2016 Ride 'Em On Down




The Rolling Stones 'Ride ‘Em On Down' by Francois Rousselet
By Luke Bather | 20161202

The Rolling Stones make a triumphant return to the world of music video with the help of Francois Rousselet in the high-octane Ride 'Em On Down.

Starring Kristen Stewart as a lone driver on the beautiful, golden, yet eerily deserted streets of LA, she joyrides a Ford Mustang through a world that seems idyllic at first, until it presents us with bizarre hints that all is not as it seems. Is Stewart joyriding through a post-apocalyptic wasteland? Well that's up to you to figure out.

The whole video was shot on 35mm by Newton Thomas Sigel, ASC. Famed for his work on films like Drive, which certainly came in useful here - creating a golden cinematic landscape with bursts of contrasting blue tearing through the scenery.
Credits
Director: Francois Rousselet
Producer: Natalie Arnett
Production Company : Riff Raff Films www.promonews.tv/profiles/riff-raff-films
Executive Producer: Matthew Fone
1st AD: George Nessis
Director of Photography: Newton Thomas Sigel
Gaffer: John English
Art Director: JC Molina
Kristen Stewart Is Too Cool For Life In The Rolling Stones’ Vid For ‘Ride ‘Em On Down’
By Salg, Crome Yellow | 20161202
The Rolling Stones released an album today called Blue & Lonesome, but the real treat is this video for “Ride ‘Em On Down”, which features national treasure Kristen Stewart racing around DTLA in a light blue Mustang. The song ain’t bad, but it’s Stewart’s ‘tude that anchors the entire thing, proving that yes, she’s way cooler than any of us will ever be.
Kristen Stewart is Bad to the Bone in Rolling Stones' 'Ride 'Em On Down'
By Gil Kaufman, Billboard | 20161202
Kristen Stewart was born to be bad in the new clip for the Rolling Stones' "Ride 'Em on Down." The actress slips into the guise of a classic video vixen for the classic rockers' cover of Eddie Taylor's blues standard, which is pretty much just her, the bare-bones blues boogie and a '65 Mustang ripping up the streets of L.A.

The song from the group's new all-covers album Blue & Lonesome (out Dec. 2), is as stripped down as the story of the video, which is basically: Kristin goes for a ride in her blue Mustang, she licks a blue lollipop, dances seductively at a gas station, gets pulled over by a sexy cop and then races through an L.A. River culvert where she encounters a zebra and does some sweet spin-outs in the water. Any questions?
Watch Kristen Stewart Star in the Rolling Stones’ New Video for “Ride 'Em On Down”
By Noah Yoo and Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork | 20161202
Directed by Francois Rousselet, the video stars Kristen Stewart (Twilight, Still Alice) as its lollipop-sucking heroine, tearing up Los Angeles with some extremely illegal driving maneuvers.
Watch Kristen Stewart joyride in new Rolling Stones video for ‘Ride ‘Em On Down’
By Luke Morgan Britton, NME | 20161202
“It didn’t take much more than a few words to get me amped on the idea. The Stones. A 65 Mustang. Alone in Los Angeles. And the shoot was just as dreamy as the idea. We tore LA apart in a day and we had one hell of a soundtrack.”
Watch: Kristen Stewart Blazes Through L.A. in Video for the Rolling Stones’ “Ride ‘Em on Down”
By Nick Newman, The Film Stage | 20161202
The Rolling Stones release Blue & Lonesome, their first album in eleven years, today, and this occasion is marked well: with a music video in which Kristen Stewart barrels a Mustang GT down Los Angeles’ abandoned streets and waterways while rocking out to “Ride ‘Em on Down,” the band’s cover of an Eddie Taylor tune. The shot-in-two-days, François Rousselet-directed effort is quick, sunny, sexy, a bit dumb in a way that’s plenty affable, and wisely favors immediacy over coherency.
2016 Ride 'Em On Down

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