Thursday 31 May 2012

Woodstock (1970)

Woodstock (1970)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066580/
Documentary, History, Music
Michael Wadleigh
Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, The Who, Sha-Na-Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, Crosby Stills & Nash, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane
26 March 1970 (USA)
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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