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Gimme Shelter

United States

1970

91 Min
English
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DIR David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin

CAST Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman

ED Ellen Giffard, Robert Farren, Joanne Burke, Kent McKinney

SOUND Michael Becker, John Brumbaugh, Howard Chesley, Pepper Crawford, Stanley Cronquist, Paul Deason, Tom Goodwin, Peter Pilafin, Orly Lindgren, Walter Murch, Art Rochester, David Thompson, Nelson Stoll, Alvin Tokunow

Synopsis

Called “the greatest rock film ever made,” this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When 300,000 members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hell’s Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, direct cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin immortalized on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade’s dreams into disillusionment. —The Criterion Collection

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Christine Jane

14Dec09

Forty years later and the Maysles still hold the crown.  
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kimmgomes

29Nov09

Falar o que da minha banda favorita? Ok, bom documentário. Bom o caraleo, ótimo! Mick Jagger como sempre, um frontman.  
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Roger Hayn

25Nov09

Good documentary, though it would have been cooler if the Rolling Stones were replaced by King Crimson.  
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Aaron Dumont

22Nov09

Mick Jagger remains endearingly stoned throughout. 99 percent of the audience remains horrifically, dementedly stoned throughout. Good balance? No, but a great movie.  

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Like a Punch to the Stomach...in a Good Way

By Darren Bradley on December 4, 2009

Would the Hell’s Angels organization be my first pick to provide security and maintain order. Not so much, but as we all know hindsight is 20/20. This movie is a real gem and an easy recommendation…  read review

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By Jack Falvey IV on August 5, 2009

It’s tough to think of this film in terms of entertainment value, because in so doing that would be missing the point. Gimme Shelter is dark, disturbing, off-putting and real. The raw emotion of…  read review

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By Mark Ayala on June 7, 2009

This documentary was designed to scare you straight away from hippies. Suddenly, all the excess of the sixties just came crashing down on this one concert.

Also, great Tina Turner, Flying Burrito…  read review

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By MAO on December 7, 2008

Let’s say somebody knows vaguely what happened at this concert. When the film begins the viewer forgets it’s about something terrible for a while, even as the filmmakers tell the viewer what’s going…  read review

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