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	Shine A Light Release date: 29/5/2008 Rating: YTC Running time: TBC Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Charlie Watts
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On May 29, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker and the world's greatest rock n' roll band will unite to bring audiences the year's most extraordinary musical film event, "Shine A Light," to cinemas.

Martin Scorsese's concert documentary "Shine A Light" shows the world the Rolling Stones as they've never been seen before. Filmed at the famed Beacon Theatre in New York City in the northern hemisphere's Autumn 2006, Scorsese assembled a legendary team of cinematographers to capture the raw energy of the legendary band.

The "Shine a Light" team used swooping cameras to capture the Stones in the intimate confines of the 2800-seat Broadway theatre. The band goes through a 22-song set list with the usual hits ("Brown Sugar," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Start Me Up").

Oscar®-winning cinematographer Robert Richardson ("The Aviator," "JFK") supervised the camera team comprised of several highly acclaimed directors of photography. The film was edited by David Tedeschi, who most recently worked with Scorsese on the acclaimed Bob Dylan documentary "No Direction Home: Bob Dylan."

Produced and financed by Steve Bing's Shangri-La Entertainment and longtime Rolling Stones tour promoter Michael Cohl's Concert Promotions International, the film was produced by Victoria Pearman, Michael Cohl, Zane Weiner and Steve Bing. The executive producers are Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood, with Jane Rose serving as co-executive producer.

It's hard to overestimate the importance of the Rolling Stones in rock 'n roll history. The group, which formed in London in 1962, distilled so much of the music that had come before it and has exerted a decisive influence on so much that has come after. Only a handful of musicians in any genre achieve that stature, and the Stones stand proudly among them.

Every album the group released through the early Seventies - from "The Rolling Stones" in 1964 to "Exile on Main Street" in 1972 – is essential not simply to an understanding of the music of that era, but to an understanding of the era itself. In their intense interest in blues and R&B, the Stones connected a young audience in the U.S. to music that was unknown to the vast majority of white Americans. Though the Stones were not overtly political in their early years, their obsession with African American music – from Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf to Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye and Don Covay - struck a chord that resonated with the goals of the civil rights movement. If the Stones had never made an album after 1965, they would still be legendary ...

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