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Created between January and September 1971, this docu-film takes us on an intimate journey to Young’s farm in Northern California for the 'Harvest Barn' sessions, to London for an iconic performance with the London Symphony Orchestra and to Nashville where the then 20 something Neil Young worked on various tracks of this signature album. The feature is a fan piece that has never been seen before. Performance and rehearsal content is intertwined into creative storytelling and includes most of the tracks from album Harvest (released in 1972) including "Heart of Gold", "A Man Needs A Maid", "Alabama" and "Old Man".

Genre: Documentary, Music

Original Language: English

Director: Neil Young

Producer: Gary Ward

Release Date (Theaters): Dec 1, 2022  limited

Runtime: 2h 5m

Distributor: Trafalgar Releasing

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Neil Young’s ‘Harvest Time’ Is a Fascinating, if Overlong, Documentary on the Creation of His Most Popular Album

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For all the scrutiny of the Beatles’ session tapes, the Grateful Dead’s concert archives and Prince’s much-vaunted vault of unreleased material, Neil Young is almost undoubtedly the music world’s most obsessive self-documenter.

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Both the album and “Heart of Gold” topped charts across the globe (including the U.S.), and the ensuing fawning and fanfare ultimately led Young to spurn fame and basically intentionally alienate much of his newly found audience, a move that set the defiantly self-directed mold for the next five decades of his ongoing career. Of course, none of that had happened yet in the first nine months of 1971, when Young was recording the album in Nashville, London, New York and the beloved Bay Area ranch where he still spends much of his time, and which in many ways is a co-star of this film.

While much of the footage is fascinating, the admitted absence of a plan comes across in the final product: It’s two full hours of Young rehearsing, recording and hanging out for long stretches of time with the newly formed Stray Gators backing band, along with vignettes of him recording backing vocals with sometime-bandmates Stephen Stills and David Crosby in California and Stills and Graham Nash in New York; working up “A Man Needs a Maid” with the London Symphony Orchestra (Glyn Johns, of “Get Back” fame, appears in several scenes); giving stellar solo performances of “Heart of Gold” and “Old Man”; and working through several songs with the band in the legendary barn at the ranch, surrounded by bales of hay and the dry, dry hills of Northern California, complete with grazing cows. He also performs some contemporaneous songs that didn’t make the album, like “Journey Through the Past” and “Bad Fog of Loneliness” (a 50th anniversary boxed set of the album, due Friday, includes three outtakes and Young’s fantastic 1971 solo concert for the BBC — marking a fifth 1971 solo concert release.)

Also appearing are Young’s partner at the time, actor Carrie Snodgress; musicians Jack Nitzsche (who would later take up with Snodgress and be arrested for threatening her), Tim Drummond, Ben Keith and Kenny Buttrey; managers Elliott Roberts and Ron Stone; photographer Joel Bernstein, roadie Bruce Berry (who would die of a drug overdose within a few months and be immortalized in Young’s song “Tonight’s the Night”); even the old man who inspired “Old Man.” A sobering number of them are now deceased.

We see many of the classic songs from the album come to life, with plenty of closeups on the 25-year-old, stringy-haired Young, who seems impossibly young and earnest, yet still iconic and iconoclastic. Conversely, we see the bro-chemistry between him, Crosby, Stills and Nash; and watch him interact with the unexpectedly hip conductor of a rather fussy-looking London Symphony Orchestra — a reminder of how much of the 1971 world was still, in the parlance of the era, “square.”

On that note, simply seeing the clothes — the flared jeans, patterned shirts, boots and big belt buckles — the (non-) haircuts and the attitudes is a head-spinning throwback: They’re drinking beer in the middle of the day and smoking weed out of some insane contraption (Nitzsche declines twice); at one point Young calls himself a “rich hippie,” which he probably still does. In the Nashville studio, the camera pans across a room in the Nashville studio with dark wood paneling, an electric typewriter and paper datebook on the desk and Rod Stewart’s “Maggie May” playing on the radio — it just doesn’t get more peak 1971 than that. To wit: “I feel more free now than I’ve ever felt before,” Young says. “So it’s groovy, y’know, I can dig it.”

