Cinema: Last Rites

FILLMORE

Directed by RICHARD T. HEFFRON

Since Woodstock, a frenzied, adoring documentary seems to have been made about every tour and concert in contemporary rock 'n' roll. For last year's Great Medicine Ball Caravan, a movie studio even subsidized a festival in order to film it. Not to be out done, Fillmore treats the closing performances at the Fillmore West as if they were the last rites in the Roman Colosseum before the barbarians came to town.

The Fillmore theaters in New York and San Francisco were rallying points all right, but still something less than the monuments of rock culture that they are...

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