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U2-From the Sky Down

2, U (Actor), Ono, B (Actor), Guggenheim, Davis (Director) Rated:
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Format: DVD
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
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Genre Romance
Format Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Multiple Formats
Contributor Clayton, Adam, Ede, The, Jr, Larry Mullen, 2, U, Guggenheim, Davis, Ono, B
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 16 minutes

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Documentary about the making of U2's album 'Achtung Baby' - the album, released in 1991, which marked a seminal moment in the career of U2. Having followed the breakthrough success of 'The Joshua Tree' with the difficult and much-criticised 'Rattle and Hum', the band were at a crossroads. The sessions for the album were riddled with conflict, with the band even toying with the idea of breaking up. However, an act of joint inspiration saved the album and convinced the group to continue. Director Davis Guggenheim revisits the story of the album's making with the aid of archive footage and interviews with the band.

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It is, quite simply, one of the most transcendent close-up looks at the process of creating rock & roll I've ever seen. --Entertainment Weekly

Davis Guggenheim's making-of-the-album docu From the Sky Down takes an enjoyably novel approach to rock stars known for their fine-tuned products, focusing on the awkwardly embryonic growth of artistic and interpersonal elements that resulted in a classic disc --Variety

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 16:9
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ G (General Audience)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Guggenheim, Davis
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, NTSC, Widescreen, Multiple Formats
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 16 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 24, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ 2, U, Ono, B, Ede, The, Clayton, Adam, Jr, Larry Mullen
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, Portuguese
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (PCM), English (DTS 5.1)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Uni Dist Corp (Music)
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005SD25WA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 153 ratings

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  • Johnny Case
    5.0 out of 5 stars The crescendo of the U2 story.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2014
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    Years down the road when U2 have since retired from rock and roll this is the part of their story that will be told most often. Achtung Baby is U2's seminal work and it is covered in this documentary by Davis Guggenheim. The documentary includes interviews with the band members, their manager Paul McGuinness, and producers Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, as well as engineers like Mark Flood Ellis. Most of the people who had a hand in making Achtung Baby are interviewed for this documentary. Also included are acoustic versions of So Cruel, Love is Blindness, and The Fly. The documentary revisits the time the band spent in Berlin and frustrations that nearly overcame them in Hansa Studios. But as if in the eye of the storm, they stumbled onto One which gave them confidence in their new direction as a group. This was the climax for U2, it redefined who they were and showed them they could reinvent their sound and image.

    The documentary also covers the years leading up to Achtung Baby, which includes the Joshua Tree tour and the making of Rattle and Hum. In the interviews the band reveal why they felt they needed to make such a drastic change which nearly lead to the band breaking up. This documentary shows the band as simultaneously vulnerable and brilliant and shows why they always seem to be pushing into new territory and anticipates the further push into Zooropa and Pop. This documentary is particularly useful for younger U2 fans who may not have been around to see these years firsthand. But I believe all U2 fans would like this documentary, even the ones who don't like the U2 of the 90's because I think this would help them understand why U2 changed so drastically. Even so I think the extra acoustic version of the songs are worth the price of the dvd.
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  • Joseph Pratt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Item for a Great Price!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023
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    Great Item for a Great Price!
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  • Vencent Dorff
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must-see music documentary
    Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2021
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    One of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. A lot of great footage of U2 from the 80s and 90s. A great exploration of the making of Achtung Baby and what it took U2 to get there.
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  • FlowerTree
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent buy
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2014
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    U2 is one of my favorite groups and this documentary is very entertaining. It shows the group's reflection on their time making the album "Achtung Baby" and the struggles they faced as a group, and in moving on to newer material. It also shows how the song "One" came together, very organically, and it was neat to watch Bono explain his artistic process. I bought one for myself and one for my dad after seeing it on HBO.
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  • Jason Jarvis
    4.0 out of 5 stars I felt like it could have done with a little more music ...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2015
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    I felt like it could have done with a little more music of the making of AB and a little less modern blathering about it. But the quality of the presentation is great and a few choice scenes of the band actually working on the music before it's finalized are great.
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  • Jonathan Dobosz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buy This!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2019
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    The best documentary I've seen about the band, and I have pretty much seen them all.
    As a lifelong fan of U2, this is an essential item.
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  • Michelle C
    5.0 out of 5 stars Stellar Rockumentary
    Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2015
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    This amazing documentary tells the back story of the making of Achtung Baby and chronicles Bono's usual method of song writing. Much of it takes place in Berlin when the band was experimenting with the lastest advances in industrial sound and technology. This is a stellar rockumentary.
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  • Isildur
    3.0 out of 5 stars I expected more...
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2013
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    Achtung baby is my all time favorite U2 album. I consider it to be of great influence in what would later became my musical taste. At that time I was only 12 and I remember as if it were yesterday hearing Misterious ways and finding out for the first time what the best band in the world sounded like. I bought this 'cause I was eager to know as much details of the making of this album as I could, but the director went to a different direction, I guess, by showing more how the album redefine the band to what it is until know.
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  • tincam06
    5.0 out of 5 stars Top!
    Reviewed in Belgium on October 21, 2024
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    Super film pour tous les fans de U2 et de l’album Achtung Baby!
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  • Cliente Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars La straordinaria storia di quattro amici
    Reviewed in Italy on October 27, 2018
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    Più che qualsiasi altro Dvd degli U2, questo è senz'altro quello dal quale emerge il racconto più sincero di quattro amici che si sono confrontati con i propri limiti e li hanno superati, con non poche difficoltà, in nome dell'unità del gruppo.
    Una grande lezione d'amore e di musica.
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  • Josef Kreitzer
    5.0 out of 5 stars für einen FAN...
    Reviewed in Germany on March 3, 2014
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    unverzichtbar; jedoch eine Auskopplung aus ihrer SONDERVERÖFFENTLICHUNG "Achtung Baby" - diese Story ist als Package CD bereits dort mit dabei; aber wer nicht alles haben will, kann hier die Entstehung des Songs "ONE" und die Weitereintwicklung der Band mitverfolgen; ...für einen FAN: unverzichtbar
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  • Lisa
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you're not a U2 fan "From the Sky Down" may change your mind.
    Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2012
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    From The Sky Down is a stunning documentry. I have been a fan of U2 from the start and just when I thought I knew it all... Listening to Bono talk about how he writes a song was a light bulb moment for me for example. I watched this doc 3 times in a row when I received it. I highly recommend this doc. to anyone who loves music and is interested in the artisitic process.
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  • Inger Jensen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Back in time
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2013
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    This documentary took me back in time. I have followed U2's career since I was a little girl when my older brother was given "Boy" as a casette tape for Christmas in 1980. The film was very interesting as it gave the viewer some sort of insight in the making of Achtung Baby and the difficulties the band was going through at the time. Maybe that's why I consider Achtung Baby their "darkest" album. And maybe, the most beautiful one in many ways...(no, I am not forgetting The Unforgettable Fire and/or The Joshua Tree:-))
    I have just received U22 today - a cool 2 cd set with clear crisp sound even though it's live recordings (from the 360 tour)- I love it! Somehow "From The Sky Down and U22 have made me re-discover U2 and I will definately go and see them again next time they come around even if they don't come to Denmark - I've travelled elsewhere to see them before.
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