Gimme Shelter

Name: Gimme Shelter
Genre: History, Thriller, Music, Documentary
Released: December 6, 1970
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 85
Cast: Bill Wyman, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Dick Carter, Keith Richards

1970

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Cinema 5 Distributing | Release Date: December 6, 1970 | GP

Starring: Bill Wyman, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Dick Carter, Keith Richards, Marty Balin, Melvin Belli, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, Sonny Barger, The Rolling Stones

Summary: Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin wereCalled the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, Direct Cinema pioneers David and Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin were there to immortalize on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment.… Expand

Director: Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin and David Maysles

Genre(s): History, Thriller, Music, Documentary

Rating: GP

Runtime: 91 min

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Shawn Levy

Movies don't get any more real than this.

100

Curtis Morgan

Remains a remarkable, almost timeless study.

100

Steve Morse

The impact of this stunning film - and the lessons to be learned from it - are as remarkable as when it was first released 30 years ago.

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Captures that petulant omnisexuality that made many adults consider Jagger a threat to their daughters, sons and household pets alike. Read full review

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Signals the real end of the party, charting a denouement that arcs from blissful ignorance to violence and its ever-present threat to a final retreat. Read full review

Mr. Showbiz Editor

Disturbing, powerful essay on one aspect of the rock and drug culture at the end of the 1960s.

Jonathan Rosenbaum

A strong example of the cinema verite style at work, yet few films of the school show up the crisis of its "noninvolvement" policy more tellingly. Read full review

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