Word: toure
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...Candy Mountain contains a lot of autobiographical material based on his experiences in New York and later as a near-recluse in Canada. I can't help suspecting that he sees himself in the character of Elmore Silk, escaping from a cynical entertainment world--which the Rolling Stones on tour epitomized--and striving to save his artistic integrity. Even a movie about disillusionment, however, has to draw its viewers in with something worth their attention. Candy Mountain doesn't. Frank clearly can, and has, done better...
...weird story. The Stones asked Frank to make a movie about their 1972 tour, and he followed the Stones around with 16mm and Super 8 cameras, shooting whatever happened to be taking place in cinema verite style. Unfortunately, what took place turned out to be some pretty rough stuff, including the band's drug use, and later, when Keith Richards got busted for heroin in Toronto, the Stones were afraid that the film might be used as evidence against him and threatened a court order against its release...
...great irony of this film is that it isn't really about the Rolling Stones nearly so much as it is about a rock tour--yes, with its attendant sleaze, but also with its attendant boredom, superficiality, dreariness and plain stupidity. The sleaze isn't a dominant theme so much as a simple reality. Something happened--Keith shot up--so here it is on celluloid. The camera doesn't pay any special attention to Keith's drug use, at least no more attention than anyone on the tour seems to be paying. Frank's chief aim in this film seems...
...general manager Art Berglund, who plotted out a 60-game, pre-Olympic tour for Team USA composed primarily of games versus college varsity squads...
...club hopes to be in prime shape for its tour of New Orleans during Spring Break at the beginning of April...