Crossfire Hurricane
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| Directed by | Brett Morgen |
| Produced by | Mick Jagger Victoria Pearman Keith Richards Charlie Watts |
| Editing by | Stuart Levy Conor O'Neill |
| Studio | Milkwood Films Tremolo Productions |
| Distributed by | HBO |
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| Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Crossfire Hurricane is a 2012 documentary film about The Rolling Stones written and directed by Brett Morgen. The film chronicles the early years of the band through their gradual mainstream acceptance. The film is a series of interviews conducted without cameras, while showing various points of interest that the band is discussing as archival footage. The title of the film comes from the first line of the band's 1968 hit Jumpin' Jack Flash.[1]
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Critical reception [edit]
The film received mostly positive reviews. Review aggregator website Metacritic, which assigns normalized scores, gave the film a 77 out of 100, based on 17 critics.[2]
John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal:
[T]his kind of thing elevates Mr. Morgen's artfully crafted collage, which has a free-associative attitude but a very precise tone of voice. Constructed out of archival materials that include newsreel footage and some never-before-seen outtakes from the better films on this much-documented band (including the Maysles brothers' 1970 Gimme Shelter and Robert Frank's 1972 documentary with the unmentionable title), the movie is full of ripe moments, as well as a sense of being under someone's thumb.[3]
From James Poniewozik of Time magazine:
It's not a movie for music geeks, in the sense of unpacking the band's influences or closely analyzing how their songs worked. Instead it links the music to the members' stories, trying to capture how the electricity of the group's personalities created art. It's not a revelation, but it's an intimate story of the band, with performance sequences that show how five guys—in different lineups—came together and made an entity of pure fire and sex.[4]
From David Hinckley of New York Daily News:
The Stones have been better showcased and explained than they are in Crossfire Hurricane. Still, as personalities and musicians, they never fail to provide a good measure of satisfaction.[5]
The film won a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing: Long Form Documentary.[6]
Charts [edit]
| Chart (2013) | Peak position |
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| Australian Music DVDs Chart[7] | 2 |
| Austrian Music DVDs Chart[8] | 4 |
| Danish Music DVDs Chart[9] | 8 |
| Irish Music DVDs Chart[10] | 9 |
| Swedish Music DVDs Chart[11] | 3 |
| Swiss Music DVDs Chart[12] | 2 |
| UK Music Videos Chart[13] | 1 |
References [edit]
- ^ "Jumping Jack Flash Lyrics – Rolling Stones". Elyrics.net. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Critic Reviews for Crossfire Hurricane Season 1". Metacritic. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ Anderson, John (8 November 2012). "Crossfire Hurricane | Rolling Stones | Brett Morgen | HBO | Family Guy | Catfish: The TV Show | When the Stones Were on a Roll | By John Anderson – WSJ.com". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ Poniewozik, James (15 November 2012). "TV Tonight: Crossfire Hurricane | TIME.com". Time Entertainment. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "TV Review: HBO’s ‘Crossfire Hurricane’". NY Daily News. 15 November 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "2013 Golden Reel Award Winners & Nominees: Television". Motion Picture Sound Editors. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
- ^ "ARIA Top 40 Music DVDs". The ARIA Report (1194): 24. 14 January 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "Austria Top 40 – Musik-DVDs Top 10 18.01.2013". Austriancharts.at (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "Musik DVD Top 10". Hitlisten.NU. IFPI Denmark. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ "Irish Charts". IRMA. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
- ^ "Sveriges Officiella Toppista". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 18 January 2013. Search for Crossfire Hurricane and click Sök.
- ^ "Swiss Charts – Music DVD Top 10 20.01.2013". Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ "2013-01-19 Top 40 Music Video Archive". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
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