Mr. Young's passionate cracked whine assumes an oracular power.
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USA TodayClaudia Puig
USA TodayClaudia Puig
It certainly stays alive in this spare and intriguing film directed by Jonathan Demme, who has helmed two previous Young concert films.
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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
Of course, the music is the thing and the sounds here earn Demme's reverence.
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine
As great and intimate as Live at Massey Hall 1971 may be, it's not as transportive as this filming of a Neil Young performance at the venue 30 years later.
The audience is never seen and only faintly heard. This puts a lot of visual pressure on a very inward performer. Young is a beast onstage, to be sure - he seems to re-grow an appendix for each song.
Fans of the 66-year-old guitar god (which is to say the only people who'll see this homespun gem) will revel in Young's winsome cruise down Memory Lane.