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A film shot over during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
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| VarietyRobert KoehlerThe concert film has never looked or sounded classier than Jonathan Demme's superbly crafted Neil Young: Heart of Gold. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigThe mesmerizing, heart-tugging concert film Heart of Gold confirms Neil Young's stature as a national treasure. |
| The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsIt's hard to film icons like Young as anything BUT icons, but Demme's film gets past the legend, zooming in on Young's aged, heroic face and finding an artist as human as the rest of us. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowThe result is a performance film that conjures a vision of American life as moving, funny and rueful as John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyHeart of Gold feels like an ample slice of the real America, the one truly worth caring for. And it's such a rare thing in this benighted age that the simple clarity with which it's presented feels like nothing less than a miracle. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyAt the film's intimate best, it gives a guitar's perspective of the troubadour. He plucks his instrument as he plays our heartstrings. It's movie and music bliss. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinDemme is in such perfect sync with Young's music that even the painted prairie backdrop (and the painted farmhouse interior screen, complete with hearth, that slides in front of it) only makes you roll your eyes in retrospect. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIt's the record of a life, a musical and spiritual autobiography, and as directed by Jonathan Demme it taps into the kind of unashamed, unsentimental emotion that's become increasingly rare in films of any kind. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorJonathan Demme's superb film of Neil Young's 2005 performance at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium is as fervent a musical homage as was Demme's bubbly tribute to the Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense (1984). |
| Austin ChronicleRaoul HernandezIn this sushi age of methamphetamine concert DVDs and dysfunction junction music tell-alls, Jonathan Demme dreams us back to the golden age of performance films. |