Gar Veteran Member Posts:1676  
10/10/2006 12:05 AM |
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Anybody see this yet? Or even intrigued to see it?
Michael Dwyer penned a great review of it in The Ticket last week, and it's being played in the Screen......so very tempting. Although not sure if old Neil can still pull it off live.
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dermot_trellis New Member Posts:69  
10/10/2006 1:07 AM |
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Gonna go see it this week.. I believe he performs all of Prairie Wind and then some oldies, and it's all the mellower acoustic Neil. Supposed to be a very strong gig anyway.
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Mully Advanced Member Posts:849  
10/10/2006 8:43 AM |
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I heard Mark Kermode's review of it on his BBC Podcast. As a self-confessed hater of Neil Young, he said himself that he cried through it, as if a tuning fork went off in his head & he realised he loved Neil Young.
As good as 'The Last Waltz'.
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10/11/2006 2:54 PM |
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It's really, really great...
If your a Neil Young fan its essential viewing.. Also has the best end credit sequence I've seen in ages.
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10/12/2006 1:53 PM |
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going to this today, very much looking forward to it.
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Protein biscuit Basic Member Posts:364  
10/12/2006 2:08 PM |
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Showed a few snippets from it on The Last Broadcast last night. Shot over two nights in Nashville and from what i saw it seemed very good even though i'm lukewarm on Neil Young. It's been getting super reviews and directed by the man that brought us Stop Making Sense live and some other minor Oscar success! I say go, check it out. At least it'll confirm what your feelings on Young's legend. My only live experience of him was when i went to see him in the RDS about 10 years ago (yikes!) and even though i wasn't expecting much beforehand i was blown away. The man had more energy than someone half his age.
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amawaster Basic Member Posts:127  
10/12/2006 5:13 PM |
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saw it today, fantastic, was over all too quick
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dermot_trellis New Member Posts:69  
10/12/2006 6:13 PM |
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I saw this yesterday... it's quite good, but I don't think people who aren't already Neil Young fans would get a huge amount out of it. It's his gentler, folky\countryish side all the way through (I don't know if the old fella can manage the rock-outs these days) and hence there's a lack of really energetic moments a la Stop Making Sense, but his multi-part big band pull off the tunes pretty impressively.. There are poignant elements to it, he was just after his operation for his brain aneurysm and there's a sense of him re-appraising his life.
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