Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 94 Fresh: 85 Rotten:9 Average Rating: 8/10
Consensus:
Proving that it’s neither better to burn out nor fade away, Neil Young: Heart of Gold works both as a concert film and a meditation on mortality.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 10, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $1,660,898
Synopsis: In March 2005, Neil Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. Four days before he was scheduled for a lifesaving operation, he headed to Nashville, where he wrote and recorded the country folk album PRAIRIE WIND with old friends and family members. After the successful operation and... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Neil Young
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05/20/08
Shows the famed songwriter's performance and work off with reverance, and a faithfullness to the live experience.
10/06/06
...Even those who haven’t followed Young’s every recent move could well find his performance here surprisingly captivating.
10/05/06
...Neil Young has experimented with film many times, but this is by far the most accessible cinematic treatment of his music; a troubadour at the top of his game.
10/03/06
Young's presence, his heartfelt delivery, and the audience's fore-knowledge of his brain aneurysm add enough weight to make the film a surprisingly emotional experience
08/07/06
Regardless of what you call it, Heart of Gold is a revelation and one of 2006's best movies.
06/15/06
Demme continues to make concert films not because he's a fan, but because the concerts are inherantly cinematic and make perfect sense.
06/11/06
...The arrival of Neil Young: Heart of Gold should be an inspiration to music buffs and cinephiles alike.
05/20/06
The best moments in the film are when Ellen Kuras’s camera just sits there taking in the whole stage, the whole gorgeous ecosystem.
05/12/06
Top Critic
The beauty of the movie is in how alive it all sounds: rich and rueful and satisfying.
05/12/06
While his lyrics aren't complicated, both the words and the delivery reflect years of pain and anguish, particularly in seeing time pass, friends come and go.
05/04/06
The usual scope and spectacle of filmed concerts is done away with for a creation of intimacy.
04/27/06
Lets the music do the talking and that's great as far as I'm concerned: I love Young's sound.
04/08/06
It doesn't penetrate his craggy mystique, or make us hear his music in a new way. Instead, it's the same old choir song.
04/07/06
It shows the whole of Young's music as a well-worn mixture of brawn and grace. But it reveals the new Young album, Prairie Wind, as a sometimes musty echo of his 1972 acoustic-rock classic, Harvest.
04/06/06
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