While “Harvest Time” does drag a bit, to be fair, so did “Get Back,” and fans will likely be riveted by the peak moments — and glad, like so many of Young’s other oft-delayed archival projects, that it’s finally seeing the light of day. In the Nashville interview here, the DJ comments on the fact that they’re being filmed and asks if people will be able to see the results in a theater.

“Yeah, I hope so,” Young replies. “Maybe pretty soon.” In typical Shakey fashion, that moment has arrived — 51 years later.

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Neil Young: Harvest Time review - a thrillingly intimate fly-on-the-wall documentary | reviews, news & interviews

Neil young: harvest time review - a thrillingly intimate fly-on-the-wall documentary, warm, celebratory, charming, and fun - was the making of neil young's 'harvest' the making of the singer.

“You’re filmin’ a movie or something – can you explain this?” the radio DJ turns to Neil Young, a laugh underpinning his question and setting the scene: light, jovial.

“We’re just makin’ a film about…” Young pauses for a second. “I dunno, just the things we wanna film… I’m making it like I make an album, sort of… It’s like… I’m cutting it, instead of… so it’s personal, like an album.”

“So some day someone’ll be able to go to a theatre and see it maybe?” the DJ asks.

“Yeah, I hope so, maybe pretty soon,” comes the reply. 

This reasonably edited conversation occurs toward the closing act of  Neil Young: Harvest Time , a documentary released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of arguably the singer-songwriter ’s most celebrated album. Culled from never-seen-before footage shot between January and September 1971, it’s taken more than half a century to see the light of day. Amplified by time and context, Young’s guess of a release “pretty soon” is hilariously off, full of dramatic, laugh-out-loud irony that puts an arm around the viewer, while taking a hit and saying, “Yeah, I KNOW, right?”

All of a sudden, we’re in a studio. Neil with David Crosby to his right, and Stephen Stills to his left. It’s a breathtaking jump cut, and a trick that’s repeated later, in a different studio and with Graham Nash replacing Croz. What shines through both scenes is the friendship, fun, and good humour – and the spine-tingling thrill a three-part harmony can bring to pretty much any party.

The film is strewn with moments like this, moments that make you catch your breath or break out in a broad smile. The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it introduction of Broken Arrow caretaker Louis Avila, the subject of Young’s beautiful bridge across the age divide “Old Man”; the singer relaxing at his ranch, lazily pre-empting, and addressing, concerns about his song “Alabama” before Lynyrd Skynyrd had even heard it; in London, beer in hand, complaining that the London Symphony Orchestra are playing too slow, working to the beat of the conductor’s baton rather than his own cue.

And, of course, there’s enough musical muscle here to keep anyone with ears satisfied. Run-throughs of “Heart of Gold”, “A Man Needs a Maid” (with the aforementioned LSO), “Old Man”, “Heart of Gold”, show songs with charmingly rough character in various stages of refinement.    

But mostly, and perhaps more important,  Neil Young: Harvest Time  is a captivating document of a young man with wealth beyond his imagination whose life has been a whirlwind, giving himself the time and the space to figure out who he is and what he wants to do. Throughout the film, Young is pictured breaking out into a goofy, broad grin: “I feel more free now than I’ve ever felt before,” he says at one point. It’s the sound of a man enjoying life and finding his place – a needle finding its groove.

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Coming to cinemas this week, Neil Young:Harvest Time, a docu-film produced by the man himself, takes viewers on an intimate journey around the making of his legendary album, Harvest.

Whether a fan or not of Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young, the captivating and insightful docu-film Harvest Time is an absolute musical delight to watch.

