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Gimme Shelter

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Gimme Shelter (1970)
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When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams in... Read allWhen three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.
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    • Albert Maysles
    • David Maysles
    • Charlotte Zwerin
  • Stars
    • Mick Jagger
    • Keith Richards
    • Mick Taylor
    • Albert Maysles
    • David Maysles
    • Charlotte Zwerin
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    • Mick Jagger
    • Keith Richards
    • Mick Taylor
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    • 94User reviews
    • 65Critic reviews
    • 80Metascore
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    • Trivia
      After viewing footage of the stabbing of Meredith Hunter police identified Alan Passaro, a local Hell's Angel, as the man who did the stabbing, arrested him and charged him with murder. At his trial, however, closer examination of the footage showed that Hunter had pulled a gun before Passaro pulled his knife. Passaro was acquitted on grounds of self-defense.
    • Quotes

      Grace Slick: You don't hassle with anybody in particular. You gotta keep your bodies off each other unless you intend love. People get weird, and you need people like the Angels to keep people in line. But the Angels also - you know, you don't bust people in the head - for nothing. So both sides are fucking up temporarily; let's not keep FUCKING UP!

    • Alternate versions
      Re-released in 1992 with some uncensored dialog and some more brief nudity; this version is rated R.
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      Edited into Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Swing But Were Afraid to Ask (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Jumpin' Jack Flash
      Written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

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    9/10
    A Superb Rockumentary
    In November of 1969 I attended a Rolling Stone Concert at Boston Garden. The Stones were nearing the end of their fabulously successful 69 American tour and they were as good as I had ever heard or seen them. The sellout crowd was mesmerized and surged to the stages edge without violence and just rolled to the music. It was a brief period in rock history when such things were possible. The Peace and Love generation had settled into a groove with just tripping on the music and nothing more. Woodstock had been the prototype. A month after I saw them hypnotize Boston Garden the concert at Altamont put an end to the dream.

    David and Albert Maysles recorded this nightmare in their brilliant documentary Gimme Shelter. The film opens with the Stones, flush with success planning a free concert for fans at Golden Gate Park. The venue is switched to a racetrack in Altamont and things slowly begin to deteriorate from there. The Stones naively hire Hell's Angels ("The Dead said they were cool") for security. When things become unruly the Angels respond harshly. As Jagger sings a man with a gun rushes the stage and is stabbed. The Maysles cameras are in the right place many times. The emphasis is not on Jagger as he and the band perform, instead it is the threatening and tripped out people near him on stage that fascinate.

    The concert itself only takes up a small but gripping portion of the film which follows the Stones on a some of their tour and their reactions from watching the documentary's rough cut. Seldom do rock stars allow themselves to filmed in such compromising a position. The Maysles also capture the logistics side of the concert business with famed lawyer Melvin Belli and tour director Sam Cutler at task.

    In less than half a year the Utopian dream of Woodstock lay in ruin at the Altamont Speedway. The Maysles provide much of the proof in Gimme Shelter.
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    • What Happened to the Hells Angel Who Stabbed the Man at the Altamont Concert?
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      • December 13, 1970 (United Kingdom)
      • United States
      • Criterion (United States)
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      • English
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      • Muscle Shoals, Alabama, USA
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      • Maysles Films
      • Penforta
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    • 1 hour 31 minutes
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