Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8097 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-08-06
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Black & White, Colour, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 95 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Rattle and Hum is not a film for anyone looking for an introduction to Irish band U2's career in the 1980s, but it is a vibrant portrait of an established group making its musical pilgrimage through the America it has always imagined, from blues and gospel to early rock 'n' roll. Filmmaker Phil Joanou (Heaven's Prisoners), a veteran music-video director and maker of the distractingly kinetic Three O'Clock High, finds a suitable outlet for his high energy in this juggernaut of a journey, which finds U2 collaborating with a black gospel choir and BB King, recording inside the legendary Sun Records studio, dropping by Graceland, and in a moment of fearlessness, performing the Beatles' "Helter Skelter" to exorcise Charles Manson's sick claim on the song. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Special Features
1.78 Wide Screen
English
Region 2

Synopsis
Follow the Grammy Award-winning band on their musical journey from its native Ireland through the United States - along the streets of Harlem; behind the gates of Elvis Presley's Graceland; into a recording session at the legendary Sun Studios; and center stage at an impromptu live concert in downtown San Francisco. Contains nine songs not included on the hit soundtrack.

Customer Reviews

A Taster or a Teaser
This is excellent as far as it goes. Unfortunately so many of the songs seem to be cut short, so it ends up as a frustrating experience. Contrary to other reviewers, I think the black and white footage detracts from the stage presentations and is a pointless, 'arty' effect. The interviews are interesting first time, but on certain tracks if you jump past the chat, you also miss the music! The performances are great, and they have tempted me to look at other live concerts. Finally, at Amazon's price, with all my reservations, this is still a bargain and all U2 fans will love it. I just wish the songs were complete.

Rocks hottest tickets on film
The greatest band on earth captured in a film that is a crossing between a concertfilm, a personal portrait and a road-movie. In here U2 is captured during their 1988 U.S. tour but this is not only about music, but also their search for their own identity, their musical foundation (playing gospel in a church in Harlem) and new innovative musical cross-overs (singing together with BB King)

The film is shot in shacky black and white which is great and gives it the feeling of you beeing there. The last part of the film is in colour.

Twenty-two songs are performed, unfortunately does not nine of them appear on the album of the same title, so that reason alone is enough to buy the DVD instead. A must have for a U2 fan!

Gold Dust - Superior to the CD/LP in many ways
I'd read a review following the original release of the original LP on vinyl. That review affected my judgement of Rattle and Hum for years, until a few days ago. I sat and watched an old TV taped version of Rattle and Hum that I'd done myself in the early nineties but never had the time to absorb properly until a few days ago, and I was spellbound. I had to get the DVD version. There on the shelf at a snip sat the best music DVD I've ever bought. Lovely guitar work of course by The Edge, particularly the solo song he does, and this version of Sunday.. is a moment to be seen, particularly poignant because of Enniskillen...sums up everything about the Troubles, takes all the terrorists' excuses on both sides in Northern Ireland and throws them in the bin. OK, enough of the politics. Yes, I can understand the not so glowing LP review, particularly if you had the preceding LPs in your collection, but the DVD? Fantastic. There's an extra 11 tracks that aren't on the CD for God's sake!?! The sound is a mite patchy in places with a couple of dropouts, but, heck, what do you expect when it's live. I'm going to buy the Essential tour by U2 next! Truly worth every penny, especially at this knock down price!?!?!