Film
S&M²: Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
- Director
- Wayne Isham
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 160 mins
Nobody could accuse Metallica of being afraid to experiment. But it’s in the nature of experiments that some of them will fail. You’d have to search long and hard to find anyone who rates their dire Lulu collaboration with the late Lou Reed, for example. But their 1999 performances with the San Francisco Orchestra, with arrangements by the late Michael Kamen, was definitely one of their more successful attempts at branching out.
Twenty years on, they got back together to do it all again with two sold out shows at San Francisco’s 18,000 seat Chase Centre, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and Edwin Outwater. In addition to the highlights from the first concert, they’ve added some new songs written over the last couple of decades, with new orchestral charts by Bruce Coughlin.
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