Film: CSNY: Deja Vu

Friday Aug 01 07:00PM -- Beach Theatre

7pm and 9:15pm. $8, $9 online. Tickets are available only at The Beach Theater (see address, phone number, directions and website below, or cut & paste this link: http://www.beach-theatre.com/shoppingcart/index.php?cPath=1_478).


For the concert film CSNY: Déjà Vu, Neil Young set his own cameras rolling when his longtime bandmates joined him for a cross-country tour for his political album Living With War. But what makes the film unusual is that it focuses less on the band than on the people who come to see them play.

The film captures the visceral, often angry, sometimes jubilant reactions of ticket buyers, while Young and his colleagues David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash reflect on their involvement in the '60s anti-Vietnam protest movement and how it relates to today. Turning the lens from the stage to the seats was a way to find out why people felt the way they did about the fiery new anti-war songs, whether they liked or hated them.

Often the camera crew roams the corridors and lobbies of the arenas, capturing on-the-spot interviews with people at the height of their emotions. At one particularly divisive performance in Atlanta, one-third of the audience walked out. Many of their on-camera remarks are unprintable.