
This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Jim Jarmusch interviews the band about their long history, and we see backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s.... (Full plot summary below)
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This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Jim Jarmusch interviews the band about their long history, and we see backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s.
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| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackThis is an intimate, lyrical yet incendiary film, and it will please fans of both Young and Jarmusch, a filmmaker drawn to the intersection of American popular culture and a profound sense of loneliness. |
| Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt cuts right to the savage heart of it all, thrusting the music center stage and leaving the rumors and anecdotes (most of them, anyway) to the biographers. |
| EmpireWilliam ThomasIt's a million miles from MTV chic; instead a timeless record of a timeless band, now fifty-somethings uniting an everyman/woman/child audience. Feel the power. |
| Film Journal InternationalPeter HenneToo often comes across as so much fiddling with graphics and visual formats. |
| Sacramento BeeJoe BaltakeMuch like the subject himself, Jarmusch's film is decidedly not smooth and mellow, but it has the kick of a mule. |
| Jam! MoviesBruce KirklandIf you love the music, you'll adore the film. It rocks! |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaIf anything, the film drags a bit because the tour that Jarmusch chose to film, the 1996 effort, was following a Crazy Horse album that was, for them anyway, sub-par. But the interviews with the band members and the behind-the-scenes footage - as well as the vintage material - make for an entertaining and illuminating experience. |
| Boston GlobeJim SullivanJim Jarmusch's underwhelming documentary on the veteran rock group Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Of course the music is fine; a robotic camera could capture that. But Jarmusch gets nothing out of his interview except the band members and manager repeatedly telling us how long and how well the group works together. |
| E! OnlineE! StaffFans will freak and the curious will be rewarded by indie film legend Jarmusch's doc of Neil Young and Crazy Horse. |
| Los Angeles TimesJohn AndersonFans of Neil Young and Crazy Horse will doubtless revel in these lengthy concert scenes, and although occasionally the band's songs wander off into what appear to be impromptu jam sessions, Year of the Horse is never boring. |