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Glad we got Marty's height cleared up! I had no idea he was so tiny! Just goes to show big things can come in little packages!

Thanks everyone for the awesome photos and reviews....

I was hoping for some live concerts in the US to promote the movie but it doesn't appear to date that is in the works - anyone heard anything?????

I was hoping they would use the publicity generated by this premiere to make such an announcement. They were definitely in the planning stages some months ago, but things appear to have gone somewhat quiet of late. I'd still like to think there'll be shows at some point in 2008.

Thanks arizojp for the great pictures...but is there any way you can get these without the watermark? There's a couple pictures here that are simply incredible.

Keith hasn't looked this good since '99. Love the gray....he is so damn cool.

Which ones you want Justin? I can clean them up for you.

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Which ones you want Justin? I can clean them up for you.

oh, thank you kind sir! I hope it's not too much trouble!

I would love these:

Hey Justin. Here's a few of them.
No trouble at all, it's my pleasure. And I ain't no sir :-P

Oh thats much better!!

This one's for me :-D



I'll take a look at the others when I get more free time if that's ok.

I missed the press conference. Is there a replay of it anywhere? Thanks.

Beautiful!! Thank you, Adi Tyler!

Thank you.....ma'am?

How on earth do you clean them up that well?

Wow, Charlie is smiling in the last pic!!!!!!!



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>> ma'am? <<

bit young to be called ma'am, but yeah :-P

>> How on earth do you clean them up that well? <<

lots of patience and advanced alien techniques.

Thanks Adi!!

Here's my two cents worth .......

The first 15-20 minutes are genuinely hysterical. We were five people sitting together, Beast, sssoul, Piotr, open-g & myself, and between us all we did a LOT of laughing. So much in fact, that we invariably missed various bits of dialogue because we were still sniggering from the previous something or other and couldn't hear the next absolute gem. It was all about Scorcese's side of things, worrying about this & that (nearly everything in fact); the fact that he'd done this elaborate stage design to make the Beacon look all nice and pretty - and there were the Stones looking at a small scale model of it and going' "looks like a f***ing dolls house to me", the fact that despite his best efforts he couldn't get a setlist out of them until what seemed like literally minutes before they hit the stage, the fact that the lighting guy said to him that if he flooded Mick with light from this really low slung lighting rig for something like more than 18 seconds at a time - the heat generated would cause Mick to spontaneously combust !! His reaction to being told this was priceless, the look on his face is one thing, but then he says something like "well we can't incinerate Mick Jagger, that wouldn't be good at all". It's just full of absolute peaches like that, those first 15-20 mins really are a laugh a minute. Hilarious. There's also a few clips of them rehearsing (can't recall what it was they were doing now - sorry !!), them meeting Bill & Hilary and Hilary's mum Dorothy. Keith absolutely surpasses himself by sneaking up behind (I think it was Mick) talking to Bill and shouts "hey Clinton ... I'm BUSHED". He also pulls some fantastic facial expressions whilst Bill is droning on about something or other to Mick, the kind of "'ere we go, the prima donna & the slimy politician talkin' bollocks" look. If looks could kill, one particular one would've done.

I sent the setlist to Gazza late last night and it's a few pages back on this thread, so won't bother repeating it here.

The cinematography is awesome. This is "close up", I mean REAL close up. My only criticism is that Mick is over-represented, it would've been nice to see a more proportionate distribution, that is to say more of Keith, but particularly of Ronnie & Charlie. Having said that, the quality is something else. Once the show starts (they open with JJF), it's actually a movie of "the concert". Spliced in here and there intermittently are selective cuts from various interviews and documentaries over the years that for the most part, "fans" would've all seen before. There were possibly one or two exceptions, but generally - not much new there. Maybe not "new", but very cleverly woven into the fabric of the film nevertheless, just in the right spots, not too little, not too much, not too short, not too long.

