Gimme Shelter

“Gimme Shelter. Which is kind of the opposite of The Monterey Pop Festival. Part reality show, part… Dogme 95 almost. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You just gotta go with the moment. And be present, be a fly on the wall. And this is probably the greatest example. A concert’s thrown and… a murder occurs during the Rolling Stones’ Performance and it’s so chilling to watch the Stones watch the footage of the murder.”

“Gimme Shelter. Okay, well, I was a giant Rolling Stones fan, and it is one of the most chilling and interesting and disturbing documentaries about the flip side of crowds and of fandom and of rock and roll, and certainly so emblematic of a turn from the ’60s love-child generation to where we kind of went, for a while, in the direction of the ’70s towards the ’80s, and it’s just like breathtaking, breathtaking movie.”

“Give me shelter because of the Stones and because of the Maysles brothers and because I read a book about Altamont that really told me what was up and the entire disaster can be hung squarely on Mick Jagger. Yeah, read the Joel Selvin book.”

“Oh is this Gimme Shelter? Is this that Rolling Stones one? Yeah. Oh my god, this is another amazing music documentary. I've realized doing this that I'm a sucker for a music documentary actually. And I think it's often spoken about as being like the end of the 60s and peace and love and all this stuff, this kind of horrific act kind of happening at the very heart of one of the gigs of one of the bands that kind of made the 60s what it was. It's an absolute must watch.”