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Woodstock (film) Woodstock. (film) Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. [6][7] The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh in his directional debut. Seven editors are credited, including Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, and Wadleigh.
Woodstock: Directed by Michael Wadleigh. With Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Sha-Na-Na. Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
- (19K)
- Documentary, History, Music
- Michael Wadleigh
- 1970-03-26
Synopsis. The film records the events of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held for three days near Bethel, New York in August 1969. This features the participating performers and the reactions of residents of the community and of the 400,000 young people who attended. The recordings of the songs "Long Time Gone" and "Wooden Ships" by Crosby ...
Woodstock serves as an important documentary as well as concert film. It tells the story of a festival that starts quite small with an estimated number of 50,000 visitors per day, a wooden stage, little security and almost no parking spots. But the festival is soon overrun by a huge crowd of peace-loving youth who come to party, listen to music and get stoned. What makes this film so special ...
184 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1970. Roger Ebert. May 22, 2005. 7 min read. Few documentaries have captured a time and place more completely, poigantly, and for that matter, entertainingly than Michael Wadleigh's "Woodstock." It has a lot of music in it, photographed with a startling intimacy with the performers, but it's not simply a music movie.
Aug 3, 2019 · Moments after cameraman David Myers finished filming a couple having sex in the tall grass at the Woodstock festival in 1969, he happened upon a middle-aged sanitation worker cleaning out an ...
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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 ...
