Music Documentary
Directed by: Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Stars: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Tina Turner, Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Bob Weir, Mick Taylor, Michael Shrieve
The most provocative work of the Direct Cinema genre. A film with excellent musical content that, at the same time, has a clear message about the end of the liberal 1960s, and about the relativity of its spiritual heritage. Altamont Music Festival and its stars. Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and the headliner–the Rolling Stones! Its their concert where the brutal violence and murder take place. The documentary captures the negative feelings local residents had towards the whole event (which was later renamed Anti-Woodstock), the mismanaged organization and the overwhelming chaos that resulted in four dead audience members, one of them murdered by members of the Hells Angels, who had been hired by The Rolling Stones as security guards. The day when the Love Generation died to the tune of Sympathy for The Devil.
