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I was at both shows filmed for this engagement in 2006 and it was awesome. Even managed to weasel my way close to the stage a few times to almost get Keith Richards’ cigarette ash to fall on me. Buddy Guy was so fucking electric I thought the entire building would explode.
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Forget for a second that there is a dancing, prancing Mick Jagger corpse muppet frolicking across the stage for the duration of this film. Forget for a moment that Ron Wood looks like a severely malnourished hobbit. Try not to focus on the fact that 71 year old Buddy Guy looks 15 years younger than anyone in the 2008 version of the Stones…and has the 1,000 yard stare of a man who would rip out your eyeballs and skull fuck you. Close your eyes for a spell and just listen to the goddamn sonic wonderland that is this film. Screw that, now open ‘em and revel in the way Marty shoots a friggin concert film. It’s miraculous, it’s spontaneous, it’s…
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If we exclude Martin Scorsese’s apprentice-era works, I’d say Cape Fear is my least favorite of his fictional feature films. Shine a Light is, by far, the weakest of his documentary offerings, which is really disappointing given his obvious love for the group. (How many great scenes of his have been buoyed by a well-selected Stones cut? Too many to count!) Here, we get a concert by a way-past-their-prime version of The Rolling Stones (one of my favorite bands, by the way) getting fêted by an all-star cast of head-scratching guest performers and well-wishers, including Buddy Guy, Jack White, Christina Aguilera, and Bill and Hillary Clinton (?!?). At best, the Stones here sound like a Stones cover band, which is…
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wtf that weird character actor that plays Jack Sparrow’s dad sure can frickin wail
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IIan M 8 月 24, 2026
Shout-out to the dude filming Mick Jagger on a shitty Samsung keypad-phone while Martin Scorsese films the same thing in 70mm IMAX.
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This one’s doubly fascinating for me, cause: • It’s got what is almost certainly the most overqualified camera team ever assembled for a single project. Robert Richardson, Albert Maysles, Emmanuel Lubezki, Ellen Kuras, Robert Elswit, John Toll, Stuart Dryburgh, Andrew Lesnie, and Declan Quinn, among others, are all employed as camera operators here. It is incredibly fun to play “spot-the-DOP”. The result is, moment-for-moment, one of the most opulently effortless displays of technical mastery I’ve ever seen in a documentary. It’s like the cinematographic equivalent of one of those all-star tribute shows where guitar greats gather onstage to stroll through a familiar number. The result is quite fun and technically thrilling in a way that manages, like those tribute shows,…
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There are subjects and individuals that a documentarian only has to place a camera in front of them and move it in a way that we get to see what’s going on and the subject or individuals do the rest, pulling you into the story or film or whatever. A clear example of this is this concert film by the one and only legendary Rock and Roll band The Rolling Stones. Scorsese’s trademark sweeping camera moves and editing along with Mick Jagger’s brilliant and infectious moves are enough to get you hooked up right from the beginning as Jagger burst some of those moves and swag that puts him above many of his counterparts and definitely above everyone else today…
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Before I became obsessed by movies my first love was always music. From an early age I was introduced to some incredible bands that have stood the test of time. It wasn’t until the likes of Simon Cowell and his army of cunts started to dominate the charts that I literally gave up on new music. There have been the odd exception, but for me nowadays they don’t come along often enough and I find myself listening to classics like The Rolling Stones. This documentary/gig from 2006 at the Beacon Theater in New York City is culled from two nights at the venue and is directed by one of their biggest fans, a certain Martin Scorsese. As a forty-something I’ve…
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Ddankwit 8 月 24, 2026
ultimate petulant rockstar troll move: getting martin scorsese to film your concert then not playing gimme shelter
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“Marty needs to know the set-list so he can plan his shots!” (cut to an entire movie of the most generic concert footage imaginable) Bill Clinton sits in the audience, clapping his hands to the music, a giant grin on his face.
