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Shine a Light |  | Director: Martin Scorsese
Actor: Rolling Stones
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 097363518747
UPC: 097363518747
EAN: 0097363518747
ASIN: B0014DZ2XC
Theatrical Release Date: April 4, 2008
Release Date: July 29, 2008
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Product Description
Features performances by the Rolling Stones from the band's "A bigger bang" tour with special guests Christina Aguilera, Jack White, and Buddy Guy. In
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Martin Scorsese leaps into the madness of the Rolling Stones' organization in Shine a Light, barely controlling (in a most entertaining way) a documentary that culminates in the Stones' best concert on film. The movie's highly entertaining, pre-performance prologue finds a frazzled Scorsese trying to get a clue about the band's plans for a very special New York City date in 2006, a benefit hosted by Bill and Hillary Clinton. While Mick Jagger quibbles over concepts for the stage's set and peruses lists of possible songs to include in the show, Scorsese tries to figure out how to shoot something for which he has few production details. Everything falls into place eventually, and after an extraordinary meet-and-greet scene in which Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, and Charlie Watts catch up with the Clintons and sweetly introduce themselves to Hillary's mom, the Stones launch into a set that leans less heavily than usual on their greatest hits canon. Longtime fans are sure to appreciate the wealth of generally-untapped material from Let It Bleed ("You Got the Silver," "Live With Me"), Exile On Main Street ("All Down the Line," "Loving Cup"), and Some Girls ("Faraway Eyes," "Just My Imagination"). Jack White, Christina Aguilera, and Buddy Guy are on hand for memorable collaborations, but the Stones all alone are truly on fire in the relatively intimate setting of a small theater. Among the highlights is a sexy and even thrilling call-and-response between Jagger and ace backup singer Lisa Fischer on "She Was Hot," Richards' gracious and expansive solo on "Connection," and Jagger's witty take on "Some Girls" (which manages to skip over the controversial verse about "black girls"). Throughout the show, Scorsese and an army of camera operators cover the action from every conceivable angle, which results not so much in another hyperkinetic concert film but rather in the kind of graceful, flattering portrayal of a great band that the director mastered with The Last Waltz. --Tom Keogh
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Take A Walk On The Wild Side- Part Two July 18, 2010
Alfred Johnson (boston, ma)
Just when you thought it was safe to move on from the various Rolling Stone reviews in this space here comes another one, this time though through the directorial efforts of Martin Scorsese and the filming of the Stones 2005 international "A Bigger Bang" concert tour (and I believe as of today their last one). Needless to say the day is long past when anyone, at least anyone that I know, will dispute the title of "the world's greatest rock band" that has been attached to this group. In the old days an argument could be made, and rightfully so, that Jim Morrison and the Doors on their good nights secured that title but that was then. Off a viewing of this production it is east to see why the Stones carry that title, without hype, even today.
Director Scorsese has made a very good decision to go light on the filler (early Stones interviews, press conferences, etc.) and the technical aspects of putting on such a tour (and the compounded problem of filming it). The center of the documentary is the Stones' concert from Chicago (a Bill Clinton charity benefit concert) complete with all the classics, "Sympathy For The Devil", "Satisfaction", "Brown Sugar", Girl With The Faraway Eyes", etc. Clearly these sixty-something guys still can rock and one best keep that AARP membership offer at arms length. But, to finish, here is the "skinny", one must always remember that the Stones started, heart and soul, as a white blues cover band (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and so on) and so the scene that steals this production is when old Chicago bluesman, Buddy Guy, comes on to fire up "Champagne and Reefer". Wow! That was worth the price of admission.
Don't Worry, Sports Fans .... July 18, 2010
Giordano Bruno (Wherever I am, I am.)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
... I'm not gonna review the music of the Rolling Stones. I'll bet you already have your own opinion about that, and so do I, but I don't feel like sharing it. No, I'm not a regular at rock concerts. No, I wasn't at Altamont, even though I was in California at the time. Yes, I heard a lot of the Stones in the 1960s. But for now, it's the film that I'm pondering over, the film as a narrative ....