Celebrating 50 years of Young’s recordings, it brings intriguing unseen footage from studio sessions, a wonderful performance with the London Symphony Orchestra to rehearsals in the barn at his Broken Arrow ranch in California, surrounded by acres of land and mature forestry.

Have you ever seen a grand piano in a dusty old barn? Well you do in this footage and it looks and sounds incredible and not at all out of place in this gem of a film.

The footage, created in 1971 gives a brilliant insight into Young’s musical genius and yet warm unassuming character. The rehearsals in the barn (starting with the wonderful Alabama ) are musically breathtaking, impressive too considering the musicians had only just formed in a matter of days – all obviously enhanced by Young’s genius lyrics, melodies, dulcet vocal tones with a distinctive, beautiful vibrato.

Harvest Time also includes footage of Young discussing his songwriting techniques, which he confesses modestly are less of a process and more of his songs coming to him mainly through visual images that he just writes about. So, so beautifully he ‘doesn’t’ hasten to add.

He chats about this while relaxing on the grass outside and taking a moment to savour the beautiful sounds coming from the barn as his muso pals (‘cats’ as he refers to them) continue to jam. With a smile on his face, it’s evident he feels extremely lucky to hear his gorgeous melodies echoing through the hills.

Other songs featured include Heart of Gold and Old Man, where we actually get to meet the ‘old man’ himself out and about near the ranch. Also, we’re treated to some amazing footage of Young’s collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra, striving to perfect the beautiful song A Man Needs A Maid.

The film highlights Young’s immense talent, his appetite for musical perfection but also that he’s a beautiful soul – how could he not be writing lyrics like those?

One of the highlights is the goose-bump inducing studio footage working out harmonies for Alabama and Words (Between The Lines of Age) with Crosby, Stills & Nash – what an absolute delight to listen to and witness the fun these immensely talented guys have together. The end result is as ever, astounding.

It’s an absolute treat for fans to witness this unseen footage of the making of the iconic album Harvest, and what an achievement for a very young Young, this beautiful long-haired creature in his early 20s, to create that masterpiece. It deserves to be celebrated and there’s no finer way to do that than to share this unseen, enchanting and intimate footage through this incredible two-hour docu-film, Harvest Time.

“This is a big album for me. 50 years ago. I was 24, maybe 23 and this album made a big difference in my life. I played with some great friends and it’s really cool that that this album has lasted so long. I had a great time and now when I listen to it, I think I was really just lucky to be there. I hope you enjoy this story, which is ‘Harvest Time,’ and which talks about everything that happened. And now people all around the world can see it at the movies.” (Neil Young)

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Wonderful film about the making of one of the greatest albums in rock. Neil can’t help himself however and the over-indulgent (and lengthy) jam sessions at the Barn and in Nashville could have been removed (or shortened). A pity too that filming started after the Nashville sessions which produced the likes of Heart of Gold and Old Man, and we don’t see him working his magic on these songs with collaborators like James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt. Despite these flaws I could have watched all night.

I would have traded several minutes of “Words” for just a one full minute of “Harvest”. I enjoyed the film, but I would not count “Words” as the highlight. The recording of “Man Needs a Maid” with the London Symphony Orchestra was one of my highlights. I appreciated his sharing of how it felt to be known by everyone and not to know those that know him. I can understand how that would drive a person to isolate towards their small group of familiar people. I enjoyed the movie, as it brought me back to the days where I searched the used record store for any vinyl record I didn’t currently own.

Just saw it today in the East Village. Amazing movie. To see the process of real song writing and collaboration, not pettiness and autotune, was a breath of fresh air. Crazy that it requires 50 year old footage for that freshness.

My highlights were seeing the Old Man (natch), the young boy who asked better questions than most of todays adult journalists, Neil playing Out on the Weekend” on the banjo, and all the CSN harmonizing.

Funny that the article, when mentioning Neil “relaxing on the grass outside,” leaves out the part that he was lying in a field peppered with dried cow pies. One of which he picks up and rolls around in his hands while talking. Good old Uncle Neil!

