
Timeless, and as fine a depiction of human folly as you're likely to see at the movies.
Variety Staff (not credited)
Captures that petulant omnisexuality that made many adults consider Jagger a threat to their daughters, sons and household pets alike.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Signals the real end of the party, charting a denouement that arcs from blissful ignorance to violence and its ever-present threat to a final retreat.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Editor
Disturbing, powerful essay on one aspect of the rock and drug culture at the end of the 1960s.
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
The topic is well-suited to the Maysles brothers, who helped pioneer reality-centered "direct cinema" techniques.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A strong example of the cinema verite style at work, yet few films of the school show up the crisis of its "noninvolvement" policy more tellingly.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
brian gave it a10:
Excellent, even if just for the live performances and as one reviewer mention the moments such as the Stones listening to Wild Horse for the first time in the studio. The Stones had some terrific live moments in the late 60's and early 70's. This is a must have for any Stones fan. The only non-bootleg material from this era and 1000 times better than the Best Buy only 4 Flicks crap. Far better than any of the other live Stones DVDs. Oh yeah, there's the rest of the documentary which has also fascinated me since the late 70's when I first became a Stones fan. Great footage, documentary. In that regard it's on of the best rock documentaries ever, right up there with Dylan's Don't Look Back.
jose r. gave it a10:
Grande filme. O contraponto ao "Woodstock" e o fim do "flower power".
Pat C. gave it a 4:
Full of significance for those who look for it, but it's just a back-stage pass to a concert policed by the gestapo.
Yoon Min C. gave it a 9:
Like the best of cinema verite works, this fuzzball of a movie offers everything--comedy, drama, tragedy. It's a documentary of the crazy speedball combo of idealism, greed, naivete, cunning, insanity, and art that often came together in the 60s to produce such events as this. Often mentioned as a cautionary counterpoint to utopian claims for Woodstock, it's simply fascinating on its own terms. The dark humor mostly arises from the collision between Hell's Angels' beer drenched boorishness and the dazed acidrocked delirium of the fans--"don't lean on my bike, man!!" "huh??". If no one had died, this would have been the funniest comedy, intentional or otherwise, ever.
Blanco A. gave it a 10:
If you've never seen Mick Jagger doing his thing in his prime, you're missing out. The scene during which the band first hears the "Wild Horses" demo is beautiful and unparalleled. What Keith Richards is on, I have no idea, but that's cool.