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The Last Waltz, director Martin Scorsese’s record of the Band’s 1976 “farewell concert,” is widely regarded as one of the greatest concert films ever made. Shine A Light, Scorsese’s record of two performances The Rolling Stones gave at NYC’s Beacon Theatre in 2006, isn’t in the same league. For one thing, there’s simply less at stake when capturing a legacy band do what they always do than when an influential group ends their time together near the height of their importance. But this is still a pretty entertaining movie, thanks to Scorsese’s playful approach to the project and especially singer Mick Jagger’s energetic performance. At first, the film focuses on the challenges Scorsese faced in the weeks leading up to…
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This big-budget concert film captures the boomer generation at its least charming. “We’ve still got it, huh??” No. No you don’t. Very clever of Marty to make sure a bunch of young girls were in the mosh pit up front, I’m sure they really love 105-year-old Mick. The songs are catchy, but there are a lot of places you can hear them without them being introduced by fucking Bill Clinton. The movie itself is very well made. Of course it is. Why wouldn’t it be? Actually it’s too well made. It would be nice to see at least one shot of these elderly husks that isn’t perfectly lit and framed. The part where Mick and Keith duet with and embrace…
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Marty’s earnest delivery of “No, we can’t burn Mick Jagger.” when being told about safety hazards…. I love him so much. This is wonderful – feels weirdly underseen.
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GGunny B 7 月 25, 2026
I learned 3 things watching this 1) Harry Styles does a spot on Jagger impression 2) having only listened to the popular songs Stones playlist, I understand why Keith Richards section is the bathroom break time 3) I’m good on ever hearing the Stones in person. This was 18 years ago and they seemed washed them. I don’t need to know what it’s like now.
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I prefer the music of the Stones to The Band (although I’m relatively unfamiliar with both and a fan of neither), but Shine a Light still proves to be a more underwhelming concert film than another of Scorsese’s that already I wasn’t super hot about. Whereas the documentarian aspects of The Last Waltz (e.g. the interviews) were what kept me slightly invested in spite of my dislike of the music, most of this film’s focus beyond the concert itself is…
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Charlie Watts so good
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Buen concierto, buen documental y buen BTS
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“We can’t burn Mick Jagger” I watched this on DVD and the amount of nostalgia I felt when that “you wouldn’t steal a car, you wouldn’t steal a handbag” video played reminded me of when I was a little kid and I used to watch so many DVDs. As always, the Stones were amazing and so was Scorsese. To be honest my favourite parts of the film was seeing him crash out at the cameramen and Mick Jagger.
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El miracle de que aquesta penya segueixi gaudint després d’una carrera de 40 anys (ara 60) retratat per un director que segueix gaudint després d’una carrera de 40 anys (ara 60). El carisma de Mick Jagger i Keith Richards és estratosfèric
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Et dire que c’était le dernier rail de coke de Keith…
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We cannot burn Mick Jagger!
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🚨 “Shine a Light” (EEUU, 2008) no es solo un documental de un concierto; es el encuentro de dos tornados: la dirección obsesiva del gigante Martin Scorsese y los incombustibles explosivos de The Rolling Stones. Fue filmado en el Beacon Theatre de Nueva York, y es una clase magistral de cómo capturar el rock and roll en cámara. A diferencia de otros documentales de conciertos que se pierden en entrevistas, giras interminables y cortes en edición infinitos que no dejan…
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You don’t even have to watch the movie to enjoy it, you can just listen to it and it will still be peak
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Ddanotello 6 月 25, 2026
Charlie Watts and Martin Scorsese going toe to toe to see who is the funniest grumpy old man
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A nauseating vanity project! A concert film so polished, constructed and rehearsed that it feels completely artificial and devoid of life. Its visual style evokes Alvin and the Chipmunks and Guitar Hero
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The Rolling Stones and Martin Scorsese… a pretty great match if you ask me.