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Shot between January and September 1971, the film captures every aspect of the recording of the album in close-up: following Young and his ragtag family of cohorts from the famous sessions conducted in the barn at his bucolic Broken Arrow ranch in Northern California, across the ocean to a grey London for his collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra, musicians separated by a common language as they attempt to capture “ A Man Needs A Maid ”. Finally, it lurches back to Nashville, for further tracking and overdubbing sessions amid a cast of Music City eccentrics.

Steering clear of voiceover narration, the film is an immersive, fly-on-the wall experience – particularly in the barn session sequences. The footage sits the audience right on the plaid-shirted shoulders of the Stray Gators band Young and co-producer Elliot Mazer assembled for the record as they work up tracks like “ Alabama ”, “ Words ” and “ Are You Ready For The Country ” – caught here in rawer, more immediate takes than those featured on the final album.

Memorable moments come thick and fast: Young defining himself as “a rich hippy”… Stray Gators bassist Tim Drummond demonstrating the correct use of an aquarium pump during downtime in Nashville… Young, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash discussing whether their studio is haunted while attempting to nail harmonies on “Words”… glimpses of Young and his then partner Carrie Snodgress huddling together on the sidelines any chance they get, the 1970s sunlight flaring around them.

Watching the film is a poignant experience for Young. “Seeing all those guys,” he says today, referring to the Stray Gators , “none of them are alive. So, y’know, that’s a trip. I’m looking at them and I’m the only one left. There’s a great jam in there, somewhere in the middle of the Harvest barn. It’s very cool hearing that. Very funky and spontaneous. I like things like that. I like the idea of getting this film out and having people see the real story – and the fact that I made the film, instead of someone else doing it.”

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The Harvest Time film features as part of the Harvest 50th-anniversary boxset, alongside the original album, three studio outtakes on CD/7” vinyl, a book of liner notes, and another DVD of Young’s live 1971 solo performance for BBC TV

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Shakey Pictures, Trafalgar Releasing, and Warner Records announced today that “ Neil Young: Harvest Time ” will be presented in movie theaters worldwide on Thursday, December 1 with select encores on Sunday, December 4. Celebrating the 50 th  anniversary of Young’s bestselling album  Harvest , the feature is a never been seen before fan piece including footage from Northern California, London, and Nashville, during its creation. The exclusive cinema event begins with a personal introduction from Young about the film and signature album. View a clip from “Neil Young: Harvest Time”  HERE .

Tickets for “Neil Young: Harvest Time” go on sale beginning Thursday, November 10. Visit  NeilYoungHarvestTime.com  for ticketing and the most up-to-date information about participating theaters. 

Created between January and September 1971, this docu-film takes viewers on an intimate journey to Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California for the “Harvest Barn” sessions, to London for an iconic performance with the London Symphony Orchestra, and to Nashville where the then 20-something Neil Young worked on various tracks of this signature album. Performance and rehearsal content is intertwined into creative storytelling and includes most of the tracks from album  Harvest  (released in 1972) including “Heart of Gold,” “A Man Needs A Maid,” “Alabama,” and “Old Man.”

Young said, “This is a big album for me. 50 years ago. I was 24, maybe 23 and this album made a big difference in my life. I played with some great friends and it’s really cool that that this album has lasted so long. I had a great time and now when I listen to it, I think I was really just lucky to be there. I hope you enjoy this story, which is ‘Harvest Time,’ and which talks about everything that happened. And now people all around the world can see it at the movies.”

The premiere in cinemas of the “Harvest Time” film is in celebration of the release on Dec 2 nd  of the 50 th  Anniversary Edition Box Sets on Vinyl and CD of the beloved  Harves t album; boasting the original album, three studio outtakes on CD/7” vinyl, an unreleased live 1971 BBC solo performance on CD/LP and DVD. Also included in the box sets is a hardbound book and fold-out poster. The vinyl box sets include a lithograph print. Click  HERE  to pre-order/pre-save via The Greedy Hand Store at Neil Young Archives (NYA) and it’s also available at all retail.

