Directed by Jonathan Demme
2006/US
IMDb page
First viewing/YouTube rental
Neil Young: [singing] I want to live, I want to give, I’ve been a miner, For a heart of gold, It’s these expressions, I never give, That keep me searching, For a heart of gold, And I’m getting old…
Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense) gives us another excellent concert film.
This beautiful film was shot during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. We also get interviews of Young and the members of his band. Emmylou Harris is one of his backup singers.
How much you like this will depend on how well you like Young’s music. I like his old songs, which thankfully he includes, better than his newer material.
I should track this down. My musical tastes are for someone about 10 years older than I am thanks to my brothers. Neil Young figured heavily in my formative years.
He’s got enough of a catalog that you can forget a good half of it and still have hours of stuff worth listening to.
I found a list of the best concert films and am going down it. Lots of the artists on the list I don’t know or like but there are plenty of others. Number one is the Last Waltz which I reviewed here
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young:_Heart_of_Gold
Like you, older Neil is the (on the whole) best Neil.
I love his hits but a lot of the other songs sound the same to me.