Directed by: Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tina Turner
Time: 91 minutes
This documentary film
chronicles the 1969 tour of the United States by The Rolling Stones, which
culminated in the now infamous Nightmare at Altamont, a free concert organized
by The Stones in the San Francisco area, with the Hell’s Angels as security,
that turned deadly for a young man that was stabbed multiple times after taking
out a gun.
In this film, made in the Direct Cinema style, we see footage from the 1969 tour and the events leading up to the Altamont free concert. There is a lot of backstage footage with the Stones and their entourage and then we see a lot from that awful night, including the actual stabbing.
This is a fascinating documentary. Some of the material is grainy and the sound quality is not always optimal, but it is a captivating look at a major event in the history of music and counter-culture.
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