Maysles Cinema
343 Lenox Ave
212.582.6050
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Gimme Shelter, © Maysles Films Inc. 1970
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Tuesday July 21, 2009 (7pm)
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$7
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Followed by a Q&A with Albert Maysles!
Let it bleed, indeed. Albert and David Maysles' expansive Rolling Stones doc Gimme Shelter — titled after the brooding lead track on the band's legendary 1969 album — captures the buildup to the bloody, era-ending concert at Altamont Speedway. While the rock annals indicate that 18-year-old Meredith Hunter was knifed by a Hell's Angel during the Stones' set (the band illogically hired the Oakland chapter as muscle for this 300,000-person-capacity gig), the Maysles' searching camera shows the fateful act. Tonight, Maysles Cinema screens the wild classic, which, despite its eventual elegiac tone, electrifies with intimate footage of band recording sessions and (obviously) Mick Jagger restlessly strutting and shimmying in his various costumes.
