Gimme Shelter (1970)
Starts off as a great concert film showing the Stones in their prime, then slowly turns into something deeper and more disturbing -- a portrait of the point where the frustrations bubbling underneath the peace-and-love movement began to manifest themselves as violence and confusion. Fantastic music, riveting drama, interesting meta-filmic commentary (the movie shows Mick and Co. watching the movie being edited together while the filmmakers question them on, essentially, their social irresponsibility in putting together this disaster); the title song rolls over the final images, which is as it should be. ("Gimme Shelter", for my money, is one of the most haunting rock-and-roll songs ever recorded.)
Grade: A
Starts off as a great concert film showing the Stones in their prime, then slowly turns into something deeper and more disturbing -- a portrait of the point where the frustrations bubbling underneath the peace-and-love movement began to manifest themselves as violence and confusion. Fantastic music, riveting drama, interesting meta-filmic commentary (the movie shows Mick and Co. watching the movie being edited together while the filmmakers question them on, essentially, their social irresponsibility in putting together this disaster); the title song rolls over the final images, which is as it should be. ("Gimme Shelter", for my money, is one of the most haunting rock-and-roll songs ever recorded.)
Grade: A
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