Neil Young Journeys

The heart of any concert movie is the concert itself, and in the case of Neil Young Journeys, it’s a great one. At the opposite end of the spectrum from Heart Of Gold’s airless elegance, Journeys finds Neil Young alone onstage at Toronto’s Massey Hall...

Let’s get this out of the way upfront -- “Neil Young Journeys” is pretty pointless. That’s not the same as pretty awful. Far from it. It’s a Neil Young concert film, and watching a performance by one of rock music’s all-time greats is almost certainly...

The nicest thing I can think of to say about the doc “Neil Young Journeys” is that at least it isn’t in 3-D.

“Neil Young Journeys” is the third documentary/concert film focusing on the great Canadian songwriter that director Jonathan Demme has made since 2006, and it’s the weakest of the three, even as it sporadically charms.

The title “Neil Young Journeys” implies an overview of his lengthy career, but the solo concert is more of shuttle between two points. Almost of all of the songs are either from his 1970 folk-rock pinnacle or from Young's feedback-fueled new album...

Jonathan Demme’s “Neil Young Journeys” is his third documentary about the legendary rocker. Unlike the previous entries, this one is essentially a solo concert film, recorded over several nights in Toronto’s Massey Hall in May 2011.

Neil Young Journeys completes director Jonathan Demme’s trilogy of concert films centered on Neil Young. While 2006’s Neil Young: Heart of Gold featured the singer in Nashville returning from a bout with an aneurysm, and 2009’s Neil Young Trunk Show...

Neil Young Journeys is the 4th film Jonathan Demme has directed about Neil Young, the Canadian balladeer and rocker. They've done one short and three documentaries. Also they collaborated for Demme's movie Philadelphia (1993), when Demme used Young's...

As great and intimate as Live at Massey Hall 1971 may be, it's not as transportive as Jonathan Deem's filming of a Neil Young performance at the venue 30 years later. On the 1971 concert album, in which the newly famous Young returned to his native...

For the third time, the “Silence of the Lambs” director has returned to the Young well to create a raw and mangy concert movie. Demme’s latest wet-kiss to the star follows 2006’s “Heart of Gold,” which captured a flinty acoustic-based performance in...

If you were to name the director best suited to capture the musicality and authenticity of Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young, thoughts would not immediately turn to the man responsible for The Silence of the Lambs.

It's essentially a concert film, the third (following Heart of Gold and Trunk Show) in which director Jonathan Demme showcases Neil Young's blazing guitar and bruised wonder of a voice. Demme journeys with the Canadian icon back to his hometown, Omemee...

Director Jonathan Demme’s third concert-film collaboration with the abiding rocker finds him back in his native Ontario, surveying old familiar landscapes—both physical and sonic—and meandering by car to Toronto’s Massey Hall to close out his 2011 solo...

According to the lyrics of one of the new songs he performs in Jonathan Demme's documentary, Neil Young writes about "love and war." And also about loss. Not just loss of love, but of friends, illusions, innocence, and youth.

When soft nostalgia is the norm for many ageing rockers, Neil Young’s doggedness is an example to cherish.