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LIGHT SHINES ON BERLINALE OPENING
Thursday, February 7 2008
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The Berlin Film festival is set to open tonight (Thursday) with a screening of Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones concert documentary, Shine a Light. At a news conference earlier today, the Stones' Keith Richards indicated that the group had been approached several times in the past about making films of their concerts -- something, he indicated, that had never really interested him. However, when he heard that director Scorsese wanted to make such a film, he said, "I thought, 'This is interesting.'" The film, he said, is "Martin's movie. We're just the leading men." Scorsese himself acknowledged that he wanted also to capture "the humor, the absurdity of trying to put [a Stones concert] on film." When a reporter observed that the film may also demonstrate the futility of attempting to do so, Stones front man Mick Jagger suggested that it was intended not merely to present a concert on the movie screen. Rather, he said, it's "that night [of the performance] set in amber."
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BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL GETS WHAT THEY WANT
Wednesday, January 16 2008
The
Berlin
Film
Festival
has
chosen
Shine
a
Light,
Martin
Scorsese's
documentary
about
the
Rolling
Stones,
to
open
this
year's
festival
on
February
7.
Festival
organizers
said
Tuesday
that
the
director
and
the
veteran
rock
band
will
attend
the
screening.
In
its
statement,
the
organizers
said,
"Scorsese
has
created
an
extraordinary
musical
film
event
and
given
audiences
unprecedented
access
to
the
Rolling
Stones
both
on
stage
and
off."
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SCORSESE TO DIRECT GEORGE HARRISON FILM
Thursday, September 27 2007
Martin
Scorsese,
who
appears
to
enjoy
making
documentaries
about
celebrated
musicians
as
much
as
he
does
dramas
about
the
underworld,
is
planning
to
direct
a
film
about
George
Harrison,
the
former
Beatle
who
died
in
2001,
Daily
Variety
reported
today
(Thursday).
His
widow,
Olivia,
told
the
trade
publication,
"It
would
have
given
George
great
joy
to
know
that
Martin
Scorsese
has
agreed
to
tell
his
story."
She
said
that
Paul
McCartney
and
Ringo
Starr,
the
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