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Film Junk Podcast

Gimme Shelter (1970)

Film Junk Podcast

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Comedy, Entertainment

4.5731 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Who's fighting and what for? Why are we fighting? The idealism of the '60s gave way to tragedy and darkness in December 1969 as captured in the seminal Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter. Directed by The Maysles Brothers and Charlotte Zwerin, this is more than just a concert film but rather a complex masterwork that would influence non-fiction filmmakers for many generations to come. Is there a difference between direct cinema and cinema verité? Is Mick Jagger's stage banter "cringe"? Should all live musical performances sound just like the original album recording? Who is better... The Beatles or The Rolling Stones? Get yer ya-ya's out on this week's episode of Film Junk.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, welcome to film junk.

0:09.8

My name is Sean.

0:11.2

My name is Jay.

0:12.5

And my name is Frank.

0:14.3

And this week we are talking about the landmark 1970 Rolling Stones, Gimmie Shelter.

0:22.5

It's a landmark film, right, I think.

0:25.4

Directed by Albert and David Maisels and Charlotte Zwerin.

0:30.5

The plot synopsis is,

0:32.7

when 300,000 members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway.

0:41.7

The bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized in this film.

0:50.0

That's pretty crazy.

0:52.0

That's a crazy plot synopsis right there.

0:54.0

So, uh, give me shelter we have

0:56.5

definitely talked about it before i don't think we've ever done a full review maybe we talked about

1:02.7

it on the movie club podcast a long time ago but jay i know it's a favorite of yours. And why don't you give us, like, you know, your brief kind of background with the movie and why you wanted to revisit it?

1:19.3

Well, my, I don't remember the first time I saw it.

1:23.5

It must have been early 20s, I think.

1:28.4

Big fan of the mazes.

1:30.7

And I had always heard about this film and thought it was just a pure concert film.

1:37.0

And my interest was kind of not totally there.

1:41.5

And at some point, finally sat down to watch it and was completely blown away by

1:46.9

what it actually turns out to be. And partly because it still is a concert film, they ride a

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