The Rolling Stones play two nights at New York's Beacon Theatre in 2006, and Martin Scorsese films the show with a crew that includes cinematographer Robert Richardson and a small army of camera operators chasing Mick Jagger around the stage. The concert doubles as a benefit tied to Bill Clinton's birthday, and the film cuts between the performance and black-and-white archival clips of the band from the 1960s onward, interviews where Jagger and Keith Richards needle each other over set lists and money. Guest musicians sit in: Jack White trades verses with Jagger, Christina Aguilera duets on "Live with Me," and Buddy Guy joins for a blues number. The setlist runs through "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Brown Sugar," and "Sympathy for the Devil," shot in tight, restless framing that keeps the camera almost as close to the band as the front row is. Scorsese lets the archival material do the history and keeps the present-day footage entirely on the stage, so the film reads less as biography than as one long, closely watched night of a band still working at full volume decades in.