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Incredible sound and direction love that they played a bunch of deep cuts
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Es un concierto muy frenético, aunque dos horas es demasiado.
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Cool, but nothing more. I would’ve liked more backstage scenes, rehearsals, interviews, it’s basically just a standard Stones show. What I liked the most was the solo performance by Jack Sparrow’s dad.
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Two of my favourite things, Scorsese and the Stones. Worth the price of admission alone for the Keith Richard’s rendition of You’ve got the Silver.
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Le seul film de Scorsese sans Gimme Shelter
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Inevitably feels a bit slight coming from the guy who directed The Last Waltz, but still a lot of fun. It’s exactly what it says on the box, plus a Clintons jump scare. The archival interviews are essentially that joke from Almost Famous repeated several times. Highlights for me were “Champagne & Reefer” with Buddy Guy, “You Got the Silver,” and “Brown Sugar.” I saw the Stones last year in Chicago, 19 years after this was shot, and they’re basically doing…
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It’s one thing to wonder if a documentary on an artist you have little interest in could be of intrigue, but a concert film is surely the genre that lends itself to the most self-selecting audience. I’m watching this now as it’s one of the only Scorsese pictures I’ve never seen. It’s well shot and edited of course, but Scorsese isn’t setting out to gain The Rolling Stones a bunch of new fans. The film barely contains anything beyond a…
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It didn’t scratch any particular itch, but it did make me want to take a deeper dive into The Rolling Stones.Mission accomplished
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Still great
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Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light is a genuinely enjoyable concert film with a surplus of energy and a comprehensive catalogue that spans The Rolling Stones’ illustrious career. However, I can’t rate it higher than three stars for one simple reason: The Rolling Stones at this stage of their career are simply not The Rolling Stones at their peak. That’s not a controversial observation, and the film doesn’t pretend otherwise, but it does mean that the ceiling on my enjoyment was…
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Un concierto de una de las mejores bandas de rock de la historia grabado por uno de los mejores directores de cine de la historia. The Rolling Stones y Martin Scorsese: tándem ganador.
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I cannot watch the Stones perform and not smile ever since my mom once told me she liked the way Mick Jagger “shakes his little butt.” I miss you, Mom!
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It’s nice to see the Stones giving it hell even though they’re all about 900 years old. But don’t love how the band is shot, the room seems sterile and over-lit, designed for the swooping cameras. Richards’ mangles his guitar solo on Sympathy for the Devil and not in a good way. It’s repetitive.
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I refuse to believe that anyone has ever went to see the Stones and said “fuck, I hope we get a “She Was Hot” tonight”. Undercover-heads, stand up!
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Nnikiciki 5 月 7, 2026
profa knows ball
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Would genuinely sell my soul to see Buddy Guy and Mick Jagger sing champagne and reefer live
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4.1 Christina Aguilera just screaming up there my god.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Watchlist 2026 – Round 5… 5 of 35 –> Watch a documentary 👀👀🎬📽️🎞️🎞️🎞️🎞️👀👀 I gave Marty’s concert doc about The Band a pretty low score since I had very little familiarity with the group and was bored. But I watched it knowing it was an impediment to getting through Marty’s filmography. Only to realize dude’s made SO many docs with a decent number being concert videos. So I figured I’d give a watch to one of…
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It’s the Stones and Scorsese so I’m naturally inclined to be a fan, but that might’ve been the worst rendition of Shine a Light I’ve ever heard.
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𓂃𓂃𝓘𝓿𝓪 4 月 17, 2026
Just watched a shit ton of Martin Scorsese’s documentaries because I’m having an allergic reaction, so I’m fucking rotting in my room and I’m bored out of my mind. Most of them, if I’m being honest, I watched on 2x speed because I can’t stand documentaries. But I actually really enjoyed every second of this one.
