Product Details

• Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Warren Zevon
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Artemis Records
• DVD Release Date: February 10, 2004
• Run Time: 115 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000V46RM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,754 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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88 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Final Goodbye, January 12, 2004

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Jason C. Garza "The English Major" (Moline, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: VH1 (Inside) Out - Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart (DVD)

For those who were unable to see VH1's documentary of Zevon's work on his final album, "The Wind," will find themselves fortunate that this DVD is being released. While not a concert or a collection of videos, this is a big goodbye for Zevon, his family, friends, and fans.

The DVD follows Zevon's friend and well-known columnist Dave Barry as he spends a few weeks with the ailing rocker. The heart of the "tour" lies in the recording studio, where we see Zevon jamming with Bruce Springsteen and Dwight Yoakam, discussing songs with Ry Cooder and Billy Bob Thornton, chatting with Hunter S. Thompson. Inbetween the various clips are updates on Warren's condition; these are bittersweet reminders that a legend is slowly fading.

The focus here is entirely on "The Wind;" we hear raw clips of "Disorder in the House" (Zevond backed by The Boss" and a closing montage over which "Keep Me in Your Heart" plays, the closing track on Zevon's final album--and his life. It is a musical epitaph which even the most hardened individual will find themselves moved by. Indeed, it is difficult to keep from feeling a twinge of guilt and sadness when watching this; it is a deeply personal insight into the twilight of a musical genius. Yet it does end on a somewhat high note; Zevon's daughter gives birth to twins, naming one of them after her father.

The DVD will feature the entire VH1 special as well as 65 minutes of "bonus footage," which will undoubtedly be footage left on the cutting-room floor and possibly the two videos for "Disorder in the House" and "Keep Me in Your Heart." Any fan of Zevon will find this an essential part of their library.

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very touching. No "poor pitiful me" on this., March 8, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: VH1 (Inside) Out - Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart (DVD)

This VH1 documentary is layered with interviews with Warren, family, and his friends during his last year. The better of these clips was when Warren was discussing his philosophy and he tells Letterman "enjoy every sandwich." The documentary has a brief biography, which one would have hoped would have been longer. There is no "feel sorry for me" on this, it just shows a man facing death with his friends and family, trying to record his music as an outlet for his feelings. In the DVD Warren states that you write music because you want to share what you are feeling, and I think Warren on "The Wind" and this DVD does that very well. Do not expect a "farewell speech," Warren has no interest. Rather he is just a man who feels lucky to have lived to 55, and wished he could have lived longer. The Vodka drinker in the 1970's and the later family man in the 1980's goes about life with the same energy he always has during the recording of "The Wind." At the end of this, I wondered if I could have been as brave as Warren to face the world with humor in the face on my own mortality.

Also interviewed and featured is Warren's children, friends, clips with Warren on Letterman, Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder, Don Henley, Tom Petty, Bruce Singsteen, Billy Bob Thronton, Joe Walsh, and Dwight Yoakam.

Besides the extended version of the VH1 Inside Out, there is:

-An hour of bonus footage
-"Keep me in your heart" music video
-"Disorder in tbe house" music video
-Bonus clips from the VH1 Special (showing Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen, ect. recording with Warren)
-Warren's home videos

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dirty Life And Times, February 22, 2004

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Mike King "Mike Vegas King" (Taunton, MA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: VH1 (Inside) Out - Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart (DVD)

VH1 broadcast an outstanding documentary about Warren Zevon making his album "The Wind" while he was terminally ill. It's great to finally have that documentary available on DVD, but the additional footage is a bit disappointing. I was hoping they would show more of Warren's last appearance on the David Letterman show, and include a complete performance of at least one song from that, but they didn't. Also, it was hard to hear the interviewer in some of the bonus interview footage. On the plus side, the music videos for the songs "Keep Me In Your Heart" and "Disorder In The House" are excellent. It's also a treat to watch Bruce Springsteen playing all of his guitar part, including two sizzling solos, for the song "Disorder In The House," while Warren watches in amazement. Warren Zevon touched a lot of lives and made a lot of famous friends. Several of them made guest appearances on his last album, including Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder, Don Henley, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh and the aforementioned Bruce Springsteen. My hope is that their experience of working with Warren will motivate them and other great musicians to participate in a tribute album to Warren Zevon.