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The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (The Criterion Assortment) [Blu-ray]
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Known as the best rock movie ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their infamous 1969 U.S. tour. When 300 thousand members of the Love Technology collided with a couple of dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin had been there to immortalize on movie the bloody slash that reworked a decade’s goals into disillusionment.
Side Ratio : 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Producer : No
MPAA score : PG (Parental Steering Urged)
Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4 ounces
Merchandise mannequin quantity : 6639468
Director : Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, David Maysles
Media Format : Colour, NTSC, Blu-ray
Run time : 1 hour and 31 minutes
Launch date : December 1, 2009
Actors : Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Invoice Wyman
Studio : Criterion Assortment
ASIN : B002P8O29K
Nation of Origin : USA
Variety of discs : 1
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Miss Pinky –
Altamont
This is an excellent documentary of the events that took place during The Rolling Stones 1969 free concert at The Altamont Speedway located in Northern California. The picture quality is great and the 5.1 sound is outstanding. Having watched this fine documentary I have come to the following top ten conclusions:
1. Don’t use the Hells Angels as stage security because they will do a thorough job of keeping people away from and off the stage as long as there’s plenty of free beer for them to drink. Whoever was responsible for hiring the HA should have been prosecuted for all bodily injuries inflicted to any innocent concert goer due to their very violent crowd control tactics. Talk about a foreseeable risk. I wish I could have been there though.
2.Do not pull out a gun and shoot at the stage when the Oakland and Frisco chapters of The Hells Angels are in charge of security because there are astronomical odds that you will not live to attempt another shot. Meredith Hunter was clearly killed in self-defense.
3. Marty Balin should not have thrown a tambourine at some Angels and then jumped off the stage into the crowd to fight with them. His own stupid decisions led to him getting knocked out. Did he really think that he would be treated differently than anyone else once he challenged an Angel ? I know that some rock musicians of the time were treated like gods by the fans, but come off of it.The Jefferson Airplane were from San Francisco and were well acquainted with the Hells Angels at this time, so he had to have known better.
4.Paul Kantner should not have mocked the Hells Angels at all, let alone over a microphone in front of 300,000 people. This only served to add fuel to the fire and caused an immediate and predictable response. What was he thinking ( see comment #3 ). It was a good thing that Grace Slick showed some common sense and tried to diffuse the tension or Kantner could well have received a beating as well. What an arrogant moron. At least The Rolling Stones were from England and thought the American Hells Angels were just like the English version of the MC. The Jefferson Airplane knew exactly how they could be in certain circumstances, so there was absolutely no excuse for Balin’s and Kantner’s actions.
4. Keith Richards has got guts and plays a mean guitar. He could have got stomped due to his challenging an Angel in front of the crowd and the rest of the club as well. He knew there was a movie being made too, so his beating would have embarrassingly been caught on film.
5. Mick Jagger’s ego took a beating before ( literally ), during, and after the concert. You could clearly see as Jagger sang Under My Thumb amid all the chaos that a H.A. member was glaring at Mick with a disgusted look on his face. This Angel appeared to just want an excuse to pummel Jagger.
6.The Hells Angels officers should not allow prospects and hang-arounds to help with crowd control while brandishing pool cues because they are going to use them to try to impress everyone.This will really tarnish your public image and lead the majority of society to deem your club as a violent, criminal menace even though you claim that you are not. It’s hard to argue with the film footage of the beatings.
7. Sam Cutler came across as complete jerk and someone should have popped him one.
8. Drug use played a huge role in this tragedy. Some Angels actually can be seen attempting to reason with these intoxicated, out of their mind people to no avail. I hate to say this but some people got exactly what they asked for when they annoyingly persisted to climb out of control over fans, the Hells Angels, their motorcycles, and other security personnel to get up on the stage, which I’ll agree with Sonny Barger was negligently built in height. Maybe the fact that they had to change the concert site so quickly had something to do with this obvious error in judgement on the part of the people in charge.
7. Sonny Barger knows how to make a cool entrance. I wonder if he knew they were filming the concert? If not, he seems to have a good sense of style.
8.Terry the Tramp loved to dance to The Rolling Stones music and looked cool doing it.