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Aantoinedoinel1 4 月 16, 2026
scorsese’s roaming camera suits jagger’s movements well also, a 62 year old Jagger could still get it, and perhaps today’s 82 year old too, according to some of my friends…
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This starts with bill clinton saying he’s bringing 10-11 year olds and scorsese saying “we can’t light mick jager on fire” The duality of the 60yo democrat
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Band goat gw
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Other than the Rolling Stones being old, they performed incredibly – but not only that Scorsese really knows how to film a concert. Knowing the songs and what camera angles will work best to make a live performance truly cinematic. Seeing my favorite band work with one of my favorite directors was truly something. really kept everything interesting and focused on parts that needed to be focused on.
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My first concert movie and one I feel a bit conflicted on. I like the Stones, and it’s immensely impressive to see how much energy and life they were able to bring to this when in their late 50s and early 60s. I also discovered a number of new Stones songs to add to my playlist which was really nice as well. The camerawork here matches the energy of the performance and it’s very impressive even as someone with no…
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I will watch Champagne and Reefer a million more times.
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rolling stones en directo mola
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Great Concert film.
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What Happens at Night Prep* Scorsese #25 of 36 There’s honestly not much to say about Shine a Light that couldn’t be said of most other concert docs exactly like it. Sure, it’s fun to see Mick Jagger trouncing around the stage and Keith Richards gifting Buddy Guy one of his guitars in real time, but there’s little else to write home about here. The most fascinating part of the film is its opening, where director Martin Scorsese – famously…
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Jjudas111 3 月 22, 2026
Really nice but not what I expected
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Stones and Scorsese? Instant 5 stars!
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An interesting mix of approaches to a rockumentary/concert film.
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If you love Scorsese movies more than Stones music, you’ll be frustrated that there isn’t more of the productions footage that begins the movie. There’s a battle going on between Scorsese and the Stones that the movie only hints at, but that could be a whole doc onto itself. But even as it stays largely glued to the stage, there’s a lot to love here. In Schickel’s book, Scorsese talks about the demanding, beautiful energy this film required of the…
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Ssagejanjigian 3 月 7, 2026
Watched while tripping. The cracks in my ceiling were dancing along as mick jagger shook his little ass in front of Hillary Clinton’s mom Afterthoughts: beautiful display of men making love to each other via guitar. Many an orgasm.
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even my favorite movies of all time still have things I get mad at,but I did not get mad at anything in this. it may just be the perfect movie. I did not even pay attention to most of the movie,I was just rocking out to the soundtrack,and the cinematography was beautiful as well
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this kind of sucked? i have no way to prove it, but this feels like an event epstein would have attended
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Jagger could beat me in a 5k
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“Shine a Light” (EEUU, 2008) no es solo un documental de un concierto; es el encuentro de dos tornados: la dirección obsesiva del gigante Martin Scorsese y los incombustibles explosivos de The Rolling Stones. Fue filmado en el Beacon Theatre de Nueva York, y es una clase magistral de cómo capturar el rock and roll en cámara. A diferencia de otros documentales de conciertos que se pierden en entrevistas, giras interminables y cortes en edición infinitos que no dejan una…
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I love the Stones, and I love Marty, but oddly enough,I didn’t love this film. The set list was kinda meh. The crowd was kinda uppity, like it didn’t even feel like they were real fans. Unnecessary special musical guests kept popping up, and it’s like why? You’re watching the fucking Stones man, they don’t need special guests. In short I really wanted something more gritty. Grittier songs, grittier shots, a grittier narrative that really could have driven home that bond that Scorsese and the Stones share throughout his movies and their music.
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man i would do almost anything to go back to when i saw them in ‘24 “we cannot burn mick jagger” -martin scorsese
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Pretty cool concert film by Scorsese. Although no one knows why Christina Aguilera had to be there.
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The Stones and Marty are like a hand and a glove, like a pot and a lid, like a cigarette and a lighter, like a car and fuel, like Keith Richards and a Telecaster… ❤️ ALSO NOTICE HOW THERE ARE NO CELLPHONES LETS MAKE CONCERTS GREAT AGAIN!
