Gimme Shelter

David Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin

 
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  • United States
  • 1970
  • 91 minutes
  • 1.33:1
  • English

SYNOPSIS: 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 were there to immortalize on film the bloody slash that transformed a decade’s dreams into disillusionment.

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Cast

Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
Mick Taylor
Charlie Watts
Bill Wyman

Credits

DirectorDavid Maysles, Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
EditingEllen Giffard, Robert Farren, Joanne Burke and Kent McKinney
Associate producerPorter Bibb
Special helpStanley Goldstein
Assistant film editorsMirra Bank, Susan Steinberg and Janet Lauretano
Filmed byThe Maysles Brothers
CameraPeter Adair, Baird Bryant, Joan Churchill, Ron Dorfman, Robert Elfstrom, Elliott Erwitt, Bob Fiori, Adam Giffard, William Kaplan, Kevin Keating, Stephen Lighthill, George Lucas, Jim Moody, Jack Newman, Pekke Niemela, Robert Primes, Eric Saarinen, Peter Smokler, Paul Ryan, Coulter Watt, Gary Weiss and Bill Yarrus
SoundMichael Becker, John Brumbaugh, Howard Chesley, Pepper Crawford, Stanley Cronquist, Paul Deason, Tom Goodwin, Peter Pilafin, Orly Lindgren, Walter Murch, Art Rochester, David Thompson, Nelson Stoll and Alvin Tokunow

Disc Features

  • New high-definition digital transfer of the uncensored thirtieth-anniversary version (with exclusive Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 surround sound mixes, and DTS-HD Master Audio surround and stereo mixes on the Blu-ray)
  • Audio commentary featuring directors Albert Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin and collaborator Stanley Goldstein
  • Performances by the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden in 1969, including “Oh Carol” and “Prodigal Son," plus backstage outtakes and footage of the band mixing “Little Queenie"
  • Audio excerpts from KSAN Radio’s Altamont wrap-up, recorded December 7, 1969, with introductions by then DJ Stefan Ponek
  • Altamont stills gallery, featuring the work of renowned photographers Bill Owens and Beth Sunflower
  • Original and rerelease theatrical trailers
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by film critic Amy Taubin, music writer Stanley Booth, Jagger’s former assistant Georgia Bergman, music writer Michael Lydon, ex-Oakland Hell’s Angels chapter head Sonny Barger, and film critic Godfrey Cheshire (NOTE: Barger’s piece does not appear on the Blu-ray edition)

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Film Essays

Gimme Shelter:
From Let It Bleed

By Ralph "Sonny" BargerNovember 13, 2000

All the opening bands had finished playing, and it was time for the Stones to come out. The sun was still out and there was plenty of daylight left. The crowd Read more »

Gimme Shelter:
The Decade That Spawned Altamont

By Michael Lydon November 13, 2000

In the fall of 1969, I landed the coolest possible writing gig: touring with the Rolling Stones on assignment from the New York Times (the Times Read more »

The “Demonic Charisma” of Gimme Shelter

By Godfrey CheshireNovember 13, 2000

Gimme Shelter is the film I’ve seen more than any other. I guess you could say I was obsessed with it for a spell. I saw it first during its premiere New Read more »

Gimme Shelter:
The True Adventures of Altamont

By Stanley BoothNovember 13, 2000

The first words we hear are Sam Cutler’s: “Everybody seems to be ready—are we ready?” We were nowhere near ready for what was to come, there at Read more »

Gimme Shelter:
Snapshots from the Road

By Georgia BergmanNovember 13, 2000

By the end of the summer of 1969, my life with the Rolling Stones had taken on a fairy-tale quality. The Stones were the Lost Boys and I was Wendy. True Read more »

Gimme Shelter: Rock-and-Roll Zapruder

By Amy TaubinNovember 13, 2000

Gimme Shelter documents the last ten days of the Rolling Stones’ 1969 North American tour, from the ecstatic appearances at Madison Square Garden on Thanksgiving Read more »