Gimme Shelter (1970)
Film Junk Podcast
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4.5 • 731 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 97 minutes
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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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