Neil Young / Jonathan Demme concert film

Why yikes? Jonathan Demme directed my favorite concert film of all time, Neil Young is putting out great material, the trailer looks good... I can't wait.

― False rings true@!, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

yikes is more for poor html, i'd guess.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Looks nice, though I do hope the actual movie doesn't have any of that "It was a dream come true"-super crap in it.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

the Jarmusch one sucked. Low expectations for this one.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:59 (twenty years ago)

i would have been excited about this in 1978

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:08 (twenty years ago)

Demme is a lame director who has done particularly lame work with Young, the album is beyond lame, the movie will be a suckfest, the title sez it all

― mr. briggs, Thursday, 12 January 2006 00:36 (twenty years ago)

trofl

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 12 January 2006 01:33 (twenty years ago)

That they're apparently using the same template as "Stop Making Sense" concerns me most. Country-rock songs about the prairie don't fit with A/V SPECTACULAR the way that Talking Heads songs do.

― erklie, Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:22 (twenty years ago)

emmylous harris looks very very very scary these days

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

scarier than Mr. and Mrs. Young? I don't THINK so.

― mr. briggs, Friday, 13 January 2006 04:34 (twenty years ago)

It's a rather sweet and lovely document, fittingly doesn't try to be Stop Making Sense. Emmylou Harris sounds fine and looks better.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 March 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Emmylou looks like over-stretched rubber.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

some of us are into that!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

She and Neil just come across as so ... trustworthy.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young Journeys opened here last night. I skipped the first two Demme films, saw Year of the Horse, will see this one (with modest expectations). Very big cast listed on IMDB: Neil Young.

― clemenza, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:18 (thirteen years ago)

Neil Young as himself
Wooden Indian as himself

― tylerw, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:20 (thirteen years ago)

Massey Hall will be played by Massey Hall. A rose is a rose is a rose--but you better not pick it.

― clemenza, Saturday, 14 July 2012 16:22 (thirteen years ago)

Saw Journeys tonight. (Same friend I saw the '78 Maple Leaf Gardens with--instead of getting high beforehand, we went to Starbucks.) I liked all the old stuff, especially what he does with "After the Gold Rush." Half the show is Le Noise material, which I was hearing for the first time since La Nuit Blanche a couple of summers ago. Can't say I liked much of that..."Sign of Love"'s pretty good; "Hitchhiker" seemed less impressive; "Love and War" made me cringe. I really liked Neil in the car, drolly talking about taking nickel dares as a kid and stuff like that--early on, you get the idea this will make up half the film, in the end it's much less. What's really missing: a tour through Toronto. Demme does something weird with the camera during "Down by the River" and "Hitchhiker" that's really funny, but accidentally so, I think: Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Neil.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:33 (thirteen years ago)

I decided since it's half Le Noise I would entirely skip it.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:43 (thirteen years ago)

I'd still recommend it--I think most Neil fans will like the car footage plus the handful of old songs. (Impressive how full a sound he gets on "Down by the River" and "Ohio" all by himself.) I hope some day we get a straight documentary rich with archival footage. Something like No Direction Home, covering up to Rust Never Sleeps. (Part of PBS's "Canadian Masters" series, I guess.)

― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:55 (thirteen years ago)

I might watch it on dvd. I really dislike Le Noise.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 01:57 (thirteen years ago)

xp Actually, there's this, which isn't bad, but not particularly illuminating.

― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:24 (thirteen years ago)

Wow, had no idea...I don't suppose anyone has this, do they? I just looked around online for a few minutes and got nowhere.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:39 (thirteen years ago)