Ashes of American Flags
by Brendan Canty;Christoph Green
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Actor: WilcoDirector: Brendan Canty;Christoph Green
Brand: WILCO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-04-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Nonesuch
DVD Reviews of Ashes of American Flags
DVD Review: Remarkable and Moving
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of my favorite concert DVD's, rivaling Clapton's CrossRoads DVD in production quality. The performances are both remarkable and moving, showcasing Wilco at a wonderful point in their career. The DVD has many of their best songs. Seeing the Ryman performance was really great. Nels Cline is an amazing guitarist. Some of the cuts have Wilco in a triple guitar attack. "Impossible Germany" soars. There is a very touching cameo where Tweedy's Dad joins Jeff at a concert and praises his son's efforts. While their studio albums are excellent, Wilco is best appreciated live. They are unquestionably one of the best bands around. Bravo!DVD Review: Ashes Of American Flags!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just finished this documentary/live performences and was completly blown away.This dvd should prove why WILCO is probably one of the best or thee best performing rock band out there that is still playing.This was also my first time seeing Nels Clines's guitar work which is unbelievably amazing (i got goosebumps so many time's from his guitar solos).Jeff Tweedy is still very fun to watch perform and joke with the audience.All 6 members are so connected with what they are doing on stage.The timing and patience with them proves this band has tremendous passion & maturity as a band for what they do.
Key performences:
Side with the Seeds
Handshake Drugs
Impossible Germany
Via Chicago
Extras include 7 more full length live performences.
DVD Review: They just get better and better
Summary: 5 Stars
I can sum this up by saying it is the best musical performance documentary since "The Last Waltz." As a band Wilco keeps growing and maturing and their work reflects it. I am very sad to not have caught them during this tour; this movie is the next best thing to that.DVD Review: Wilco Live "Ashes of American Flags" = Wilco's 1st Long Form Concert Film = A1+!!!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent concert performance dvd by Wilco. It features live performances by Wilco filmed in 5 lengendary Southern U.S.A. Venues during 2008. These venues are Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tipitina's in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mobile, Alabama Civic Center, The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, and the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. The dvd starts of kinda like a documentary, but then progresses into concert performances. It does contain some documentary elements during the DVD, but it is mostly concert performance footage. The music Wimco performs, sounds like, what the late/great Gram Parsons called "Cosmic American Music". This kind of music has also been referred to as "Alternative Country", "Americana", and "No Depression".!It can also be referred to as plain ole "Southern Rock". Although Jeff Tweedy, the lead man is from Illinois, John Stirratt, the bass guitar player is from Mandeville, Louisiana, just across Lake Pochantrain from New Orleans. John Stirratt has been with Jeff Tweedy for a long time, even when they had a band named "Uncle Tupelo", before they became "Wilco". During some of the performances, Wilco's lead singer and frontman Jeff Tweedy, wears a "Nudie" suit, similier to the "Nudie" suit that the late/great Gram Parsons used to wear. A "Nudie" suit is one of those flashy, decorated country & western suits, designed by a tailor in L.A. with a nick name of "Nudie". Jeff is a "cool" frontman. He and the band perform outstanding music in this dvd. This dvd contains 13 basic songs, plus a bonus of 7 more songs. I'm not sure of the time line, but it is a fairly lengthy dvd.
The line-up is as follows:
Jeff Tweedy
John Stirratt
Glen Kotche
Nels Cline
Pat Sansone
Mikael Jorgensen
The song set is as gollows:
1. Ashes of American Flags
2. Side With the Seeds
3. Handshake Drugs
4. The Late Greats
5. Kingpin
6. Wishful Thinking
7. Impossicle Germany
8. Via Chicago (this one includes a sound, like a jet airplane taking off)
9. Shot in the Arm
10.Monday
11.You are My Face
12.Heavy Metal Drummer
13.War on War
The bonus songs are as follows:
1.I'm the Man Who Loves You
2.Airline to Heaven
3.It's just That Simple
4.At Least That's What You Said
5/I am Trying to Break Your Heart
6.Theologians
7.Hate it Hese
Overall, this is great concert performance dvd, along with some documentary emements. For example, somewhere in the bonus portion, you get a conversation of Jeff Tweedy!with his Dad. Also, you get some scenes from the road, taken from their tour bus. If you like this kinda music, then you should really enjoy this dvd. I enjoy it very much. This is a "unique" band. I've never seen any other band, quite like this one. So, if you like, what I have described, tien you should really enjoy this dvd, and therefore, I do recommend it. Thanks!!!!
DVD Review: Not perfect, but highly captivating
Summary: 4 Stars
A preface: I just saw this film on the Sundance Channel so I'm only reviewing the film portion (not the bonus materials that are apparently available on the DVD).
After recently seeing this film on the Sundance Channel I'm planning to purchase it. In fact, I essentially made that decision during the film's first song, "Ashes of American Flags." The setting -- soundcheck inside the vacant Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Okla. -- and the photography are beautiful and captivating, and set the tone for the rest of the film. I was hooked. The fact that this documentary features three songs from the fantastic Ryman Auditorium show I attended on March 2, 2008, was the clincher.
As a photographer, I loved the nicely composed footage -- the strongest of which comes from passing landscapes and roadside cutaways. (The still photo featured on the DVD cover is taken from one of the most glorious shots in the film.) The documenting of Wilco's musical performances is great too, if not quite as jaw-dropping visually. The music itself is of course a highlight.
The only real drawback for me is the fact that some of the included interview subject matter makes the film at times seem more like a band's electronic press kit (pre-packaged video productions that labels send to the press to introduce a band) rather than a documentary film. I'm thinking particularly of the John Stirratt background material early in the film. I didn't get the same EPK feeling from 2002's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," which I enjoyed as well. Maybe this won't be an issue to others or even to me on later viewings, but such material did strike me as a bit off-tone during my initial viewing. Other scenes, meanwhile, fit smoothly into the documentary framework, like the band members backstage using ice packs to recuperate from injuries sustained during shows.
Obviously Wilco fans are a best fit for this film, but I personally feel that there is enough here to hold the attention of newcomers as well. All in all, it's a very well-executed film that I would recommend to others.
Description of Ashes of American Flags
Ashes of American Flags follows Wilco from Tulsa, Oklahoma (Cain's Ballroom) to Washington D.C. (9:30 Club) during its 2008 U.S. tour of ballrooms, clubs and concert halls, capturing the six-piece band, and three-man horn section, at suchhallowed venues as Tipitina's in New Orleans and the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. This feature-length DVD is a concert film of extraordinary intimacy, with the HD cameras focused primarily on the stage and often inches away from singer songwriter Jeff Tweedy's microphone or drummer Glenn Kotche's cymbals. Ashes of American Flags also functions as an evocative travelogue, a document of the band's physical and emotional journey. Co-directors Brendan Canty, the former Fugazi
drummer, and Christoph Green track Wilco's tour bus across the country, taking in both the wide-angle beauty and William Eggleston-like desolation of the highways and cities they pass through. At each stop, the filmmakers record candid moments
at sound check, back stage and on the bus, where band members offer insights into their lives on the road and their remarkably intuitive communication as a group.
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