R.E.M. - Perfect Square
by Julia Knowles
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Actor: Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, R.E.M.Director: Julia Knowles
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
Editor: Damian O'Neill
Editor: Jon Blow
Producer: Ray Still
Producer: Sharon Ali
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 143 minutes
Published: 2004-03-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
DVD Reviews of R.E.M. - Perfect Square
DVD Review: What? R.E.M. played my hometown and I missed it? Sigh.
Summary: 4 Stars
So, not only did R.E.M. play by hometown back in 2003, they did so a week after my birthday, and I missed it. Of course having not been back in Wiesbaden for about a half-century might have something to do with it, but this is the first time I have seen anything of the place other than hostages from Iran or soldiers from the Middle East being brought to the military hospital where I was born, so that was a nice little bonus.
R.E.M. is doing an open air concert in the town of 270,000, located on right (north) bank of the Rhine River that serves as the capital of the Bundesland of Hesse in central Germany. The thing that stands out about this DVD for me is that it sounds like an actual concert, which is not necessarily a good thing, because I often have a hard time understanding what is being sung at concerts. Maybe I should have tried out some of the other audio options, but the sound was just not as crisp as I would have liked. The cinematography is rather straightforward and sedate, especially compared to some of the other concert films I have seen recently (e.g., "U2 Go Home: Live From Slane Castle").
So the chief attraction here ends up being the music (but do not expect to turn on the closed captioning to get the lyrics so you can sing along with Michael Stipe, because all you get out subtitles for his comments between songs). The play list falls one short of two dozen songs, including what is presented as a pretty long encore, and covers the entire spectrum of R.E.M.'s catalog up to that point. So you get the expected biggies ("Losing My Religion," "Man on the Moon," and Everybody Hurts," complete with raised lighters), along with lesser known song like "So Fast So Numb," and ones that go back to before the beginning in "Permanent Vacation." Stipe keeps alluding to the group's website, which apparently was used to help put together the song selections for the concert.
Stipe is still the one to watch on stage, but then Peter Buck and Mike Mills have never provided any competition in that regard (and even though Buck's playing calls attention to itself a couple of times, even if the camera is still focused on the guy singing most of the time). There is no claim here that this is the best R.E.M. concert film, because it is not. But seeing the boys from Athens perform is never going to be a waste of time. The DVD also includes the mini-documentary "Sterling Performance," which interviews the locals and the band before and after a trio of concerts R.E.M. played at Sterling Castle in July of 1999 (there are only brief clips of the band actually playing; you will get more shots of them setting up and taking down the stage).
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Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 03/16/2004 Rating: NrAlternative Rock Music CDs
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