Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse

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Berlin
Lou reeds berlin.jpg
Original film poster
Directed by Julian Schnabel
Produced byJon Kilik
Tom Sarig
Starring Lou Reed
Emmanuelle Seigner
Cinematography Ellen Kuras
Edited byBenjamin Flaherty
Music byLou Reed
Distributed by Third Rail Releasing
Release dates
  • September 4, 2007 (2007-09-04)(Venice Film Festival)
  • October 7, 2008 (2008-10-07)(United States)
Running time
81 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$114,860 [1]
Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
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Live album by
ReleasedNovember 4, 2008
RecordedDecember 15–16, 2006
Genre Rock
Length79:30
Label Matador Records
Producer Bob Ezrin, Hal Willner
Lou Reed chronology
Hudson River Wind Meditations
(2007)
Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
(2008)
The Creation of the Universe
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 70/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Spectrum Culture(3.5/5.0) [5]
Pitchfork Media (7.2/10) [6]

Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse is a concert film and live album by Lou Reed released in 2008. The concert film was directed by Julian Schnabel, live at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn during five nights in December 2006. Background shots of the characters Jim and Caroline were done by Lola Schnabel.

Contents

The Berlin tour was the first time Lou Reed had played the full album live in over 30 years, after the original album was a critical and commercial disappointment (in spite of it being a top 10 album hitting #7 in the UK and going Silver). Individual songs had been played, but not the entire album. [7]

The concert film and album both feature three non- Berlin songs as an encore, "Candy Says", "Rock Minuet" and "Sweet Jane".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Lou Reed

  1. "Intro" – 1:51
  2. "Berlin" – 2:34
  3. "Lady Day" – 4:12
  4. "Men of Good Fortune" – 6:35
  5. "Caroline Says (I)" – 4:31
  6. "How Do You Think It Feels?" – 5:37
  7. "Oh, Jim" – 8:16
  8. "Caroline Says (II)" – 4:33
  9. "The Kids" – 8:08
  10. "The Bed" – 5:59
  11. "Sad Song" – 8:21
  12. "Candy Says" – 6:04
  13. "Rock Minuet" – 7:18
  14. "Sweet Jane" – 5:31

Personnel

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