The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (1970) Criterion Collection

This musical documentary concerns the Rolling Stones and their tragic free concert at Altamont Speedway near San Francisco in early December 1969. The event was all but destroyed by violence that marked the end of the peace and love euphoria of the 1960s. The night began smoothly, with the supercharged Flying Burrito Brothers opening up for the Rolling Stones and performing the truck-driving classic "Six Days on the Road" and Tina Turner giving a sensually charged performance.

But on this particular evening, the Stones made the fateful (and disastrous) decision to hire the Oakland chapter of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang as bodyguards and bouncers. It was a foolhardy, careless choice that turned the night into an unmitigated disaster; halfway through the Stones' act, the Angels killed one black spectator, and injured several others who were present (including Jefferson Airplane's lead singer Marty Balin).

In the film, we watch Mick Jagger – here an ebullient, charismatic performer of bisexual charm – reduced to standing on stage like a frightened child with his finger in his mouth in wake of the violence. Unsurprisingly, the Grateful Dead refused to perform after the violence erupted; the picture ends on a despairing note, with the Stones repeatedly watching a film of the murder.

Celebrated documentarians Albert and David Maysles directed and Haskell Wexler shot the film, with heightened instinct and control; as a result, this film is considered one of the greatest rock documentaries ever made. Stones songs performed include "Brown Sugar," "Under My Thumb," and "Sympathy for the Devil."

STARS………: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman
DIRECTOR……: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
GENRE………: Documentary | Concert
RATING……..: 7.9/10 7,884 votes
METASCORE…..: 80
IMDB link…..: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065780
RUNTIME…….: 1h 32mn
SIZE……….: 4.74GB
VIDEO CODEC…: x264 (High@L4.0)
RESOLUTION….: 1436x1080
ASPECT RATIO..: 1.33:1
BITRATE…….: 5500 Kbps
FRAMERATE…..: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1……..: English DTS 5.1 1500 Kbps
AUDIO2……..: English DTS 2.0 318 Kbps
AUDIO3……..: Commentary with Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, and Stanley Goldstein
SOURCE……..: Untouched Criterion Blu Ray
SUBTITLES…..: ENG, FRE
CHAPTERS……: Yes
ENCODED BY….: Sartre
ENCODE DATE…: 2016-03-17

Blu Ray Extras

1) Backstage with Mick, Ike, and Tina (6mn, 900p) - Backstage at MSG with opening act Ike and Tina Turner.

2) Mixing Little Queenie (7mn, 900p) - The band mixing Little Queenie in the studio at Muscle Shoals studio.

3) Oh Carol (4mn, 900p) - Another performance from the MSG shows.

4) Prodigal Son (3mn, 900p) - Another performance from the MSG shows.

5) Images From Altamont (2mn, 900p) - On display is the work of Bill Owens and Beth Sunflower who present new and familiar images of the concert.

6) Theatrical Trailers (3mn, 900p) - Original short and long theatrical trailers for Gimme Shelter.

7) 1969 KSAN Radio Broadcast (89mn, AAC Audio) - Recorded December 7, 1969, KSAN's four-hour post-Altamont broadcast fielded calls from a range of people who attended the concert and a few who helped organize it. Among those included in the excerpts provided on this Blu-ray disc are Sam Cutler, road/production manager for the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour; Emmet Grogan, a leader in San Francisco's counterculture movement; and Sonny Barger, then head of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels.

8) Essays - Essays about the concert and the film from Sonny Barger, Amy Taubin, Stanley Booth, Georgia Bergman, Michael Lydon, Godfrey Cheshire









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