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JJaron Lamer 2 月 3, 2026
I love movies… you know, looking at em
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The one time Marty Scorsese DOESN’T have “Gimmie Shelter” playing just happens to be a Rolling Stones concert film. You can’t make this shit up… smh. Anyway, this was a solid performance from an accomplished band, and I’d expect nothing less. There’s nothing here that’ll “wow” you as it doesn’t have the best set list, but it’s just good, solid rock n’ roll from geriatrics in tight jeans. I’m not sure why it needed Marty’s involvement beyond them being buddies and getting a free gig, but hey, good for him!
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“It’s good to see you all…it’s good to see anybody!”
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i could watch keith richards play forever honestly
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Catch on fire? We can’t do that. We cannot burn Mick – we cannot burn Mick Jagger… We want the affect, but, we cannot burn him. I love the Rolling Stones, but them not performing my 3 favorite songs (Paint It Black, Beast of Burden, and Wild Horses… although the last one can be heard during the end credits) knocked this down a whole star rating
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Watched w the rents..sneaky funny
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Really disappointed to find out this wasn’t 2 hours of Martin Scorsese running around trying to find the setlist for the show. It’s still a fun time and a very well made concert film. The stones are the same as they ever were, the songs are bookended by these archival interviews spliced in between, with a good majority of which are interviewers asking “how much longer will the stones last?” which becomes funnier and funnier as the energetic, but largely…
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Killer show, some rarer tracks played. Jack White on Loving Cup, great. Jagger is all over the place, the man is filled with energy.
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This film is great as you’d expect, although the opening making of portion is the most engaging. Half way through I couldn’t help but think what a ridiculous person Mike Jagger is, has proper grammar school boy pretending to be a rock star vibes… good for him. Seems to work.
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“Catch on fire? We can’t do that. We cannot burn Mick. We cannot burn Mick Jagger… We want the affect, but we cannot burn him.” At 47, I don’t have even half as much energy as these fellows do (they were in their mid-sixties at time of filming), which is insane to me. The best part is the struggle Marty had to go through to nail the group down to a setlist, which doesn’t get finalized until the first fucking note of the song is played. Even at 82 (in 2026 at the time of this review), Mick & Keith still can’t get no satisfaction.
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So I think one thing that a great concert film usually captures is this sense that somehow they managed to film the best concert in the universe. That the live event you are witnessing, just so happened to get filmed, and something that would be spoken of only in legends is now viewable after the fact. The Last Waltz especially captures that sense with Scorsese making it really feel like The Band is one of the most vital bands ever…
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A pure adrenaline rush — I’ve seen seven Rolling Stones concerts live, and this is the one that comes closest to that experience. Who better than Scorsese could have directed it?
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Though it starts off a bit slowly with oddly edited clips of the set up for the concert and the film does sadly have a song that gets interrupted with an interview clip, this filmed concert was crazy. Directed by none other than Martin Scorsese, this concert utilizes its shots and sound to emphasize the power and emotion of this performance by the iconic band The Rolling Stones. There is so much I want to say about this but I’m…
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I give out four stars to Rolling Stones concert movies like candy, but unfortunately I must judge this one according to a higher standard due to it being a Martin Scorsese movie, and the opening segment – in which Scorsese himself features prominently, performatively stressing over Jagger’s last-minute setlist-making – feels very contrived to me. also, whilst the setlist in question is a hardcore fan’s wet dream, I simply don’t think this show is as strong musically as the others…
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No Gimme Shelter? Christina Aguilera tho… and that ending.
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Martin Scorsese n’a pas son pareil pour filmer un concert. The Last Waltz était déjà très réussi, il réapplique la même formule aux Rolling Stones et ça marche encore du tonnerre, même pour les non-fans. Les images d’archives sont savamment placées, le spectateur a l’impression d’être sur scène tant la caméra virevolte (autant que Mick Jagger en très grande forme) et Scorsese se permet même un splendide dernier plan.
