The Love We Make is a documentary of Paul McCartney’s time in New York as he prepares for his performance at the Concert For New York, a concert being held for New York in the wake pf 9/11. McCartney brings Albert Maysles, the man who first documented McCartney and the Beatles as they entered New York for the first time in 1964, to direct. What follows is basically a behind the scenes walkthrough of McCartney’s daily life as he prepares and intermingles with the citizens of New York, celebrities like James Taylor, Bill Clinton, Harrison Ford, and Robert DeNiro. There are snippets of live performances but keep in mind this is not a concert film.

QUALITY:
I perused a few other reviews for this BD release to see what others thought, and for the most part it garnered mostly positive reviews, as far as picture quality goes. I guess I’ll be the first to go the other way and say that the film, aesthetically, is awful. Maysles and Bradley Kaplan decided to film this entire documentary, aside from archive footage, in an ugly grainy black and white film style. If you look at the cover of the BD you’ll see the statue of liberty in an M.C. Escher type black and white dotted motif. Nope, that’s just how the picture looks for almost the entirety if you count even worse looking archive footage taken from news programs and even The Howard Stern Show, which McCartney appeared on. I’m assuming there is some type of art statement that must have been lost on me, but why bother to transfer this film to BD when its film style suggests it would have been better seen on DVD. The only thing I can think of is that it’s a way to utilize a higher grade soundtrack for the snippets of music selections that you find within. All together though, terrible idea for a BD. It's hard to look at as a Blu-Ray selection and, I'll be honest, it was a bit boring.

BONUS FEATURES:
None.