Movie review: All This Time by Sting
I was in the Dayton Metro Library’s music area late 2001/early 2002, and I heard this jazzy album that sounded like music from Sting. Asking the librarian, I learned it was Sting’s latest album, “All This Time,” which was recorded during a live concert at Sting’s home in Tuscany, Italy, the evening of September 11, 2001. I checked out the CD and enjoyed it immensely.
I’ve been going through a number of music DVDs in my Netflix queue, from U2: Pop Mart: Live from Mexico City, Cheap Trick‘s From Tokyo to You, Michael Jackson‘s This Is It, and others. I saw this one from Sting come up as a suggested one. Recalling what I’d heard about the story from listening to the CD many years ago, I had it shipped to me, and I recently watched it.
Movie Review – Sting: All This Time
Sting assembled his band together at his home, along with the film crew, and others, two weeks before the concert was to occur. He and the band re-invented the songs that many fans are familiar with.
One of many things that struck me is something that Dominic Miller, Sting’s guitarist said:
“Pressure is like a drug.”
The band was under pressure to get all the songs together – some of them for the very first time – in under 2 weeks. That got me thinking about the pressure I’ve often felt at work. Re-thinking, mainly – about how I can use pressure to bring out my best.
I enjoy watching the Special Features of DVDs before the feature presentation, because I’m interested in getting the back story. ”All This Time” contains documentary as well as music from the concert.
I first went to the scene in the documentary entitled “September 11, 2001″. It was moving to see the band’s reactions to the events that took place. After having a wonderful, celebratory dress rehearsal the night before, the terrorist attacks took the wind out of them, as it did for all of us. Yet the band decided that they needed to do the concert anyway. Not the same concert they had planned, but one that resonated well with those in attendance and those of us who watch it.
The DVD menus are set up so that, if you want to just watch the documentary, you can do that. If you want to just watch the concert, you can do that. If you want to see the set list for the concert – the specific songs that Sting and his band played at the concert – well, you can do that, too. Playthe entire program, though, get treated to the documentary of the events leading up to and including the concert.
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