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It’s good to see you all, you know.
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My parents wouldn’t let me see The Departed in theatres so when this came out I remember being sooo excited that I was getting to see a Martin Scorsese movie IN THEATRES. Funny to feel nostalgic for a movie that’s function is pretty much just nostalgia. More Clintons than I remembered.
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These bastards stopped aging after the year 2000
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Scorsese loves the Stones and I love the Stones so I’ll not have a bad word to say about this.
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“It would be good to have a camera that moves.” -Martin Scorsese
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DDavid González López 11 月 30, 2025
No pido perdón.
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C’est bien mais c’est juste un grand réal qui édite un enregistrement de concert tout en ajoutant des images d’archives. Tout est dit, c’est assez long sur deux heures et sur certaines musiques on se met à détester voir les autres vieillir, mais bon grand merci à ce grand groupe pour les classiques intemporels (she’s a rainbow dans mes grosses veines mais ELLE EST OU).
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He is one of the most sought-after and best musicians in his field, has played on four Miles Davis albums, toured with Steps Ahead, and been in the bands of Sting and Peter Gabriel: Darryl Jones is an absolute authority on bass in rock and jazz. In “Shine a Light”, Jones stands at the back right of the stage, next to the three horn players, where the stage lighting becomes diffuse. Sixteen cameras are pointed at the stage, providing better…
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Martin Scorsese has carved a parallel career to being one of the greatest feature film directors to ever do it, as one of the foremost documentarians of popular music. His collaboration with the act that has most influenced his primary career, the Rolling Stones, is a more modest affair than his other forays. Unlike Living in the Material World or No Direction Home, it’s not an attempt at any kind of comprehensive portrait of an artist or a moment in their…
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Nothing prepares you for Bill Clinton kicking this thing off.
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Los Rolling en concierto filmados por Scorsese y su equipo. Simplemente mola.
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funny af they couldn’t even tell Marty the fucjinh setlist lmao but still a good one !
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SSimion_Si 11 月 17, 2025
A decent enough collaboration between zee Rolling Stones and today’s birthday boy, Martin Scorsese! 🎉 The billing of this as a documentary feels misleading as it is for the majority of it a concert movie. My main gripe with this is that there’s a sort of superficial vibe to the show in that it feels the group, well more Mick Jagger than the others, catered towards the cameras instead of the audience, which kind of makes sense for the occasion,…
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Più passavano i minuti e più mi convincevo che Jagger, Richards e Scorsese nelle loro vite non potevano fare altro che questo. Mick riuscirebbe a rendere irrilevante perfino la presenza sul palco di dieci elefanti messi insieme. Keith, che cazzo di aura c’hai? Lunga vita a questi Dei
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This is what heaven feels like
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Special guests: Marty Sorceress, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jack White, Buddy Guy, and Christina Aguilera I keep thinking there’s a fine line between looking ridiculous and be the coolest motherfucker on planet Earth. Jagger has so much confidence he pulls it off. The Stones are the standard bearers for what a rock ‘n roll band is. These guys were in their mid-60s when this concert took place, and Keith and Ronnie shredded, Mick conducted and was in a frenzy of music-induced ecstasy, while Steve pounded the drums! This is fucking rock ‘n roll! What a show!
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This feels a lot like what Scorsese succeeded in doing with The Last Waltz but everything is just less interesting or vital from the direction to the actual performances to the guest musicians to even like the circumstances of the concert. What even are the circumstances. Also you see Bill and Hillary Clinton in the first like 7 minutes. The direction is fairly uninspired and kind of confusing in that it begins with around 10 minutes of frantically getting the…
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De nuevo, Scorsese + Rolling Stones, qué puede salir mal. Antes de comenzar a verlo pensaba que iba a estar más enfocado en ser un documental, pero salvando el principio y algunos momentos entre canciones, básicamente es un concierto (muy bien grabado, que se note el director) en el icónico Teatro Beacon. El show en sí está bastante bien, tocan algunos de sus clásicos, y destacando a Mick Jagger, que es el rey del escenario sin duda (con mención especial…
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OK concert film. I like the original recordings more than these live renditions.