9. Annie Mae Bullock was smoking hot and I wish that I could have been that microphone and mike stand ( Sock it to me indeed ! ) Tina is also a better singer and performer than Mick Jagger and he clearly lets the viewer see this through a facial expression and some words he utters when he realizes that he now must follow her on stage in film footage from a previous concert on the tour ( Madison Square Garden I believe ).
10. In my opinion and not related to the movie, The Rolling Stones should have done everything humanly possible to keep Mick Taylor in the band. They have never sounded better than when he was playing with the rest of the group.They probably were the Greatest Rock and Roll Band of all time with Mick Taylor, instead of Ronnie Wood. The band sounds superb in this DVD.
All and all this DVD is not boring to say the least and contains some nice extra’s. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in The Stones, Hells Angels, the events that led up to this tragedy, or the 1960s.
DACHokie –
Maybe THE Best Rock Documentary … Ever
Of all the films devoted to popular music, only a handful rise to the top in my opinion: “Woodstock”, “Monterey Pop”, “The Song Remains the Same” and “Gimme Shelter”. All of these films feature the cream of the rock music world and three of them focus on the now outdated fad of music festivals. However, it is “Gimme Shelter” that separates itself from the rest as it is the only film that depicts the more sinister side of rock and roll … by displaying the greed and general contempt the upper echelon of rock music displays towards its mass of followers. “Gimme Shelter” is a one-of-a-kind film that is part concert film, part documentary and part drama/mystery/action/thriller. It has all the ingredients necessary to keep most viewers glued from start to finish … great music, hedonistic rock stars, crazy people and murder. It is shocking, insightful and downright haunting … even to this day.
A simplified summary of “Gimme Shelter” is that it documents the Rolling Stones on their 1969 American Tour that culminates with a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California. The film starts with Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts (the Rolling Stones drummer) viewing the footage of the free concert; this is followed by a series of radio interviews of those involved with the free concert. Right from the start, you realize that something horribly wrong must have occurred at this free concert. But, just like a good book, the film immediately returns the beginning of the story, the optimistic and exciting start of the Stones’ ’69 tour … forcing the viewer to see everything that leads-up to the impending drama.
As “Gimme Shelter” proceeds, we are treated with some excellent concert performances of that ’69 tour (including Tina Turner’s stirring, soulful and sexually-charged version of “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long”). The Rolling Stones appear to be in top form as they appear before sold out venues, complete with adoring fans jumping on the stage to get a piece of the superstar, Mick Jagger. Between the concert footage of the Rolling Stones tour, the viewer is given a “behind-the-scenes” view of the colossal effort involved in organizing the grand finale … the free concert in California … “Woodstock West”. Additional footage of the band offstage and in-between venues displays the cool, arrogant nature of Jagger, as well as an incoherent and apparently drugged Keith Richards. It appears very clear that the Rolling Stones are only expected to show up for this scheduled free concert … as they casually discuss this pending event, we see the organizers frantically trying to make the event a reality … you immediately sense that it could be a disaster.
Once it the free concert is finalized … at the Altamont Speedway … the remainder of the film is devoted exclusively to that concert. Serving as a documentary of the times, the viewer is treated to seeing the migration of some 300,000 concert-goers to the Altamont Speedway … a graphic and thoroughly entertaining display of drugs, outrageous attire, uncontrollable body movements and general lunacy. Then, the mood of the film becomes darker as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club literally takes over … the crowd and the film. As the opening acts of the concert perform, the violence begins as bikers begin beating concert-goers, as well as the Jefferson Airplane’s Marty Balin. By the time the Rolling Stones appear, it is night-time and obvious that it is the Hells Angels who are in control. As the Stones play their music, the crowd’s vocal reaction to the violence drowns out the music and there are points where the band is forced to stop playing in order to try and calm the situation. Finally, when things appear calmer and the band begins playing “Under My Thumb”, violence suddenly erupts again and tragedy strikes. At this point, we realize what the beginning of the movie was all about. The ending of the film clearly depicts the Rolling Stones fleeing the disaster of their free concert by cramming into a helicopter … leaving their fans to fend for themselves in a sea of Hells Angel-infested waters … an eerie and lasting impression.
