CSNY / Deja Vu
by Bernard Shakey
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Actor: David Crosby, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Stephen Colbert, Stephen StillsDirector: Bernard Shakey
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
- DVD Details: Actors: David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Stephen Colbert
- Directors: Bernard Shakey
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1; Number of discs: 1; Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: September 30, 2008; Run Time: 96 minutes
DVD Reviews of CSNY / Deja Vu
DVD Review: Old songs for a new war
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a timely rockumentary from Bernard Shakey (Greendale). Bernard who? Okay, you probably know him better as the iconoclastic folk-rock-alt-country-"Godfather of Grunge"-cum-antiwar activist-filmmaker (did I leave anything out?)...Neil Young.
Mixing backstage footage and musical highlights from the 2006 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Freedom of Speech Tour with vox populi interviews and analysis by "embedded" journalist Mike Cerre (a veteran front lines Afghanistan/Iraq war correspondent) the doc plays somewhere between The Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing and Fahrenheit 9-11.
The 2006 reunion of the notoriously mercurial foursome was spearheaded by Young not so much as a nostalgia tour but rather as a musical wake-up call addressing the Bush administration's post 9-11 shenanigans, at home and in Iraq. The tour commenced on the heels of Young's incendiary Living with War album (definitely not on Junior's iPod).
The reaction from audiences (and music critics) was mixed. Young cheekily employs voiceover actors to read excerpts from concert reviews in the local rags, and particularly seems to take perverse delight in highlighting the sneers and snarks (usually involving ageist references to the band's senior citizen status). I will give him credit for including some (brief) "warts and all" excerpts from some early shows in the tour, like one instance where the quartet's rusty pipes are definitely a couple bubbles off plumb. And speaking of falling flat, we also witness a senior moment as a band member takes an onstage tumble.
The most eye-opening moment in the film occurs when the band plays Atlanta, a city usually perceived as a blue oasis in a red state. At first, all appears to be going swimmingly, with the audience happily clapping and singing along with the old "hits". But things get interesting as the band launches into some more recent material from Young's aforementioned Living with War album (accompanied by a faux-Karaoke lyric scroll on the huge onstage projection screen, just in case anyone misses the point):
Let's impeach the President for lying
And misleading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
Suddenly, the temperature in the auditorium seems to drop about 50 degrees; catcalls and hisses quickly escalate to boos, bird flipping and near-rioting. Cerre interviews some of the disenchanted as they stalk out; the outrage ranges from bitching about the ticket prices to threatening grievous bodily harm to Neil Young, should they get close enough. Backstage, the band takes the philosophical high road (with age comes wisdom, nu?)
But all cracks about geriatric rockers aside, it becomes apparent that the one thing that remains ageless is the power of the music, and the commitment from the performers. Songs like "Ohio", "Military Madness", "For What it's Worth" and "Chicago" prove to have resilience and retain a topical relevance that does not go unnoticed by younger fans. And anyone who doesn't tear up listening to the band deliver the solemnly beautiful harmonies of their elegiac live show closer, "Find the Cost of Freedom", while a photo gallery featuring hundreds of smiling young Americans who died in Iraq scrolls on the big screen behind them, can't possibly have anything resembling a soul residing within.
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