There's no director more qualified to shoot a Rolling Stones concert film than Martin Scorsese, who has used the band's music to galvanizing effect on many occasions, from Robert De Niro's swaggering entrance to "Jumpin' Jack Flash" in Mean Streets to his "Gimme Shelter" intro to The Departed. And yet the question lingers: Why now? The band is at least a quarter-century past its prime, so how urgent and relevant could its five-billionth rendition of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" possibly be? And a high-ticket benefit event for the Clinton Foundation at New York's Beacon theater ain't exactly Altamont, is it? The chances of something spontaneous happening in such cloistered environs are about as likely as someone flubbing their lines at a Cats matinee. Of course, Scorsese knows all these limitations up front, so he's turned Shine A Light into a buoyant, light-hearted encore of a movie, paying.
- 4/3/2008
- by Scott Tobias
- avclub.com
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