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Never-before-seen docu film in cinemas Dec 1st

Neil Young will release Neil Young: Harvest Time, a never-before-seen docu film celebrating the 50th anniversary of his bestselling album,  Harvest.  The film is presented by Shakey Pictures, Trafalgar Releasing, and Warner Records and will run in movie theaters worldwide on Thursday, December 1st with select encores on Sunday, December 4th.

It includes footage from Northern California, London, and Nashville during the signature album’s creation. The exclusive cinema event begins with a personal introduction from Young about the film and album.

Tickets are on sale now at NeilYoungHarvestTime.com .

Created between January and September 1971, this docu film takes viewers on an intimate journey to Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California for the “Harvest Barn” sessions, to London for an iconic performance with the London Symphony Orchestra, and to Nashville where the then 20-something Young worked on various tracks of this signature album. Performance and rehearsal content is intertwined into creative storytelling and includes most of the tracks from album Harvest, released in 1972, including “Heart of Gold,” “A Man Needs A Maid,” “Alabama,” and “Old Man.”

The premiere in cinemas of the Harvest Time film is in celebration of the release on December 2nd of the Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition Box Sets on CD and vinyl, boasting the original album, three studio outtakes on CD/7-inch vinyl, an unreleased live 1971 BBC solo performance on CD/LP and DVD. Also included in the box sets is a hardbound book and fold-out poster. The vinyl box sets include a lithograph print.

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A documentary on the making of Neil Young's most noteworthy album, Harvest. Taking place in the first nine months of 1971, the film covers rehearsals in the "Harvest Barn" on Young's Northern California farm, as well as recording sessions in Nashville. In between, he participates in a concert with the London Symphony Orchestra. All of this is documented and intertwined with creative storytelling, presenting never-before-seen footage.

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NEIL YOUNG: HARVEST TIME is Coming to Cinemas Worldwide

Neil Young: Harvest Time will be presented in movie theaters worldwide on Thursday, December 1 with select encores on Sunday, December 4. 

Shakey Pictures, Trafalgar Releasing, and Reprise Records announced TODAY that Neil Young: Harvest Time will be presented in movie theaters worldwide on Thursday, December 1 with select encores on Sunday, December 4.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Young's bestselling album Harvest, the feature is a never been seen before fan piece including footage from Northern California, London, and Nashville, during its creation. The exclusive cinema event begins with a personal introduction from Young about the film and signature album.

Tickets for Neil Young: Harvest Time go on sale beginning Thursday, November 10. Visit NeilYoungHarvestTime.com for ticketing and the most up-to-date information about participating theaters.

Created between January and September 1971, this docu-film takes viewers on an intimate journey to Young's Broken Arrow Ranch in Northern California for the "Harvest Barn" sessions, to London for an iconic performance with the London Symphony Orchestra, and to Nashville where the then 20-something Neil Young worked on various tracks of this signature album. Performance and rehearsal content is intertwined into creative storytelling and includes most of the tracks from album Harvest (released in 1972) including "Heart of Gold," "A Man Needs A Maid," "Alabama," and "Old Man."

Young said, "This is a big album for me. 50 years ago. I was 24, maybe 23 and this album made a big difference in my life. I played with some great friends, and it's really cool that that this album has lasted so long. I had a great time and now when I listen to it, I think I was really just lucky to be there. I hope you enjoy this story, which is Harvest Time, and which talks about everything that happened. And now people all around the world can see it at the movies."

The premiere in cinemas of the Harvest Time film is in celebration of the release on Dec 2nd of the 50th Anniversary Edition Box Sets on Vinyl and CD of the beloved Harvest album; boasting the original album, three studio outtakes on CD/7" vinyl, an unreleased live 1971 BBC solo performance on CD, LP and DVD. Also included in the box sets is a hardbound book and fold-out poster. The vinyl box sets include a lithograph print. Click HERE to pre-order/pre-save via The Greedy Hand Store at Neil Young Archives ( NYA ) and it's also available at all retail.

