Csny déjà vu

“CSNY: Déjà Vu,” Neil Young’s film about a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young concert tour in 2006, has some delicious moments, but you never quite shake the feeling that it’s documenting a tempest in a teapot. The band was responsible for some of rock’s most confrontational songs in the Vietnam era, including “Ohio,” about the Kent State shootings in 1970, and two years ago Mr.

Though it may be another in a long line of choir-preaching, anti-Iraq war documentaries, "CSNY/Déjà Vu," Neil Young's effective hybrid of concert film and political snapshot, is one of the shrewdest and most entertaining of the bunch. The movie, which the veteran rocker directed under the pseudonym Bernard Shakey, chronicles Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 2006 "Freedom of Speech" reunion tour in which [...] Vai alla recensione »

Dal rock come dimensione "totale" alla musica come impegno e protesta. Dalla band più coesa che la storia ricordi, a un gruppo diviso e plurale già nel nome. Dal mito sulfureo degli Stones a quello più nobile ma forse meno sfavillante di Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Che dopo essersi sciolti hanno deciso di riunirsi, serenamente invecchiati e panciuti (altra differenza chiave rispetto agli Stones), [...] Vai alla recensione »