| The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights [Blu-ray] | ![The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MDhr7JXGL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Emmett Malloy
Actor: The White Stripes
Studio: WEA/Reprise
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 16,744
Format: Color, Dolby
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 075993998429
UPC: 075993998429
EAN: 0075993998429
ASIN: B0035G1K7S
Theatrical Release Date: 2010
Release Date: March 16, 2010
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Product Description
Live performances, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews document the White Stripes' extensive 2007 tour of all 13 provinces and territories of Ca
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 The White Stripes are back! March 16, 2010
S. Zietz
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
Being a fan of The White Stripes, I expected this documentary to be outstanding already. But while watching it, I can only describe it as an epic rock-doc. Emmett Malloy brings that power of Jack and Meg at an all time high, with concert footage, interviews, traveling, and a deeper look into what makes The White Stripes a true savior of garage rock. It also makes Canada look seventeen times better too!
The Stripes DVD You've Been Waiting For March 22, 2010
Hayden Tank (WA USA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
This video is an adventure. It's the second White Stripes live DVD, following the concert-only Under Blackpool Lights. This DVD, however, is more of a documentary with live shows thrown in, rather than a concert DVD.
For those unfamiliar with the Stripes, they are a Detroit-based duo of Jack and Meg White (whom Jack presents as brother/sister though they were actually married AND divorced before their second album was released). Jack loves novelties and is obsessed with the number 3, and the band's motif of red, white, and black. If you are a fan of most types of rock, you will love them (or at least some of their assorted songs, there's at least one for everyone). I watched this with my parents (my mom loves Elvis and my dad is a Zeppelin fan), and immediately afterward they wanted me to add the White Stripes to their computers/iPods.
The movie follows the band as they tour each Canadian province and play shows, not only in concert halls, but in parks, on boats, on buses, in schools, and with native Canadians. It gives you a look into the day-to-day of Jack and Meg, and what their ambitions for the band and themselves are as far as the tour goes; Jack also gives great insight into what direction he follows and what creative process he uses for the band. Meg even talks, and they talk about why she never talks, to some laughs for those of us who know Meg as a shy, rarely-interviewed introvert. Interspersed as well are the novelty concerts that are paired with each major show, which show really not the novelty of each show but of Jack and Meg themselves, two oddballs with an idea that a band can be creative within the confines of an idea and a motif, and to explore this motif to its limit.
Now, on to the concerts themselves: blown away. Jack's live shows are heartfelt performances, and he plays to each different audience as if it were a group of his closest friends, knowing exactly what songs to play, including the fa- favorite B-Side cover version of Dolly Parton's "Jolene," which always seems so passionate (even though it's told from the point of view of a woman). Each song is a concert-ready version of its album counterpart, generally not played the same way ("Fell In Love With A Girl" uses chords strummed individually with little distortion, as opposed to the ever-popular studio version), and you can see that they work to make each show special. They play without a set list, and so it's more of a jam session of your favorite White Stripes songs. When Jack plays the B-Side Black Jack Davey in a park with Meg on the tambourine, giving very little or no notice that they were playing there, it conjures images of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. It's those small town where maybe they've never even heard anything the Stripes have done, only in name do they know them, maybe a rumor of their tour of Canada, but you can tell the people know something special is happening, and in each town a crowd gathers that is very substantial for how small the town itself is.
By the end of the tour, you can see why they canceled their U.S. tour: they seem very weary and stressed out. And when the video ends with Meg crying as Jack plays piano and sings "White Moon", you can tell they've been stretched thin, but it seems like they loved the journey, and you will, too.
The Best The White Stripes Have To Offer April 5, 2010
T. R. Mielke (Canton,MI)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would have to sat this is one of the best documentaries of a rock and roll group out there. You learn not only what drives Jack White's muse but learn that the "White Stripes" really care about their fans. A true artist gives back to their fans the best they have to offer. The White Stripes do just that. We see how close Jack and Meg White are as a musical team. They play country, folk, pop, blues and rock and roll. The range of Jack's talent was more than I realized. He plays acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, piano and organ. Meg plays drums and piano and even sings. They play free concerts in each of the towns in Canada on their tour. In pool halls, bowling alleys,on boats and town centers. They prove by their example that rock and roll can heal and uplift people's everyday lives. This is a five star disc if I ever saw one.
Great value March 18, 2010
E. Perkins
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I am a big fan of the White Stripes. I ordered the box set that had this video in it and it is amazing. I'll limit this review to the blu-ray though.
The White Stripes did a tour of every province in Canada in 2007 and this is the behind the scenes look at it. You get to see Jack and Meg do shows in bowling alleys, on the back of a small boat, on a bus, and many other random places they chose to do shows last second. It also has footage of the bigger shows they did on the tour including the 10th anniversary show in Nova Scotia.
The concert footage is fantastic and sound is good considering some of the environments they were working in. But, where this video really shines is the behind the scenes footage. Jack and Meg are interviewed and there are many scenes of them just taking it easy and having fun together. It's really nice to see two artists who are very private interact with one another.
I highly recommend this for any Stripes fan.
White Stripes--Always In Tune March 24, 2010
carol irvin (United States)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Jack White is an outsize musical talent. He does it all, plays everything, sings, composes words and music, produces. His first and most enduring musical act is the White Stripes with his ex wife Meg White. Meg is not as big a talent as he is but what some people miss is that the two of them are incredibly in tune with one another. This of course means that the two of them are in tune every single second making music together, either in the studio or on stage. This is very, very unusual. Most of these bands are only grudgingly together and snipe at one another as to whose ego should be stroked the most. These two are not like that. They made this movie after Icky Thump as they played across Canada. I've listened to Jack play with his other bands. He is excellent with them too but I don't think he will ever find another band mate who is as in tune with him as this one. The two of them treat one another as equal partners wherever they are too, backstage, on stage, traveling. They often stated they were brother and sister before they were outed as ex spouses. That would actually be easy to believe as well. They are an extraordinary act and to see them move across Canada as people and performers is a wonderful experience. They play all venues, small and large, in bowling alleys, with Inuit tribes, on the water. I must confess that when I was just listening to the White Stripes at first, it never dawned on me that they were just two people. It is borne out in this movie that two people are just plenty to put on one heck of a musical show.
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