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Como no me entusiasman los Rolling Stones, pues los detallitos excéntricos de Martín Scorsese me saben a poco
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PPat_K 10 月 12, 2025
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keith richards may just be the coolest guy ever
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Martin Scorsese clearly has a way he likes to do concert films, as the format of songs sprinkled with talking-head bits reminds me of The Last Waltz. Most of the interview segments are archive footage, frequently focusing on interviewers asking questions, way back in the day, about how long the Rolling Stones would keep going. It underlines the whole, “Wow, look at these guys still going,” angle, which is extra funny now that it’s almost twenty years later and they…
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The Last Waltz, director Martin Scorsese’s record of the Band’s 1976 “farewell concert,” is widely regarded as one of the greatest concert films ever made. Shine A Light, Scorsese’s record of two performances The Rolling Stones gave at NYC’s Beacon Theatre in 2006, isn’t in the same league. For one thing, there’s simply less at stake when capturing a legacy band do what they always do than when an influential group ends their time together near the height of their…
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I’ve never been a huge Stones fan, but this was a lot of fun and very gorgeously shot.
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This was so great – the number of legends in this movie was absurd: jagger, Richards, watts, Ronnie wood, chuck leavell, Marty, buddy guy. Some of the scenes at the beginning felt like scenes out of The Studio because they were so funny. I couldn’t tell if they were staged or genuine. Scorsese’s reaction when Jagger tells him he can’t have any moving cameras was absolutely priceless. And Scorsese freaking out about getting the setlist on time was so funny…
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Hharmony 8 月 31, 2025
appearances by jack white and xtina?? can’t believe i haven’t seen this before
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HHogan 8 月 31, 2025
I gave Rocco a liter sized Baja Blast an hour into this and he looked at me with such abject horror
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Scorsese Directs the Hell out of this concert film! Watched on the big screen, LOUD! A rare experience.
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Marty did not bring enough film to capture the entirety of The Last Waltz which is why there are so many (wonderful) in-studio cutaways for performances like “The Weight” Really glad he learned from that experience and documented hundreds of angles of what it was like to be alive in 2008 (Razr’s everywhere, old men shouting ‘now THIS is music!’) It was such a blast eating birthday cake in a movie theater and watching my pal drunkenly attempt his tight five before this started.
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SSydney 8 月 31, 2025
80% mick jagger as a wacky arm inflatable tube man 20% Scorsese being stressed out Thank you, Rocco, for showing us this Motorola Razr studded documentary. Happy birthday, friend!
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beautiful perfect. best looking concert movie there is. Gotta love Martyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Deep cuts too
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Que queres hacer si los viejos estos hacen todo bien, no te lucis jamás si están ellos, tinchi
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RRio 8 月 21, 2025
It’s no The Last Waltz, that’s for sure. I’m glad Mick Jagger is still having fun at 1,000 years old. Being For The Benefit Of The Clinton Foundation
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Ever since I fell for the YouTube premium trap I have been WATCHING music videos any chance I can get. The YouTube algorithm has fed me a lot of Rolling Stones videos, specifically the rock and roll circus performances which are amazing. Taj Mahal and the dirty Mac are slaying (the yer blues performance is great even tho I have beef with both Lennon and Clapton… but damn they could rock 🤪). Anywayssss back to the stones. The circus performances…
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Top parce que honnêtement c’est chouette de voir l’incarnation de la relation Stones-Scorsese et drôle de voir à quel point il était fan d’eux. Top parce que les insertions d’archives sont intelligentes et super agréables à découvrir. Moins top parce que Bill Clinton, parce que c’est à New York avec un public chiant et que la même démarche dans un grand stade aurait certainement rendu le projet plus épique.
