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Woodstock

United States

1970

184 Min
Color
2.21:1
English
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DIR Michael Wadleigh

PROD Bob Maurice

SCR Michael Wadleigh

DP Malcolm Hart, Don Lenzer, Michael Margetts, David Myers, Richard Pearce, Michael Wadleigh, Al Wertheimer

CAST Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Cocker, Carlos Santana, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, John Sebastian, Grace Slick

ED Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Hubert C. de la Bouillerie, Jere Huggins, Stanley Warnow

Toronto (TIFF In Concert)

Synopsis

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. —IMDb

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4Oct12

gotta see this very soon.

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（☯）

10Jun12

"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

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Sean

7Aug11

It's one of my favourite films of all time, such a great look at an amazing concert that I totally wished I went to. Amazing performances from the bands and a nice look at what was going on there in the audience.

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Mike A.

5May11

Demotic and grand, both in radical proportions. Makes the idea of community glorious without falsely inflating it. It's the most persuasive statement of humanism I've seen, and the argument is in every anarchic juxtaposition, every bustling crowd shot. On the big screen you can see the gradations of light on Richie Havens' guitar frets!

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Woodstock

By Adam Suraf on July 30, 2010

One of the great long movies of all time, Michael Wadleigh’s culturally important four hour epic dissects the three day music festival in upstate New York and comes out, after miles and miles of edited…  read review

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