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| Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing (Full Screen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Directors: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Actors: Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Martie Maguire, Rick Rubin, George W. Bush
Studio: Weinstein Company
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  165 reviews
Sales Rank: 4976
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 93
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WEID79929D
UPC: 796019799294
EAN: 0796019799294
ASIN: B000KX0IN6
Theatrical Release Date: November 10, 2006
Release Date: February 20, 2007
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Shut Up & Sing finds two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (American Dream) and co-director Cecilia Peck following the lives and career developments of the Dixie Chicks in the wake of singer Natalie Maines' denunciation of the Iraq war and President Bush in 2003. The film returns to the pivotal moment in which Maines, speaking to a London audience, raised opposition to America's invasion of Iraq, resulting in a backlash in America. The Chicks, as one sees, have had little peace of mind since then, banned from country music stations, picketed at concerts, and targeted by death threats. Maines, Martie Maguire, and Emily Robison respond to the extensive and sometimes scary criticism they've faced, though their latest music, including a song called "Not Ready to Make Nice," also speaks for itself. Kopple and Peck spend a lot of time with the band on a human level as well, in homes and dressing rooms and recording studios. The collective--and quite touching--portrait is of three women who wish only the best for one another and back each other's decisions all the way. This is essential viewing for fans of the gifted Kopple as well as the always-against-the-odds Dixie Chicks. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
A documentary on the dixie chicks in the wake of singer natalie maines anti-george w bush statement at a 2003 concert. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 02/05/2008 Starring: Natalie Maines Martie Maguire Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R
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 shut up and sing November 10, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved the film however my experience would have been more enjoyable if I had not made my purchase from Amazon.com. I ordered the movie over a year ago and Amazon.com kept sending me emails delaying the delivery date giving me an option to either cancel my order or keep waiting until it became available. I opted to wait because I really wanted to see the documentary. I probably selected to wait at least 4 times over the course of 14 months before they finally sent me an email telling me that Amazon.com regretted that they were unable to fill my order and that they cancelled my order. So with my order cancelled because Amazon.com said they did not have the DVD I went to Amazon.com pulled up the video purchased what they told me they did not have and finally over a year later I was finally able to see the film.
 Shut Up & Ask October 25, 2008
One of our great challenges as a Democracy has always been the ironic fear of our freedom of speech. One wonders, "Well, if you say you hate me or have an issue with America or something about America, then you don't love or like or need or want or appreciate it." Suffice to say: "leave." Likewise, we have struggled with the notion of critical dissent in the name of the national good. Both of these are the same coin, different sides, and the great reason Freedom of Speech is the FIRST Amendment of our amazing Constitution. It's concepts, challenges, possibilities and difficulties easily translate to any time. It is greatly worth fighting for and we all must be reminded too of the value of challenging it.
Such is the world of Shut Up & Sing, an involving, smart, inclusive musical/celebrity doc about the abrupt tumult surrounding The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines' disdainful remarks about George W. Bush during a 2003 London concert. A mere insulting reference and millions of people, fans and commentators, citizens and families were dramatized and activated into a ferocious communal vengeance, the likes of which few artists or celebrities has suffered. Jane Fonda's outspoken reputation has stayed with her for decades since the Vietnam war, just as she has remained outspoken. Fill in any artist who angers people with their views and you'll get the dynamic that they are too lucky to speak, too famous to have an opinion, have nothing to say because they aren't real, don't know what it's like to be a real American, etc. This is our badge of Speech Reckoning, and it represents our frequent ignorance and polarity as much as our collective pride in active bickering.
We are an opinionated people, we have been raised and taught to speak out and loud, and there is president that ruffling feathers makes for a better bird.
Barbara Kopple, legendary documentarian (Harlan County, U.S.A. and American Dream won Oscars) co-directs and produces Shut Up & Sing with the vitality of a fly with a camera who knows she's in the midst of something juicy, warm and important. Unlike some documentarians, Kopple and co-director/producer Cecilia Peck (famous-liberal -Gregory's daughter) are nowhere to be found; smart enough to know the intimacy of the Dixie Chicks' world, it's variety of children and husbands, managers, musicians, and according members, all aware of the power of their communal securities; a profoundly successful feminine entity that values it's mutual love.
Shut Up & Sing is the kind of doc that would work in school because it begs the question: "What is Freedom of speech?" Is it release from responsibility of what one says or is it possibly threats to one's life and livelihood or somewhere in between.
Texas vs Texas September 24, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A doco of Dixie Chicks female music band cashing on anti-Iraq-war, anti-US-president stance inevitably triggered questions of freedom speech limits and right to express own opinion pro- and against the issue.
More politics than music.
Not Ready to Make Nice September 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After buying a year ago, I finally watched it. And I liked it.
To be fair, I was much more into the mechanics of how they wrote and recorded 'Taking the Long Way' than I was over the 'controversy'. There wasn't enough of that for me.
In retrospect, forgetting the change in the view on the war and approval ratings gone south, the furor over 12 words seems a bit over the top. People heard what they wanted to hear and nothing of what was really said.
And while I defend the right to free speech, on both sides of the conversation, Maines' comments while sincere, they were also light-hearted. It was the responses that were so venomous and out of kilter to the original statement. But I'm ok that the Chicks didn't bend or break to what others told them was "right" - and they stood together.
While always lively, sometimes it is almost too so. Managers, artists, publicists all talking over each other in heated discussions. Sometimes it was a bit much, but it was a stressful time for all involved.
The pseudo-documentary was well done, but I'm ok I didn't go out of my way to see it in a theater. DVD viewing was just fine.
Originally bought it for my girlfriend, but I enjoyed it too August 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good documentary... Much better than I thought it would be. Really gives you a good feel for what they went through after what they said at that fateful concert in London back in 2003. More than anything, it gives you a really good sense of how ignorant and narrow-minded the yammering hordes of mainstream America are. You also get to see some cool behind-the-scenes stuff with regards to their recording process... I had no idea Chad Smith from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's played the drums on one of their albums... etc.
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