Let's Rock Again
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Dick Rude, Luke Bullen, Martin Slattery, Scott Shields, Tymon Dogg Director: Dick Rude Brand: Image Entertainment Cinematographer: Dick Rude Editor: Dick Rude Producer: Dick Rude Producer: Joe Strummer Editor: Arnaud Gerardy Producer: Lucinda Strummer DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 67 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Image Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Let's Rock Again
Movie Review: Sad but true -- great music
Summary: 4 Stars
"Let's Rock Again!" tells the story of Joe Strummer, a man who ended up having to remind the world that "I was in the Clash." Dick Rude's film, shot in 2001 and 2002, followed the onetime punk star and his new band, the Mescaleros, as they toured the States and Japan. It covers the 18 months before the singer's death of a heart defect.
The film and DVD extras show Strummer signing endless autographs while listening to fans tell how he changed their lives. "Everybody's got a story to tell," Strummer explains. "You can't hurry them along." Rude calls his old friend "a born sweetheart."
Strummer took a decade off after the Clash went supernova. His young band was a hard sell, but the music was good and his shows made fans happy with "nuggets from the past." The main DVD extra is a treat: Strummer and the boys working through "The Harder They Come" and dub-era Clash songs like "Armagideon Time."
Director Rude did a 15-minute Q&A session at the Tribeca film festival, included here as an extra. He tells the audience it was "very difficult for me to cut this movie" after Strummer died.
Other extras have Strummer talking about his life on the road. "Performing is partly joy and partly terror, and you have to be able to deal with both emotions. It takes a lot of spirit to perform." One of the last extra clips has Strummer considering the death of another punk star, Joey Ramone: "It doesn't seems real. ... He was one of the best."
Images are full-screen; audio is in stereo. The presentation is good enough, despite some here-and-there synch problems.