“Gimme Shelter” is a must-see for any fan of rock music, the Rolling Stones or popular American culture. The footage is raw and entertaining … it grabs a hold of the viewer and digs in. The Criterion Collection version of this film has greatly improved the visual quality of the original footage and offers a few extras that were not included in the original video release.
Robert Glover –
I hadn’t seen this film for many, many years. I originally saw it after midnight at a basement videotek on Yonge Street in Toronto. It hasn’t lost its edge as a film, a concert or a situation. Perhaps it seems uglier or perhaps now is simply clearer now of how ugly it all was and how little things have changed for the better. The Hells Angels are hired to act as guardians for a Rolling Stones fundraising concert in San Francisco and end up beating up performers on stage and people in the audience. The film and the concert remain extraordinary in showing the early (and continuing) dark days of our own time.
Fisherman –
Für Fans der 60er-Jahre-Popmusik nice to have, für Stones-Fans ein must have.
Hilft dabei, die richtigen Antworten zu dem Altamont-Desaster zu finden.
Pieter –
Dure blu ray release van deze, prachtig door Criterion gerestaureerde, klassieker.
Mooie natuurlijke transfer met de natuurlijk aanwezige grain erin, prima DTS soundtrack en interessante extraâs maken dit een essentiële aankoop ondanks de hoge prijs.
Amazon heeft het er niet bijstaan maar dit is een Amerikaanse Regio 1 release die NIET afspeelbaar is op je Europese blu ray speler, tenzij die is omgebouwd.
P G LEDWIDGE –
Incompatible Region Encoding. Blu Ray is encoded region A and supplied from USA.
Leila –
I have now 3 DVD’S which revolve around documentaries made. The first ordered was 50TH ANNIVERARY”HURRICANE CROSSFIRE. The other is “THE ROLLLING STONES, THE MICK TAYLOR YEARS 1969-1974. Today I received delivery of “GIMME SHELTER” which turns out to be another comprehensive documentary of “The Rolling Stones”. Last they were in Adelaide was around 1995 and by that time unfortunately for them the very talented Mick Taylor was no longer with the band he left in 1974 after 5 and a half years he left suddenly. He was at the tender age of 20 he was considered a Virtuoso Guitarist billed at no. 37 on Rolling Stones top 100 world Guitarists and that is amazing really there are so many excellent talent. One documentary quotes Mick Jagger a very shroud business man was the one who missed Taylor the most and Richards was happy to see him go as he was jealous of his technique and talent. This program once again goes over all this period Dire Straits who are just simply superb live, so good in fact that their records do not do them justice, that is how tight they were. On the other hand The Rolling Stones are so loose there is a serious wobble when they play. What I mean is they are not playing in time with each other. The only member who played to Jagger’s voice was Taylor and Jagger loved that. I would say yes buy the DVD I have actually really enjoyed watching this band evolve from very tender young age to their 50th Anniversary. They are due to play at the inaugural opening of the new Adelaide Oval, in South Australia in March 2014. They have not been here for 18 years and I thought live they did not sound as good as their records. Yes the early music is good and everyone want to hear their early hits but it is a pity they have that WOBBLE. I respect them for their longevity I believe Jagger is the driving force that has kept them together. I do not know how they do it they virtually sat in each other’s pockets for years. I think it is sad they did not give Taylor his dues for his writing contributions although it was falling apart with Keith Richard’s jealously toward Taylor and it is suggested Taylor never intended to stay with them for ever as he says on one disc. I love documentaries to watch at how these bands evolves. What makes them tick and how they interacted with each other. I must say I was surprised that they during these times they were not always in the same room when recording and they would dub different people in at different times. As for any of these Rolling Stones Documentaries they are really worth buying all and watching this band evolve from 1962 through to today and still together. Personally I think their lives were chaotic when on tour or when they lived in the South of France. Well good luck to them for making it to 50 years and all alive unbelievable that Keith managed to kick the habit as it was serious for sure, good on him. I first came across Hurricane Crossfire on Australian SBS2 TV watched it then decided to order some fro Amazon. Each week they feature different band or famous people. The saddest of them was watching Phil Spector documentary obviously he was a genius but a flawed one.