SummaryMartin Scorsese's concert documentary Shine a Light will show the world the Rolling Stones as they've never been seen before. Filming at the famed Beacon Theatre in New York City in fall 2006, Scorsese assembled a legendary team of cinematographers to capture the raw energy of the legendary band. (Paramount)
Directed By:Martin Scorsese
Shine a Light
Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
User score
Generally Favorable
7.8
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
83% Positive
30 Reviews
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17% Mixed
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100
May be the most intimate documentary ever made about a live rock 'n' roll concert. Certainly it has the best coverage of the performances onstage.
90
As the director of the documentary Shine a Light, Martin Scorsese is a besotted rock ’n’ roll fan who wholeheartedly embraces its mythology.
88
This you-are-there spellbinder is a master director shining his light on the best rock band on the planet.
80
Vibrant and engaging documentary.
75
Ultimately, Shine a Light is illuminating indeed, even fascinating, but not in the way Scorsese intended. What he has created, inadvertently, is an invaluable documentation of semi-fossilized Stones – musicologists may like it, sociologists should love it and, some distant day, anthropologists will treasure it.
63
Despite Scorsese's efforts to pump up some drama - the director, with his signature glasses and Groucho brows, gets huffy about not receiving a set list - drama is sorely lacking. This is just a concert film.
50
The film does not stand up to the current crop of music/concert films like "U2 3D," which brilliantly uses 3-D to show the Irish band in concert so as to encapsulate its relationship to its fans, each other and their own music, and "CSNY: Deja Vu," which hones in on the political connection Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have to their music.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.8
79% Positive
15 Ratings
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16% Mixed
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Production Company:
- Paramount Vantage
- Concert Productions International
- Shangri-La Entertainment
- Grand Entertainment (Row)
- Shine A Light
Release Date:Apr 4, 2008
Duration:2 h 2 m
Rating:PG-13
Awards
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 2 Nominations
Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA
• 1 Nomination
St. Louis Film Critics Association, US
• 1 Nomination
