Canada / USA,
1991, 89 min
Shown in 1992
CREDITS
- dir
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Julien Temple, Roman Kroitor, David Douglas, Noel Archambault
- cam
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David Douglas, Andrew Kitzanuk, Haskell Wexler
- editor
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Daniel W. Blevins
- cast
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Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman
- prod co
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BCI; Imax; Promotour
- source
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Imax Corporation
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COMMENTS
Shown in the IMAX Theater at Great America.
OTHER
What do the Rolling Stones have in common with King Kong? A lot, now that their likenesses can be seen blown up to superhuman scale on a movie screen 65 feet high and 85 feet wide. Thanks to a process called IMAX, the Rolling Stones can be seen in At the Max towering awesomely over audiences. From the viewer’s standpoint, this is indeed an imposing spectacle, one that gives new meaning to the title World’s Biggest Rock Stars. At such close range, the rough edges of a performance might be expected to show up, but in the Stones' case the opposite is true. The big revelation is the utter professionalism with which a Stones performance is staged. At the Max records the band's 1990 “Steel Wheels” tour. This 15-song performance film includes “Street Fighting Man,” “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Ruby Tuesday” and “Satisfaction,” along with newer titles like “Start Me Up” and “Rock and a Hard Place.” Among the remarkable IMAX contributions are some amazing high-contrast, stop-motion images that turn the once-psychedelic “2,000 Light Years from Home” into something resembling Pop Art. Like everything else here, it's pretty monumental.
—Janet Maslin, New York Times
FACTOID #75
Italian screen siren and ’60s sex symbol Sophia Loren appeared in two films screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival: Ettore Scola’s A Special Day in 1977 and Francesco Rosi’s More Than a Miracle in 1981.
