GERMANY: Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unveil new documentary at Berlin Film Festival

Record ID: 470600

  • Title: GERMANY: Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unveil new documentary at Berlin Film Festival
  • Date: 13th February 2008
  • Summary: FANS WITH PHOTOS OF ROLLING STONERS VARIOUS OF SCORSESE GIVING AUTOGRAPHS MICK JAGGER ARRIVES FANS KEITH RICHARDS WAVES AND GOES IN JAGGER SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS ARRIVAL OF CHARLIE WATTS VARIOUS OF JAGGER WAVING AND SINGING AUTOGRAPHS
  • Embargoed: 28th February 2008 12:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA414IQHKOZYDN491PTXA629HRU
  • Story Text: Martin Scorsese brings the magic of the Rolling Stones to the big screen with "Shine a Light", a two-hour film of the veteran British rockers strutting their stuff at a packed New York venue.
    The documentary, filmed with 17 cameras at two concerts at the intimate Beacon Theater in 2006, opens the annual Berlin Film Festival on Thursday (February 7), a fitting beginning to an 11-day cinematic marathon that is rich in rock'n'roll.
    Madonna is expected in Berlin for her directorial debut, while movies about singer Patti Smith, British indie band Gorillaz and a heavy metal group from Baghdad also feature.
    Scorsese has used Rolling Stones music from the start of his career, prompting Jagger to joke that "Shine a Light" was the only film of his not to feature the song "Gimme Shelter".
    "For me the music was certainly part of my life throughout the 60s," Scorsese told reporters at a news conference.
    "For me the sound of the movie, the chords, the vocals, the entire feel of the music inspired me greatly," added the director, flanked by the four band members.
    "It became the basis for most of the work I've done in my movies going from 'Mean Streets' on to 'Raging Bull' all the way over to 'Casino' and 'The Departed'."
    Scorsese adds short clips of black-and-white archive footage between songs showing a young Jagger or Richards fielding often inane and repetitive questions from reporters around the world.
    Scorsese's cameras are located in the crowd and behind the stage, giving a 360 degree view of the performance from both the fans' and the band's point of view.
    "Martin's got such a crew, such a team," guitarist Keith Richards said at the news conference. "There were many cameras, but we didn't even see them, we didn't even know they were there, and that was the important thing to me. You get on stage and you are just going to do a show.
    But if you know you are shooting a movie or are aware very much that you are shooting a movie, then things change in the show, so you don't really capture some things, you know. And what Marty did brilliantly I think is take that out of the equation. As far as I am concerned I played three nights at the Beacon and Marty happened to capture it on film, it was that, you know, it was a beautiful way to do it.
    Jagger performs on stage with Jack White of The White Stripes, Christina Aguilera and a mesmerising Buddy Guy.
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