Neil Young In Berlin
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Actor: Neil YoungDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Movie Reviews of Neil Young In Berlin
Movie Review: Working new boundaries
Summary: 5 Stars
Back in 1983, one of the first releases oriented to the emergent video market, a way to bring to distant consumers and fans musical performances otherwise limited to the lucky public present at them, Neil Young's "Berlin" reflected the sharp and original sensitivity of an artist that not merely perceives as also suggests and elaborates response to great impacts brought to all living people, meaning the outspread of personal computers and the imminent fall of the communism. Surrounded by a band carefully picked among his former gatherings (Buffalo Springfield's bassist Bruce Palmer, Crazy Horse's drummer Ralph Molina, post CSNY mate Nils Lofgren, Stray Gators" Ben Keith and Stills-Young Band percussionist Joe Lala) Neil performs a tight set (one hour long) where we have one of the few opportunities to watch his songs devoted to this concern ("Computer age", "Transformer man", "Sample and hold") how to surpass the artificiality and coldness of computerized tools and bring them to life. There, in the land of Kraftwerk, the kings of the rhythm machines, at one of the extreme borders of the so called occidental world, and using heavily devices as Vocoders that transformed voices and instruments beyond the human extent, the artist is able to superimpose those "obstacles" with warmth, lyrism and open emotions. Sure it helps having great performances of some of his hits as "Cinnamon girl", "Hurricane" and "After the gold rush". The movie is perfectly captured by director Michael Lindsay-Hogg and the picture is very sharp. The sound was excellent at the time but this version suffers from not being newly remixed. It sounds as if it was pushed a little too hard in the equalization, but is not a problem at all. I only expected more from this great video, as well as having "Weld" (Neil and Crazy Horse's 1990 spectacular show) released in the DVD format.
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