Film Weekly

Film Weekly




Are you taking the Mick?

April 23 - 29, 2008
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The sexagenarian Rolling Stones can still deliver live shows full of energy, drama and humour. Too bad Martin Scorsese's film can't do the same, writes Peter Bradshaw





Scorsese captures the Rolling Stones in all their ageing glory

April 23 - 29, 2008
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The easy access that Sixties pioneers of cinema verite had to rock performers enabled them to make documentaries like Don't Look Back, DA Pennebaker's account of Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of Britain, and Gimme Shelter, the Mayles brothers' film on the 1969 Altamont concert at which Hell's Angels stabbed a man to death while the Rolling Stones were performing Sympathy for the Devil.