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a fucking grandfather directed a fucking grandfather
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VVic 8 月 11, 2025
J’ai trouvé le dvd chez moi c’était sympa
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Even 40 years after Gimme Shelter, Stones are still the greatest. Much different documentary, 90% just a well-shot concert, but a hell of a performance Jack White cameo bonus points
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What a wonderful movie. Man it is hard to believe these old men can jam the way they can. And the musical guest like Buddy Guy make this a true treat.
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If you love the stones you’ll love this plain and simple. I remember seeing this with my dad in imax and it was so awesome. So many great little interviews and stories, I have no idea how Keith Richard’s is still alive. Also how badass is it that Martin Scorsese directed this ?!
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LLordBurzum 8 月 4, 2025
Academy Award® winning filmmaker, Martin Scorsese and the world’s greatest rock n’ roll band unite to bring audiences the years most extraordinary feature film event, Shine A Light.; ; Shine A Light will show the world the Rolling Stones as they’ve never been seen before. Filmed at the Beacon Theatre, New Yourk City in 2006, Scorsese assembled a legendary team of cinematographers to capture the raw energy of the legendary band.
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KKlau🎀 8 月 2, 2025
And now dudes are linin’ up ‘cause they hear we got swagger But we kick ‘em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger
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Unpopular personal opinion … The Stones are massively over-rated (but still pretty good). This is no Last Waltz.
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EEduard 7 月 26, 2025
Scorsesse revela els Rollings
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2024 Director watch 7 of 12
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Could The Rolling Stones or Scorsese have looked any more uncool than they do by embracing Bill Clinton?
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Shine!
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EEntertainment Weekly Archives 5 月 9, 2008
Headline: The Rolling Stones’ ”Shine a Light” — Columnist Diablo Cody talks about Martin Scorsese’s documentary I’ve been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. Yeah, I do have a few au courant records on my iPod?tracks by Babyshambles and the Raconteurs and other talented anemia patients?but the play count is typically stalled around four. (Meanwhile, “Chiquitita” by ABBA is nearing triple digits.) I love “She Bangs” and Lester…
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By the early ’80s, I was finally bored with the Rolling Stones. (I think those coy falsetto croons on ”Emotional Rescue” did me in.) They were — and on some level always would be — the greatest rock & roll band in the world, but aside from ”Start Me Up,” it was getting hard to pretend that the new songs could match the old ones. On stage, Mick Jagger was limber, but he no longer possessed the danger of a rock…
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55/100 [written for Las Vegas Weekly] No guitar player in rock history has amassed a larger arsenal of instantly recognizable guitar licks than Keith Richards. “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” “Start Me Up,” “Brown Sugar”—every one identifiable in five notes or less. And yet I somehow spent much of Shine a Light, the Rolling Stones’ latest concert film, asking myself “Wait—what song is this?” Each riff sounds faintly distorted and off-tempo, almost hoarse, as if decades of…
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NNot Revista Cinética 2 月 1, 2008
Festival de Berlim 2008 – Dia 1: Hoje é dia de rock, por João Cândido Zacharias
- Synopsis
- Martin Scorsese’s electrifying concert documentary captures The Rolling Stones live at New York’s Beacon Theatre during their A Bigger Bang tour. Filmed over two nights in 2006 with an all-star team of cinematographers, the film combines dynamic performances with archival footage and rare glimpses behind the scenes, offering a vibrant portrait of the band’s enduring energy and legacy.
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Studio
- Shangri-La Entertainment, Concert Productions International, Paramount Vantage
- Country
- Canada, USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 122 mins
- Germany07 Feb 2008
- USA04 Apr 2008
- Germany04 Apr 2008
- France16 Apr 2008
- Ireland11 Apr 2008
- Japan05 Dec 2008
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