Shine A Light (2 Disc Collectors Edition with Bonus Digital Copy) [2006]

See Larger Image	Find Out More Info Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Starring: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Jack White Directed By: Martin Scorsese Average Customer Rating:
Audience Rating: To Be Announced Binding: DVD EAN: 5039036038669 Format: Box set Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2008-11-03 Running Time: 118 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Reviews: 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, Amazon.com
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Ouach, not a documentary... Comment: A concert of the stones with some guitars a bit "wrong" at times. But the drums great as drums can be. The rythm section holds all together leaving some to fool around Jagger always walking funny...Richards not exactly an opera singer! Only one song dissapear behind comments when Richards sings solo, no wonder... But when Buddy guy walks on stage you know who's the boss. It's all worth it then. Would have loved more of the rehearsals,only a few rushes to be seen,pity.. But in the end I am pleased with it. Waiting for a documentary a real one... Customer Rating: Summary: Time Is On Their Side! Comment: Can't believe the ridiculous comments of Mr Reed, clearly not a Stone's fan, I've been a Fan since their second single & first album which I purchased when I was at school and remained a Fan ever since, and no, not a Fanatic just a Fan! I with some other old friends went to the Premiere at one of the chosen Cinema's and we all thought that it was just fantastic, now that I have bought the DVD and played it back in DTS mode with a good high volume I enjoyed it even more. Yes, o.k. Keith's vocal on 'Connection' isn't outstanding but he does do a good job of 'You Got The Silver' and even though Paul Weller's been told for smoking on stage, in the States where the ban came in sooner clearly Keith doesn't give a monkey's, which has always been a Stones trait for all of us who have lived through it. Mick does an excellent job of 'Sympathy For The Devil' and the crowd obviously love it, yes, there are young girls down the front near the band, why is it so hard to believe that young people actually like them, hasn't Ronnie just hitched up with someone young enough to be his daughter! Did we expect to see ancient Stone's fan's down the front with their zimmer frames, well, we're not that old, was Mr Reed present with his torch and personally 'Shine A Light' on every individual to see if any of the audience was over 60, what nonsense, been to a real concert recently have you? As I remember it, the Stones have always dressed how they pleased and I think they still look cool, are they now supposed to buy all their clothes from 'Greenwoods'? As for the comment don't trust a man in a suit, well if you were there Mr Reed you will remember that Brian Epstein put 'The Beatles' in suit's at the beginning, I rest my case. I hope when I reach Jagger's age, and I'm not that far off that I can still have this kind of energy, hat's off to the bloke, well done mate and keep it up. I also noted that Charlie Watt's is still just using a basic drum kit for all these great songs, I just saw Mick Fleetwood recently and he'd need a Transist just for the drum kit alone! Remember from very early on they wrote their own song's and basically invented the 'The Rock Band' in this format, I'll bet many of the 'Bands' around today hope that they will survive this long and still be at the top of the game, this DVD show's off the quality of what will become their legacy to rock music! If you are a lapsed Stone's Fan because of age or whatever, maybe listening to more mellow music in your late years, this is well worth buying to rekindle those days before you started popping the vitamins. As they say, 'If The Knees Are'nt Knocking, Then Keep On Rocking' well done to the Stones & Mr Scorsese, pure excellence! Customer Rating: Summary: Its Only RocknRoll But I Like It Comment: I managed to miss this in the cinema and waited a long time for it to turn up on DVD. Its a great DVD, the sound is good quality, the video shots are superb the atmosphere is electric. Its really nice the way Jagger comes across a bit tongue in cheek and the band don't seem to take it all too seriously. The Stones aren't the best band ever but they have a long list of rock songs which deliver and have delivered constistently since 1960. Its all good fun. Charlie Watts does a great job holding the rest of the band together, literally. And Jagger is still mesmeric to watch. I saw them once in Croydon in the '60's with Brian Jones, only for the sound to be obliterated totally by screaming girls. So it was nice to get to hear them in concert at last. Customer Rating: Summary: SHINE A LIGHT........SUPERB CLASSIC ROCK! Comment: FIRSTLY, MR REED, WHO CARES WHAT YOU THINK? ARE YOU A LEGENDARY ROCK STAR? ARE YOU A KNOWN AUTHORITY OR CRITIC WITHIN THE ROCK AND MOVIE WORLD? WHAT, NO? I AM NOT SURPRISED YOU LIST YOUR ADDRESS AS "SOMEWHERE, UK" AS I IMAGINE MANY STONES FANS WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU AND SHARE THEIR VIEWS. THE BIG QUESTION REMAINS, WHY DID YOU BUY THIS MOVIE IN THE FIRST PLACE? SECONDLY, THE ROLLING STONES, SHINE A LIGHT, A CLASSIC ROCK PERFORMANCE WITH REAL ENTHUSIASM FROM THE BAND. NOT AGELESS, BUT WHO IS? Customer Rating: Summary: Nothing Makes You Look Older Than Trying To Be Younger Than You Actually Are Comment: Scorcese's long running love affair with music - first cemented with The Last Waltz, confirmed with Bowie's best ever role in "After Hours" and the Dylan documentaries- becomes full scale flesh with "Shine A Light". Ostensibly a record of a Rolling Stones concert in New York, "Shine A Light" is an unwitting comedy classic. Guffaws could meet every outrageous archive interview statement from a po-faced Keef Richards, every bizarre haircut from the age style forgot with Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, every craggy faced grimace from the band as they trade out Ancient Rock Riffs, or Jagger as he pouts and preens as a sexagenarian jogs and runs around the stage in an impossibly expensive shirt and becomes a one dimensional walkin' talkin' rock'n'roll cliche. He jumps and preens and pouts, an old man playing a young game, and looks absolutely ridiculous. If this film has a message or a moral, without even meaning it, it is : Nothing Looks Stupider Than Trying To Look Younger Than You Are. On the screen, the lens of fame magnifies and distorts all things to a set of simple caricatures. If I were to describe a rock star with a swagger, or a pair of lips, or sunglasses, or a hat, you could probably guess which rock star I was talking about. For example if I said there was a rock star whose face looks as if it was cut from a cliff face, hair smeared in Vaseline, and drowned in bangles, you'd know there's only one rock star that fits that bill : Keef Richards. Keef swaggers. Keef kneels. Keef self-consciously aware of his mythology, reverts to type, jiggles the way you expect him to, and plays the role of Keef Richards, Aging Rock Star as he passes a guitar pick to yet another pretty girl in the front row. So much so that this film isn't a documentary or a concert film, but an obviously fictionalised version of a Rolling Stones concert : with clearly staged shots and impossible CGI sweeps that clearly break the moment and drag the viewer out of the feeling and into the realm of cinema. But there's more to it than that : aside from some of most efficient and effectively shot concert of all time (aided by a list of cinematographers that are a Who's Who Of The Best Camera Guys In The World that make "Shine A Light" a visual feast of wrinkles), there's a subtle and effective underpinning of the concert footage with deftly chosen archive interview footage - seemingly chosen to evoke laughter at the very stupid bombast of rock - and preceded and book ended by mini documentaries into the stupid world of fame. This is what fame is like, Charlie Watts makes clear with his subtle glances and interaction with the camera : after meeting the Clintons, he is clearly dismayed to then meet an extended selection of Clinton hanger-ons, third cousins twice removed and pose for photos with near enough everyone in the entire city. Jagger manipulates the situation to discuss the minuatae of the setlist, the positioning of the stage, the exact number of seconds he can stand under a spotlight before receiving retina damage : a deeply cynical yet astute businessman whose job is to be a high-speed musical performance athelete. With $437,000,000 riding on the tour this film is culled from, it's clear that Jagger, Richards, Watts, the lesser-seen Skeletor of Ronnie Wood - alongside the rarely seen session bassist, keyboardist, three backup singers, horn section, guest vocalists and a front row of strategically placed young purty girls who don't know the songs - all exist in this moment solely for the purpose of being documented on camera. What is also apparent is that there are no fat, or old, or male Rolling Stones fans. Aside from Bill Clinton. Clinton, incidentally, still wears a suit to rock out. Never trust a man in a suit. Oh yes, the music. None of it under twenty five years old, apart from a couple of cover versions. The ragged (but immaculately mixed) soundtrack - alongside the visuals - sees the band attempting once again to self-mythologise and preserve themselves on film. Fundamentally, this film sees The Stones as much better than they actually are, views them under the uncritical eye of a fan, and sets them more as unquestionable modern heroes. Scorcese has missed the opportunity to present a modern day document that would reveal the true machinations of the band in favour of a glossy wrinkles and all set that takes the modern concert film and films it as one would a multi-camera action sequence, with precision and artistry. "Shine A Light" is an OK film, but you have to be a fan of the band to see any worth in it. Seen as a comic reflection upon the absurdity of fame and the indignity of hard rocking pensioners, it's a sly comment of no small tragedy that perhaps has a greater meaning than ever intended. 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