- This musical documentary covers the three-day 1969 music festival on the property of Max Yasger’s farm that symbolized the late 1960s in terms of musical, social and political ideology of the era. American audiences are introduced to Ten Years After, featuring guitar great Alvin Lee. Jimi Hendix, The Who and Joe Cocker give riveting performances. As naked flower children romp, the New York freeway
DescriptionStudio product: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/09/2009Amazon. comThe three-day festival of music at Woodstock in 1969 has been a key event in the peace movement in 1960, and this concert film history is the definitive account of this point, the history of rock & roll. It is more a chronicle of the hippie movement, however, is a film of genuine historical and social importance, capturing the spirit of America in transition, in the Vietnam War was at its peak and the antiwar protest was fully expressed through the liberating music of the era. With a brilliant crew at his disposal (including a young editor named Martin Scorsese), director Michael Wadleigh worked with over 300 hours of footage to create his original cut 225-minute director, who was cut by 40 minutes for the film’s release in 1970. Eight previously edited segments were restored in 1994, and the director’s original Woodstock is now the version most commonly available on videotape and DVD. The film has just won the Oscar for best documentary, and it is still an astonishing achievement. Abundant images taken in the massive crowd ( “half a million men”) expresses the human heart of the event, from skinny-dipping hippies to accidental overdoses, climatic hazards, childbirth midconcert, and the dreamer (or just plain huge) reflections of the festive participants. Then of course there is music – a nonstop parade of rock & roll of the greatest performers of the day, including Crosby, Stills and Nash, Canned Heat, The Who, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Sly & The Family Stone, Santana, and many more. Watch this ambitious film, as the saying goes, is the next best thing to be there – it’s a time travel trip to this once in a life event. – Jeff ShannonProduct Description1969 was a year unlike any other. The man put his foot on the Moon. The Mets New York won the World Series against all odds. And for three days in the rural town of Bethel, New York, half a million people living in the most critical hours of their generation, a concert unprecedented in scope and influence, a gathering of people from all walks of life with one common goal: peace and music. They called Woodstock. A year later, a landmark Oscar ®-winning documentary captured the essence of music , electrical performance, and experience of those who lived it. Newly Remastered, the film features performances by legendary 17 best selling artists. Bonus content includes: • The new historical museum in Bethel Woods: The Story of the Sixties & Woodstock. Stills Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace Music & Director’s Cut
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It’s “R” rated, and I’m not a prude, but the “F” word has been said about 15 times past the point of being an oath efficace.Sinon, I think the editing was quite poor and do not keep my attention. Rating: 1 / 5
The first thing to note is one of the greatest ironies of the 60s: that Sha Na Na — the favorite whipping boys of 70′s bashers/60 ‘s nostalgic (for all intents and purpouse a single ), you know, one of the villians Eddie Vedder intended to invoke in his sentinous Rant “Against The 70′s” — actually appeared in the festival o ‘peace, love n flowers (and just to push the middle finger to all chauavinists are baby boomers, has a pretty decent performance Damm) “The second thing is something that commiepinko pro-feminist dude just gotta ask if this would be the height of comittment the cons-culture to peace, love, social justice, yaddayaddayadda — So where are the women? Answer — by Joan Baez and Janis Joplin, the only woman here have shown, quite revealing in a section of the B-side of this 2-DVD side, AS “The Body Beautiful.” As a feminist writer, said shortly after Altamont: “Women at Woodstock, we have a service industry.” That being said, there actually had a few performances at the height of all the “Woodstock Nation” hype. First there was the return of a Joan Baez song on labor union organizer Joe Hill (whose work activism class most probably went over the heads of 90% of the upper middle class citizens WN), the Who’s “See Me, Feel Me” and cover of “Summertime Blues,” Arlo Guthrie’s “Coming Into Los Angeles” (which now, after looked MIAMI VICE, I do understand what “key” meant in context — yup, this is a drug – probably pot — smuggeler), Country Joe The Fish & “Feel Like I’m Fixin ‘to Die Rag, “a song that has gained new realavence George Dubya Shrub so-called” war against terrorism “(subistiute” Afghanistan “for” Vietnam “and you’ll see what I mean). In Beyond that, however, all history proves it — may indeed we must return to the garden, but (as Rapestock 99 so clearly demonstrated) Woodstock did not cut. Rating: 3 / 5
I expected a music DVD, not a history of Woodstock. This was advertised as having Creedence Clearwater Revival, they were not on this movie. Rating: 1 / 5
I look at Woodstock on my old VHS tape I recorded years ago. This is not the best quality, but I love it. There is a beauty on the way to Woodstock, a feeling which can not be recreated. It is sad to think people buy the DVD will be hearing “fixed” the music of Woodstock. It will take away from the sensation of how it was. Please leave it. It stands on its own as a masterpiece. Some things should not be changed. Rating: 2 / 5
Can not wait to get this in the mail. The love of literature and it resembles a huge box. Rating: 5 / 5