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Soon after came Showman (1963), a
controversial film about movie mogul
Joseph E. Levine. Several other docu-
mentaries followed, including What's
Happening (1964), an inside look at
the Beatles' first trip to America; Meet
Marlon Brando (1965), in which the
actor confronts fast-talking reporters;
and the classic Salesman (1968), the
story of four Bible peddlers.
Yet nothing could have prepared
Maysles for what would become his
most famous film to date, 1970's
t California's Altamont
Speedway in 1969, Mick
Jagger rocked as Albert
Maysles' cameras rolled.
What Ivlaysles also unknowingly cap-
tured on film was the fatal stabbing of
18-year-old Meredith Hunter by one of
the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, ill-
advisedly employed as the Rolling Stones'
civilian security team.
That instant, immortal-
ized in the documentary
film Gimme Shelter would
come to symbolize the
demise of the hippie era.
On screen, it's an elec-
trifying moment. And yet
the film brilliantly main-
tains its objectivity, allow-
ing an unresolved ambigu-
ity to resonate profoundly
through the very last shot.
A restored version of
Gimme Shelter will be
shown at the Detroit Film
David Maysles, Mick Jagger, Albert Maysles and
Theatre on Monday,
Charlie Watts during the filming of "Gimme Shelter"
March 19,
"Nobody shoots quite the
Gimme Shelter.
way that I do," insists director
The Maysles brothers — along with
Maysles, one of the innovators of
co-director
and longtime collaborator
American documentary filmmaking.
Charlotte
Zwerin
— were invited to
Along with his brother David (1932-
accompany
the
Rolling
Stones on their
1987), Maysles originated "direct cine-
1969
tour.
The
film
that
resulted is a doc-
ma," a style similar to the French cine-
ument
as
important
for
its
cultural rele-
ma verite.
vance as for its pioneering filmmaking.
Direct cinema uses no planned
The feature-length movie follows
interviews, scripts, sets or conventional
Mick Jagger, the Stones and their man-
narration. Instead, its aim is to dis-
agement as they plan the now-notori-
pense with artificiality and to record
ous free concert at Altamont Speedway
real people in unrehearsed situations.
in California. Intended as another
"None of our filming is what you
Woodstock,
the festival at Altamont
might call 'point of view,'" Maysles
turned
tragic
when violence erupted.
explains. "We're not trying to prove
There is an unrelenting sense of
anything, good or bad. That makes a
dark irony as the story unravels. It
big difference."
plays itself out like a classic Greek
Maysles' film career has always fol-
tragedy, with Rolling Stones lead
lowed this commitment to objective
singer Mick Jagger as the fated hero.
storytelling. Born in Boston of Eastern
"People, touch each other in love,
European Jewish immigrants and
not
in violence," pleads the star from
raised in Brookline, Mass., he and his
the
stage.
But it's too late. With the
brother teamed up in the mid-1950s
best intentions, Jagger has unknowing-
to make a film about the Polish stu-
ly set in motion a chaotic and cata-
dent revolution.