GIMME SHELTER (Charlotte Zwerin, Albert & David Maysles, 1970, 91')
Schedule
Tue Oct 22 2024 at 07:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Hypnos Theatre | Malmö, SN
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In 1969 pioneering documentarians Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles and David Maysles went to chronicle the last few weeks of The Rolling Stones US tour, shooting a bunch of fantastic concert footage. But most of all this documentary became famous for capturing the infamous Altamont Free concert. If the Woodstock festival represents the high water mark of the Peace and Love movement, Altamont, just four months later, has come to represent the end of the Hippie era. With members of the Hell's Angles hired as security, armed with pool cues and motorcycle chains and drunk out of their minds(getting paid in beer), and audience members high on methamphetamine getting more and more erratic and antagonistic, things turned ugly. What was to be the Woodstock of the West ended in chaos, injuries, accidential deaths and murder.
"The documentary filmmakers, the Maysles brothers, have recorded the events prior to, during and after the festival with a chilling sense of drama."
Margaret Hinxman, Daily Telegraph
"It's knowing about the killing, and waiting for it to happen on the screen that gives the film its energy and thrust."
Howard Smith, Village Voice
"'Gimme Shelter' is not a concert film but a statement of a sea change, of the group way back when and of an end to its and the public's innocence and to the counterculture that once flourished."
Donald J. Levit, ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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