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Gimme Shelter: Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review

23 December 2009 8:09 AM, PST | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

Though it may be beyond the grasp of today's musically inclined youth, there actually was a time when the Rolling Stones lived up to their moniker of "the World's Greatest Rock n' Roll Band." Wanting to capture the Stones at the height of their powers, filmmakers Charlotte Zwerin and Albert and David Maysles set out to chronicle their 1969 U.S. tour. And while we get a bit of the Madison Square Garden performance (memorialized on the live album "Get Your Ya Ya's Out") and some behind the scenes mixing (most of which became their next studio album "Sticky Fingers"), the eventual documentary Gimme Shelter (1970) concentrates on the band as they gear up for, perform at and reflect on Altamont.

The "Altamont Speedway Free Festival" took place on December 6th, 1969, a mere four months after Woodstock. Featuring a comparable amount of hippies and counter culture attitude to complement performances from Jefferson Airplane, »

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'War Birds' to Blow the Lid Off of ... Underground Aerial Combat?

7 December 2009 3:32 PM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I love reading a plot description for an upcoming project that just stops me dead in my tracks. Here I am scanning casually through my RSS feeds when I come across this bombshell of a plot for War Birds at The Hollywood Reporter:

"Birds follows an Air Force veteran-turned-reckless airshow re-enactment pilot as he gets pulled into the underground culture of illegal, real-life aerial combat. Shooting is scheduled for the summer in Michigan using all real airplanes and aerial sequences, including authentic P-51 Mustangs, P-38 Lightnings, F4U Corsairs and a B-17 Flying Fortress as well as modern military helicopters and jets."

Yes, you read that correctly. War Birds, which will be directed by a one Michael Chait, is like Top Gun meets The Fast and the Furious. Or Fighting meets Stealth. Or Step up to the Streets 2 meets Hell's Angels. I don't know, there are too many variables there »

- Peter Hall

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The Rolling Stones at Altamont, 40 years later: What ended there, and also what began

6 December 2009 10:04 AM, PST | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »

Forty years ago today, the 1960s came to an unholy end. As evening approached on Dec. 6, 1969, the Rolling Stones, who were then just reaching the height of their street-fighting Satanic majesty, took the stage at Altamont, a hastily organized, all-day-long free rock concert held on the outskirts of San Francisco -- an event planned, in essence, to be a kind of Woodstock west. Infamously, though, this was no happy-mud orgy of peace, love, and good vibes. The very fact that the concert was held next to a gritty speedway was a sure sign that no one there was really planning »

- Owen Gleiberman

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Love in Vain

2 December 2009 4:54 AM, PST | Interview Magazine | See recent Interview Magazine news »

f Woodstock was the cathartic high of 60s rock concerts, then Altamont was the bum trip. Criterion's Blu-Ray release of Gimme Shelter, the 1970 documentary about the Rolling Stones show that brought the Summer of Love to a violent end, is a reminder of how delicate and unlikely that hippie miracle dramatized earlier this year in Ang Lee's rosy-cheeked Taking Woodstock really was.

Altamont–which descended into chaos, leaving four spectators dead–represents the dark side of rock the Stones had tapped in to with hits like "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Paint it Black." But it's fair to say Mick & Co. didn't see this one coming. It was a free concert at a desert speedway in Marin County, and the Stones hired the Hell's Angels to handle their security. At first, it seemed like a good move: the 300,000-plus fans, many of them high, were doing all sorts of unpredictable things. »

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Designing for Beautility: Where Beauty Meets Utility

3 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | Fast Company | See recent Fast Company news »

Economics grab all the headlines but beauty is just as important, and even has serious financial ramifications. Beauty does serve a function. Didn't the way that cars used to look--and no longer do--have a big effect on the failure of Detroit? Beauty is more than skin deep. Beauty is powerful. Utility is beautiful and beauty has utility. Let's call it "Beautility" for short.

The Avanti Studebaker, designed by Raymond Loewy (and one of my dad's favorites)

Beauty has different meanings in different cultures and eras--but everybody has some idea of beauty (even the Hell's Angels). Although humans can't agree on specific examples, we do all share a general formula for beauty: It has a very pleasing physical sensual element combined with mental enlightenment. "Aaaahs" and "Ah-has." It's the combination. There is an intellectual component to a beautiful person and an emotional component to a beautiful mathematical proof. The experience of »

- Tucker Viemeister

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Hulk -- What the Hells Angels? It Was a Joke!

26 September 2009 4:11 AM, PDT | TMZ | See recent TMZ news »

You know the Hells Angels are badass when a guy like Hulk Hogan -- who once body slammed 540-pound wrestler Andre the Giant -- is apologizing to them.Hulk is now saying sorry over a prank voice mail he left on a guy named Chase Holfelder's answering machine -- one in which he threatened the kid with the wrath of the Hell's Angels. Hulk left the message on Chase's machine as a favor for a »

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6 articles from 2009

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