Woodstock
1970 Directed by Michael Wadleigh
Synopsis
3 days of peace, music...and love.
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.
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Directors cut, 225 minutes long. After the first five minutes this length is so unintimidating that in fact I wouldn't have minded if it had said 20 hours. Such a flow of electricity and tranquility that was an absolute pleasure to marvel at. The hopeful aesthetic of beautiful people dancing slowly in hazy filters and permanent sunshine in the middle of empty fields and empty houses whilst music flows through every facet is a daydream. But not empty for long. There is a certain aspect that you need to get past during this film and that is jealousy. Look at all that fun I'm not having. All the festivals I've been to now look like complete shit. You see in…
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Best documentary I've seen so far. It has such great footage and material. It's amazing to see and almost feel the experience that was Woodstock. Also, its editing was impressing. And of course, the musical performances, were all incredible. 3 hours? To me it seemed less.
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Few films (if any) have made as big an impact on my life than WOODSTOCK, which I first saw on cable TV when I was probably 12 years old. Since that time, I have watched WOOSTOCK on numerous occasions over the past 27 years or so...even getting the opportunity to see the movie on the big screen twice in 1994 (for the 25th Anniversary).
The version I saw in '94 was a new "Director's Cut"...clocking in over 3 1/2 hours, adding some amazing Jimi Hendrix footage, in addition to footage of performers who were originally cut out of the movie when it was first released in 1970...specifically: Canned Heat, The Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin. The version I saw at…
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Directors cut, 225 minutes long. After the first five minutes this length is so unintimidating that in fact I wouldn't have minded if it had said 20 hours. Such a flow of electricity and tranquility that was an absolute pleasure to marvel at. The hopeful aesthetic of beautiful people dancing slowly in hazy filters and permanent sunshine in the middle of empty fields and empty houses whilst music flows through every facet is a daydream. But not empty for long. There is a certain aspect that you need to get past during this film and that is jealousy. Look at all that fun I'm not having. All the festivals I've been to now look like complete shit. You see in…
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far out man.
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Best documentary I've seen so far. It has such great footage and material. It's amazing to see and almost feel the experience that was Woodstock. Also, its editing was impressing. And of course, the musical performances, were all incredible. 3 hours? To me it seemed less.
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a snapshot on 1960's american youth culture, a time capsule of one of the music world biggest events with a masterful editing of a variety of diverse audiovisual sources.
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Neat little time capsule.
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A nice glimpse in to what life was like at the three day festival.
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Not enough music and much too much talk in this overlong documentary.
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Absolut sehenswerte Reportage über das Festival überhaupt.
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Few films (if any) have made as big an impact on my life than WOODSTOCK, which I first saw on cable TV when I was probably 12 years old. Since that time, I have watched WOOSTOCK on numerous occasions over the past 27 years or so...even getting the opportunity to see the movie on the big screen twice in 1994 (for the 25th Anniversary).
The version I saw in '94 was a new "Director's Cut"...clocking in over 3 1/2 hours, adding some amazing Jimi Hendrix footage, in addition to footage of performers who were originally cut out of the movie when it was first released in 1970...specifically: Canned Heat, The Jefferson Airplane, and Janis Joplin. The version I saw at…