In terms of the musicianship on offer, for me there are several absolute highlights. Champagne & Reefer is simply to die for, the musicanship is outrageous, but the song is SO hugely complimented by the truly awesome cinematography - that it scales new heights. Second to that I'd have to put either Some Girls or As Tears Go By. Again, absolutely brilliant musicanship, but the way it's filmed and the way that filming captures all Mick's facial expressions as he's delivering those comical lines - genius. Also captured is that well "documented and talked about" moment (in Far Away Eyes) when the Glimmers "share a mic" for supposedly the first time in God knows how long, as well as Keith (a) rushing up to another mic on a stand to sing backing vocals on the chorus and (b) arriving at the mic late and missing a bit of it, and (c) then being unable to complete it anyway because he bursts out laughing !! Some Girls will make you laugh and smile, but As Tears Go By ... that will tug at your heartstrings and bring tears to your eyes. I'm not ashamed to admit that I got a bit emotional during that song, and when it ended and I looked to my right and my left ... I noticed I'd not been the only one !! Enough said ?? Otherwise, for a sheer "shitkicking Rolling Stones song" with screaming guitars (can't remember what the cinematography was like because the guitars were so fantastic ........ !!) - I'd pick She Was Hot.

I read a couple of UK paper reviews (Times & Telegraph) on the way home, I'd agree with what was said in one or the other ... and that is that although once the first 15-20 minutes is over, it is essentially a film of "a concert", but taking those first 15-20 minutes and the bits and pieces of old footage he weaves in together - you come away from this film feeling that they've revealed some of their own individual characters. That's no small achievement, all credit to Scorcese for accomplishing that I think.

Finally, just to dispel any rumours: there were no refs to Bill or Mick T or Brian. It's not a documentary about the Rolling Stones, it's simply a film of a Stones concert in the fall of 2006 within which there's references here and there to how they've looked/what they've said/what the world has thought of THEM over the past four and a bit decades.

Fans will love it. When it comes out on DVD, fans will be in "pause/rewind" heaven. As for me, I anticipate it taking me AT LEAST 2 hours to get through the first 15-20 minutes - there's so much crammed in there that I could watch AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN ......... !!

Non-fans (in other words just good old "vaguely interested" parties) will quite probably be blown away and think to themselves "f*** me THESE old bastards rock, I'd better catch them the next time they come around !!"

If there's one thing this film really DOES put across it is that the Stones continue to do what they do because ............ it's rock n' roll and (it would most definitely appear) that they REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY do LIKE IT !!!

When I sent in the setlist to Gazza I gave it an 8.5 out of 10. I'll stick to that, because there ARE ways in which I think it could've been a little better: more close-up camera work on/of Keith and Ronnie and Charlie, maybe some audience shots and other footage acquired in and around/on the street outside the theatre itself on the day(s), a bit more archival footage woven in here and there, but all in all, for what it is ....... I loved it and I'm REALLY glad I made the trek to Berlin to see it. And anyway, I'm sure that when it comes out on DVD, there will likely be lotsa bonus material. Here's hoping in any case !!

Thanks to Beast n' sssoul & open-g n' piotr for great company and a great time there in Berlin.



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>> ma'am? <<

bit young to be called ma'am, but yeah :-P

>> How on earth do you clean them up that well? <<

lots of patience and advanced alien techniques.

Yes, I wondered that too. Such great work--thanks again!


Paulwaul...thanks for the review! The first 15-20 minutes you describe sound absolutely fantastic. I can never get enough of footage of the boys off stage so reading your description is incredibly mouth-watering.

Great review, Pauly, thanks.
Hey, my pleasure roost. This one's for you...

Well done, Paulywaul, thanks for the review!!

Here's the BBC ........

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Thanks for the review Pauly...and cheers Adi

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Mick doesn't seem to be enjoying himself very much in these photos. I wonder why. The thread is getting too big for me to read every post since i'm sneaking peeks here from work.

I wonder if he is not feeling very well, or if he just is being cautious being in public (usually he seems to love that sort of thing, so it's weird)

I saw it all. I know why the moody looks. People shouted "Keef!" "Keef!"
all the time. He didnt look too comfortable with that.

It was so exciting for me to watch the red carpet! All four lads look fabulous, I absolutely love Keith's gray hair. With all the people shouting "Keef...Keef...Keef" the way they did it almost felt like in the middle of a Stones show with Keith about to start his set. ><

Thanks for posting all those beautiful pictures, yesterday was truly a great Stonesy day.

Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind...

thanx paulywaul; that was great. got a huge kick to hear about the five of you iorrollers sitting together and taking it all in, laughin', rockin' and sheddin' a tear or two together. really cool. straight from very trusted sources. brought the rest of us right inside with ya'll. ty!

Hi paulywaul, Very nice, enthusiastic review. Now I'm all pumped up to see this! So glad that a few of the diehards were able to be there for this screening.

Best wishes!
Cindy