A narrative of what, though? In 2006, The Rolling Stones performed a stage concert In New York City, a benefit event 'promoted' by former President Bill Clinton and attended by his wife Hillary, her mother, and former first daughter Chelsea, as well as dozens of their prominent guests. The film narrates some of the frenzied and incoherent preparations for the event, and then captures the concert in cinematographic razzle-dazzle. The movement of the cameras - large potent Hollywood beasts that stalk through the theater - is as much part of the narrative as the on-stage intros of the celebs. Director Martin Scorsese makes himself a central character in the narrative. A 'protagonist', if you will, but certainly not a heroic figure. Instead he shows himself as an anxious nerd, a comic worrier, as "star-struck" face-to-face with the Stones as Bill Clinton. That's close to the core of the narrative: two extremely powerful people, a hugely successful Hollywood magnate and a former Pres of the USofA, flummoxed by the charisma of four ravaged old coots. You'd have to scour the Bowery to find four equally ugly, wasted, raunchy dudes as Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Woods & Charlie Watts in their sixties, but there they are, prancing and howling with the same manic energy as ever. Clinton's participation, by the way, tickles my sense of the profound hypocrisy of American culture today, with the educated, wealthy, and powerful accepting the obvious drug "abuse" of rock stars like Jagger and ranting heads like Rush Limbaugh, while sending thousands of the uncharismatic poor to penitentiaries. And I'm not pointing the finger just at Clinton; such social class discrimination is endemic.
The meta-question of Martin Scorsese's narrative is subtly expressed in the short clips of archival interviews of Jagger and Richards from the 1960s and 1970s. How can it be? How is it possible that these four hyper-volatile personalities have stuck together for almost half a century? Sustained each other? Survived, persisted, outlasted? The earliest interviewers were already asking: "How long? How long will you keep singing? Can you imagine yourself still singing/plucking/strutting at age 60?" Frankly, given their life choices, it's amazing that all four of them are still alive. There's a tale, not mentioned in this film, that after Altamont, a plot was hatched by members of the Hells' Angels motorcycle gang to assassinate Jagger. But The Rolling Stones are unkillable. Unstoppable. They can't even self-destruct.
 doesnt live up to the hype July 14, 2010
G. Harper (Georgia)
The Stones playing a small venue..sounds great....filmed and directed by Martin S!....how can you miss??!
First, its not a nice casual live setting with a night of the Rolling Stones that has a nice, close up type feel. Instead it's a small venue thats packed and all you see is hands up in the air and the band with such a small space to play, treating it still like its a stadium. Going from B+W to color and back is BS.
It's ok to watch because it is the Stones, but I'd take any day over this "Live at the Max" or even the 1982 film "Lets Spend the Night Together".
 The Stones are the Best July 1, 2010
maxx09
I liked the concert it was in a really nice venue. great sound and color.
prime candidate for a rock'n'roll time capsule May 5, 2010
Roland E. Zwick (Valencia, Ca USA)
***1/2
If the astonishing longevity of The Rolling Stones has taught us anything, it's that rock'n'roll is no longer just a young man's game. In fact, after nearly a half a century of rocking out, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood - all now in their 60s - offer proof positive that youth is indeed just a state of mind.
More than twenty years after his seminal rock film "The Last Waltz," director Martin Scorsese turns his cameras on the Stones, recording a concert they performed at the Beacon Theatre in 2006 (as part of their "A Bigger Bang Tour") to benefit The Clinton Foundation (Bill and Hillary are both present at the event and are seen mingling with the fellows in the opening moments of the film). I'd say that at least 70 percent of the film's running time is devoted to the concert itself, with the rest made up of backstage stuff (mainly early on) and footage from interviews the band members gave throughout their career when reporters were (ironically, as it turns out) always predicting the band's demise within a few years - snippets obviously designed to contrast the boys` younger selves with what they look like today. The most humorously prescient moment comes when Dick Cavett asks Jagger, in 1972, if he can envision himself still doing this when he's 60. (Jagger's answer, by the way, is yes).
With camerawork that is fluid without calling undue attention to itself, "Shine a Light" is essentially a straight-forward concert film featuring some of the group's most instantly recognizable standards ("Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Shattered," "Start Me Up," "As Tears Go By," "Brown Sugar," "Satisfaction," etc.) as well as songs that are less well known - a feast for diehard fans of the band, to be sure, though probably less gratifying for those who aren't. For despite the presence of Scorsese in the director`s chair, "Shine a Light" is not really all that remarkable as a piece of filmmaking, but the sight of a bunch of astoundingly agile sexagenarians strutting their stuff on stage as if they were still in their twenties does give hope and encouragement to the rest of us fighting against our own fast-approaching golden years. It's obvious that these boys - clearly the true survivors of the rock era - are one day going to be taken off the stage feet first, going out doing what they love best. And, if nothing else, the film gets these rock'n'roll legends on the record for future generations to enjoy.
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