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‘The Greatest Hits’ Review: Yes, She Could Turn Back Time.

A high-concept movie about music and grief lacks follow through.

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By Alissa Wilkinson

“The Greatest Hits” literalizes the familiar heartache: You’re driving down the road, radio blaring at full tilt. Suddenly that song comes on, the one that reminds you of your ex, or of a time that was joyous but now is a sadness-tinged memory. Plunged back into that head space, you feel as though you’ve traveled through time. And the longing it prompts can be unbearable.

This is where Harriet (Lucy Boynton) finds herself, except instead of feeling as if she’s moving through time, she is truly hurtling through the fourth dimension. Since having lost her boyfriend, Max (David Corenswet), in a tragic accident, any song Harriet hears attached to memories of him catapults her, quite literally, back to the moment in their relationship when that song was playing. When she leaves the house, she wears noise-canceling headphones to protect against unexpected time travel provoked by radios and errant Spotify shuffles.

At home, though, she spends her nights trying to slip backward. Harriet has become obsessed with trying to return to a moment where she can set the world straight and ensure that Max won’t die, which means, even two years after his death, that she is still “hiding out in her grief,” as another character puts it. In the midst of this, at her grief support group, Harriet meets a nice guy named David (Justin H. Min), who’s dealing with loss of his own.

Ned Benson, who wrote and directed “The Greatest Hits,” has explored this territory before. His previous work, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,” was a trilogy, made up of two films that explored a couple’s grief-stricken, tumultuous relationship from each of their individual perspectives, and a third that combined them. (As the title suggests, music was part of the story, too.) That film felt personal, and so does this one. It earnestly evokes the way grief mires us in memory, making us feel as if our personal timelines are slip-sliding and looping, eternally arrested in the past. Moving forward seems impossible.

But “The Greatest Hits” lacks the imagination of “Eleanor Rigby” and, at times, seems like it might be in the wrong genre. It’s easy to imagine a rom-com version of this movie, since the elements are all there — the hip location (mostly the Silver Lake and Los Feliz neighborhoods of Los Angeles), the meet-cute, the queer best friend (a mainstay of the genre , for better or worse), the crates of vinyl records, the pining, the hot guys, even the chemistry. But this movie lacks the lightness and humor of a rom-com, which might balance out all the dreary moments and make it feel more watchable. The version that exists feels more suited for lovelorn teens just off their first breakup than adults moving through profound loss and sorrow, more acquainted with the ways life can’t just stop when tragedy strikes.

“The Greatest Hits” proceeds slowly and repetitively, which doesn’t have to be a problem: The gentleness of the pace and storytelling gives the cast space to breathe and react to each other, to build relationships that feel reasonably authentic. Similarly, the music choices (which are all over the map both in genre and era) are fun and fresh, lacking the on-the-nose quality that a film with more bang-on choices might have provoked. But as it goes on, the movie begins to feel mired in its own high-concept conceit without space to develop it further. Is there a reason the only music that triggers time travel for Harriet is connected to Max? Are there tunes that throw her back to times she prefers not to remember? Why is it important to recall that she used to be a music producer?

There’s an interesting film dancing around the edges of “The Greatest Hits,” but there’s both too much sentimentality and not enough thought, and that’s too bad. For audiences in search of a good cry, it may still do the job. But for those of us for whom the music-driven time travel experience is still metaphorical, it’s cold comfort, a fantasy with no hope of fulfillment.

The Greatest Hits Rated PG-13 for some language and innuendo, plus conversations about death and grief. Running time: 1 hour 34 minutes. Watch on Hulu.

Alissa Wilkinson is a Times movie critic. She’s been writing about movies since 2005. More about Alissa Wilkinson

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