Lets Spend The Night Together (VHS) [1983] Hal Ashby

http://bayimg.com/MAoMpAaCb Let's Spend the Night Together (1983) Also Known As (AKA) Rolling Stones [France] Rolling Stones: 'Epistrofi '82' [Greece] Rolling Stones: Time Is on Our Side Australia (video box title) The Rolling Stones [Finland] The Rolling Stones - Time Is on Our Side [Denmark] Time Is on Our Side: The Rolling Stones [Italy] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084242/ Let's Spend the Night Together is a live concert film, documenting The Rolling Stones' 1981 North American Tour. It was directed by Hal Ashby, and released to cinemas in 1982, then subsequently released on VHS. It is currently available on DVD in Japan, Australia, and some countries in Europe. Mick Jagger ... Himself Keith Richards ... Himself Charlie Watts ... Himself Bill Wyman ... Himself Ron Wood ... Himself Ian Stewart ... Himself Ian McLagan ... Himself Ernie Watts ... Himself Bobby Keys ... Himself While the definitive film about The Rolling Stones is still waiting to be made, there have been many worthwhile attempts along the way to capture the band's mystique by various filmmakers such as the 1966 documentary Charlie Is My Darling by Peter Whitehead, Robert Frank's banned 1972 exposé C*cksucker Blues, and Gimme Shelter (1970), Albert and David Maysles' dark, compelling chronicle of the disastrous 1969 Altamont concert as the Stones looked on while their Hell's Angels security force beat up festival attendees, knifing one of them to death. Let's Spend the Night Together (1983), on the other hand, was a planned collaboration between Mick Jagger and director Hal Ashby, whose intent was to capture the live experience of the Stones in concert on an audio and visual level not previously attempted in a feature film about the band. The idea for the film emerged during a meeting between Jagger and Ashby at a Rolling Stones concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Jagger had some very specific ideas about capturing the excitement of their upcoming tour in support of the album Tattoo You and he wanted Ashby's recommendations for possible directors to helm it. Ashby volunteered his own services, which Jagger happily agreed to, and for the director it was a chance to do something different and fun. It was also a welcome distraction from the frustrations of studio interference he was currently experiencing on his production of Lookin' to Get Out (1982), that indirectly resulted in Ashby being denied the opportunity to direct Tootsie (1982) on which he had already spent considerable pre-production time. Less than a month after Jagger proposed the as-yet-untitled concert film (Time Is on Our Side was an early title suggestion), Ashby began filming the Rolling Stones in concert, first at the Brendan Byrne Arena in Meadowlands, New Jersey. The best footage, however, was captured at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona where Ashby ended up directing from a gurney while hooked up to an IV (there are conflicting reports of whether Ashby had almost overdosed from partying too hard or if he had suffered a minor heart attack). For this particular concert Ashby had a twenty camera set-up, one of them placed in a helicopter to capture aerial shots, and his cinematographer team was headed by Caleb Deschanel, Gerald Feil and Garrett Brown, who produced a visually stunning look for the film. Jagger remarked during the editing process that, There was this really beautiful backdrop of desert and mountains and we had 70,000 people...We filmed it so that you see me singing in front of lots of bright colors, like a painting really, but a helicopter pulls the camera back and you see I'm actually performing in front of a gigantic guitar. I just saw a rough cut of the scene, and to tell you the truth I hadn't thought it would film as spectacular as it does. As Jagger was the main initiator of the project, it's no surprise that he also emerges as the real star of Let's Spend the Night Together; the other members of the band were less enthusiastic about the presence of the filmmakers - Keith Richards got so annoyed at one point that he almost started a fistfight with one of the cinematographers - but all of the musicians are captured in both intimate and live concert moments which effectively convey why this band is one of the most enduring and popular of all rock bands. Among the musical highlights are Jagger dancing on stage with a female chorus that includes his girlfriend Jerry Hall during Honky Tonk Women, a raucous Jumpin' Jack Flash with Mick being lifted in the air by a hydraulic cherry picker and a high energy version of Under My Thumb which effectively uses some of the aforementioned helicopter aerial shots. Marketing expert Mike Kaplan, a trusted colleague of Ashby, compared Let's Spend the Night Together to Woodstock (1970) and added that, If The Last Waltz [1978] grossed $5 million, and it wasn't a very good movie, we could gross at least that. Yet, despite finding a European distributor for the film when a rough cut of it was screened at the Cannes film festival, Ashby's concert film was a harder sell in America. The director also wanted to reedit the film for its domestic release - it was released in Germany, Switzerland and Austria under the title Rocks Off! - and distribute as a big screen audio/visual event in the style of an IMAX presentation. I want to do a road show kind of thing, Ashby explained, because the film has got a lot of energy in it. Every time I screen it people come up to me afterwards and say, 'My God!' so I want to take a 70mm, six-channel stereo print and put it up where people can have some fun. I want to screen it where people can get up and dance (from Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson). Eventually a distribution deal was worked out with Embassy Pictures and a few selected theatres actually exhibited a 70mm print with six-track sound of Let's Spend the Night Together but the film was mostly seen in a 35mm version during its brief release. Critical response was mostly positive with Janet Maslin of The New York Times calling it probably the handsomest rock-and-roll movie ever made, and Variety labeling it a solid, technically sophisticated concert pic. Some critics were disappointed such as Roger Ebert who wrote that Let's Spend the Night Together is essentially a concert film - a film recording an ideal Rolling Stones concert, put together out of footage shot at several outdoor and indoor Stones concerts. If that's what you want, enjoy this movie. I wanted more. Some also cited the concert movie's less effective moments such as the Rolling Stones' live performance of Time Is on Our Side as archival footage of the Rolling Stones in younger days and turbulent sixties newsreel clips play over the music in a self-conscious stylistic device that detracts from the concert experience on screen. Still, as a lavish cinematic record of the Stones' Tattoo You tour, the movie succeeds beyond expectation and should please fans of the band. Jagger, in particular, was quite happy with the results, calling it, a much bigger, more accurate, interesting view of the concert than we'd had before in any film. Unfortunately, Let's Spend the Night Together was not a box office success and concert films have consistently proven to be unlikely box office hits with the occasional rare exception like Woodstock. Nevertheless, Ashby's rare venture into the concert film genre remains an intriguing detour during his beleaguered career in the early eighties. Track listing Under My Thumb - Tempe, Arizona, 13 December 1981 (outdoor stadium show) Let's Spend the Night Together - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Shattered - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Neighbours - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Black Limousine - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Twenty Flight Rock - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Let Me Go - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Time Is on My Side - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Beast of Burden - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Waiting on a Friend - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Going to a Go-Go - East Rutherford, New Jersey, 6 November 1981 (indoor arena show) You Can't Always Get What You Want - East Rutherford, 6 November 1981 Little T&A - East Rutherford, 5 November 1981 (indoor arena show) Tumbling Dice - East Rutherford, 5 November 1981 She's So Cold - East Ruitherford, 6 November 1981 All Down the Line - East Rutherford, 5 November 1981 Hang Fire - East Rutherford, 5 November 1981 Miss You - East Rutherford, 6 November 1981 Let It Bleed - East Rutherford, 5 November 1981 Start Me Up - East Rutherford, 5 November 1981 Honky Tonk Women - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Brown Sugar - East Rutherford, 5 November 1981 Jumpin' Jack Flash - Tempe, 13 December 1981 Satisfaction - East Rutherford, 6 November 1981

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sartre7 (2010-11-21)

Audio in one channel only. You can mirror the good channel in an audio editor and remux it but it's barely worth it. Better off looking for the DVD.