Shine a Light
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Movie Reviews of Shine a Light
Movie Review: The Fly's-Eye View
Summary: 5 Stars
Shine a Light, filmed at a smallish good-acoustics venue in New York City by a dream team of cinematographers and Martin Scorsese, gives a look at the Rolling Stones that no seat in that theatre could have provided.
Want to know how they interact as they play? Here, you can see the little gestures, the body language, the shifting, flowing response to the immediate. And the gleeful, conspiratorial grins.
Want to really hear a concert you don't want to struggle to filter out the crowd noise to appreciate? Try this at home.
Keith Richards produces riffs of introduction that are Beethoven Fifth familiar, related to each other as siblings but individual.
Mick Jagger is still the quintessential performer, the front man focus of the band.
Charlie Watts lays the rhythm down, Ron Woods and Richards take it up, Jagger puts it out there, and the other backing troupe amp the push.
The guest performers were well-chosen, and Buddy Guy was. . . wow! Just, wow!
Whatever you might have thought a Stones performance ought to be, it is captured here, and preserved in a shining light.
Movie Review: Rolling Stones Know How To Rock n' Roll
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW, it gets your blood rushing. Seeing Shine A Light provides you a front row seat at a Rolling Stones concert along with a back stage pass at the same time. Even a bit of a historic view of the Stones! The camera work is amazing. The Rolling Stones know how to Rock n' Roll like no other band on earth. They take Rock n' Roll they have done over the past 40 years and perform it in a way that allows it to be relevant Rock in 2008. It is primal and strong. Shine A Light even has country and of course, some great Blues. Buddy Giles number with the Stones, "Champaign and Refer", is amazing. Mick moves and rocks and Keith shows how he is a caring pirate. Ronnie is amazing and of course, the Stones drumming is constant and on track with Charlie. I'm 55 years old and the Stones start is up for me and my kids. AMAZING. Open your mind, remember your youth, enjoy good music and Rock out with your front row seats to a Stones concert by watching Shine A Light.Movie Review: Rollings Stones, Shine a Light
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this Film. It was able to relate to me the difficulties Scorsese had trying to get his head around this great band's method of preparing for a show.
It Starts out a little slow with background on filming then gets into the concert arena..
The mixing on the first couple sets could have been better but from there on the sound was great, with good close-ups of the band members, revealing their emotions and the enjoyment they obviously experience on stage.
The short interviews from the past and comments from the present were both enlightening and entertaining.
If you want to look into the stage lives of the greatest Rock-N-Roll Band of all, I highly recommend this DVD.
I intend showing it again as a party treat over refreshments with friends.
Should make for some interesting conversations, memories and laughs.
Movie Review: I now officially like the Rolling Stones
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to admit, I really didn't think much of the Rolling Stones either way when I was growing up. A song here and there I would really enjoy. There'd be moments when I be absolutely fascinated with Keith's adventures or Charlie's fantastic ability to stay largely out of the limelight. This DVD is so well done, I'm converted. I just loved the vignettes at the beginning, the patience in which Scorcese waits for the set list is commendable and offers some wry humor right from the start. See other reviews for the set list, I agree with their comments regarding the musical and technical brillance of this DVD. Of course I purchased it for a gift for my mom, who loves the Rolling Stones. You'll love this DVD even if you're a 'remote' Stones fan like I am.Movie Review: Still getting better!
Summary: 5 Stars
As you would expect, Martin Scorsese has made a great film of a Stones concert. The cinematography is very good, the featurettes are interesting as are the old recorded interviews (although older Stones fans, like me, will have seen them all before in decades past). However, what makes this film outstanding is the sound quality; it's so much better than in other DVDs of their concerts that I own. You can crank it up if you want to rock out but you can also pick out subtle remarks between the players, as when Keith gives Buddy Guy his guitar at the end of the show-stopping 'Champagne and Reefer'. The song selection illustrates the talents of all band members and guest artists and there should be something in here for everyone. Thoroughly recommended.