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Shine A Light

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Film

Shine A Light

Additional information

Year

2008

Size/Type

UK Quad (30" x 40") Double Sided

Country of Origin

British / UK

Condition

Near mint minus; originally rolled (as issued)

Director

Martin Scorsese

Actor/Actress

Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger

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“Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of the wealth and taste, I’ve been around for many a long year, Stole many a man’s soul and faith…”

Award winning film poster design courtesy of BLT Communications. The poster campaign artwork for Martin Scorsese’s 2008 ‘Rolling Stones’ documentary “Shine A Light” is outstanding. Live action black and white imagery of the band is the major feature of  great looking poster. An highly entertaining and engrossing music documentary film for one of the greatest and most influential rock bands of all time. Showing in only a handful of independent and art-house cinemas the advertising campaign was very low key and the UK film poster that accompanied the extremely limited cinema release is truly scarce. This originally rolled (as issued) example displays to excellent effect and certainly looks impressive and represents a fantastic item of original collectable music and movie memorabilia.

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Trivia: As Keith Richards sings “You Got the Silver”, he wears a trench-coat with a pirate pin on the collar. This is a gift from working on “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007).”

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Film Description

Shine A Light Movie Poster

“Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in “Shine A Light,” a look at The Rolling Stones.” Scorcese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006. Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary band.”

Let me be clear: this film is not a documentary. Anybody expecting a Rolling Stones‘ documentary will be sorely disappointed. Anybody looking for some fun and cracking live concert footage won’t be.

Shine A Light starts off in a wonderful style. Scorsese basically plays a cameo throughout the film, but he is only on screen at the start for what is a magnificent prologue to the concert. Martin Scorsese, living up to his neurotic reputation, spends weeks trying to pin down the set list and trying to prepare for his direction. Planning? Well that’s just not rock and roll. He gets the list seconds before the concert starts.

And then the rest of the film is spent basking in the glory of the Stones. Their sheer energy and charisma on stage bursts onto the screen with blasts of music and light. The group is made up of four great characters and they are a sheer force of nature. It is extraordinary that Mick Jagger can still do this kind of performance at his age, though that is not as extraordinary as the fact that Keith Richards is still alive. In fact, Richards has some of the best moments in the film. The music is brilliant and the visuals used in the concert magnificent to look at.

Scorsese’s use of archive footage is intelligent. It gives a flavour of the people in the band and the social change of which they were a part. But it doesn’t give any kind of detailed account of the band’s career. As a result the film is trapped between being a record of a concert and a documentary. The concert itself has a couple of problems chief amongst them being that it does drag at times, mainly because you’d rather be in the crowd.

Fans of the Stones will enjoy this, especially if they’re unlikely to see the band in the flesh. Great art this isn’t but, for those who want a bit of entertainment and think they will enjoy this, trust me, it’s a lot of fun.

 

 

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