The Rolling Stones: 'Gimme Shelter'

[Maurice]

Telegraph.co.uk



GIMME SHELTER is released on DVD by Warner Home Video on September 21.



Mick Brown talks to Albert Maysles:



Even before GIMME SHELTER, Maysles, now 82, had a distinguished reputation as one of the pioneers of the cinema-verite, or "direct documentary", movement that emerged in the late Fifties, characterised by the development of lightweight, hand-held cameras that afforded an unobtrusive, non-interventionist approach to film-making.



With his younger brother and partner, David, Maysles had already made a film about the Beatles' first tour of America in 1964 and intimate portraits of Marlon Brando and Truman Capote....



Watching the footage of Altamont 40 years on, it is apparent how quickly the idyllic dream of Woodstock, a few months earlier, had evaporated. By comparison, Altamont looks like some strange anthropological experiment gone horribly awry....



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...e-Shelter.html

[dpgmel]

Only ever seen short clips from this so really looking forward to viewing it in it's entirity.