Sting: Bring On the Night
by Michael Apted
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Actor: Branford Marsalis, Darryl Jones, Kenny Kirkland, Miles A. Copeland III, Omar HakimDirector: Michael Apted
Brand: Uni
Cinematographer: Ralf D. Bode
Writer: Michael Apted
Editor: Melvin Shapiro
Producer: Andrew Meyer
Producer: David Manson
Producer: Gil Frieson
Producer: Robert K. Lambert
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-29
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: A&M
Product features:
- 1. Bring On The Night / When The World Is Running Down 2. News Conference 3. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free 4. Low Life 5. Fortress Around Your Heart 6. Love Is The Seventh Wave 7. The Flintstones 8. Another Day 9. Shadows In The Rain 10. Consider Me Gone 11. Driven To Tears 12. The Big Risk 13. Opening Night 14. Shadows In The Rain 15. Fortress Around Your Heart 16.
Movie Reviews of Sting: Bring On the Night
Movie Review: This is where it all started
Summary: 5 Stars
It is about time that this ground-breaking video finally made it to DVD, making it even more of an audio and video treasure. I can still remember the first time I saw the special on A & E almost 20 years ago. I had lost track of Sting and his wanderings after he had left the Police, and wasn't quite sure I wanted to find him anyway given the negative publicity (and my own disappointment) surrounding his departure from what is still regarded as one of the best rock groups of all time. Unsuspecting, while lounging on my back porch I flipped through the cable channels and stumbled onto the program as it had just begun. For the next 2 hours I became mesmerized.
The project was an unprecedented undertaking at the time, recording a band not only in live concert but through the whole process from inception to rehearsal to performance. The concept was as risky as it was revolutionary, especially for Sting who had everything to lose by not only gambling on a solo project, but by making this effort so accessible in such a unique manner to the viewing public. In its form and feature, it was also a prototype for what would become "reality" TV, long before there was such a category.
Beginning with location shots of the band in rehearsal at a French castle just outside Paris, we get an impressive portrait of Sting shaping a new musical ensemble: he lays out the rudimentary form of his original compositions, then brings them to life, gently but confidently directing his very talented charges, mostly accomplished African-American jazz players, through the complex arrangements, allowing for their contributions along the way. What becomes abundantly obvious, beyond his now-and-again reserve and arrogance, is Sting's finely-tuned sense of artistic expression, complemented by his technical knowledge of the medium. He knows what he wants and how to articulate it. In addition to the picture of music and musicians coming together, there are unpredictable and insightful interviews with Sting and other members of the band spliced strategically into the body of the video. Apted's editing is excellent in these instances and rather spectacular overall. At times he even synthesizes the scenes from the concert performance of a song with those at practice, the two segments pieced together as one without missing a note or beat. We also are provided usually unseen glimpses of the band's manager, Miles Copeland, ensuring that peace reigns among the musicians while securing the preparations and publicity for their debut. We are fortunately not subjected to tantrums, petty arguments or catty exchanges, so typical of today's reality TV content, but we do see banter among the members and several spontaneous moments. The camera also, perhaps dubiously, follows Trudy, Sting's wife, to the hospital where we witness her giving birth to their son Jake. The event actually occurred while this was being made, and it is still part of the footage.
The "Bring On the Night" video culminates in the live concert. Not surprisingly, despite playing unfamiliar music with an unorthodox mix of instrumentalists in front of an SRO French (that's non-English) audience in Paris, Sting brings the house down. The finished songs are both well-polished and exciting as is their performance, which is near flawless. He finishes the evening with an encore of a few selected Police songs, including "Message In a Bottle" which he sings alone on stage - while final credits roll. The show removed any lingering doubts in my mind, low those many years ago, that the lad from Newcastle is indeed a musical genius. Now in this digitized format, it sounds and looks better than ever and is as inspiring as it was two decades before.
Summary of Sting: Bring On the Night
Remastered concert DVD from 1985. Cover, disc and insert are in mint condition. Region 1 (USA & CANADA)Similar DVD Movies
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